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It has been three decades since religion has gone "public." The Islamic Revolution in Iran, the Nicaraguan Revolution, and the establishment of the Moral Majority in the United States, all of which occurred in 1979, signified the "return of religion from exile." The return of re…

This dissertation analyzes the transformation of Soviet secular culture into a resource for post-Soviet religiosity, as an example of the relationship between secular and religious spheres. Based on archival research on Khrushchev- and Brezhnev-era atheist propaganda and ethnogr…