ABSTRACT
Post-communist Russia is in the process of remaking, with religion playing a considerable part in how individuals and their associations see and identify themselves. The country is an exciting place for a social scientist to study how these new identities coexist, compete with, and try to delegitimize each other. In addition, new religions and reactions to them may provide a revealing focus for understanding how the emerging mode of coexistence is affected by the country’s historical legacy and new institutions, as well as by global transformations and political contingencies.
