Antropologicheskij forum, 2016, no. 31

A Review of BRIAN P. BENNETT, RELIGION AND LANGUAGE IN POST-SOVIET RUSSIA. London: Routledge, 2011, 186 pp.

Sergei Shtyrkov

European University at St Petersburg
3 Gagarinskaya Str., St Petersburg, Russia
Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences
3 Universitetskaya Emb., St Petersburg, Russia
shtyr()eu.spb.ru

Abstract: The reviewed book considers issues of linguistic ideology of traditionalism in post-Soviet Russia and specifically the different forms and functions of revival of a Church Slavonic tradition in reference to the service language and exotic script in the Orthodox Church and beyond. Bennett’s approach can be defined as “sociolinguistic religious studies”. It restructures our research view on language and religion and gives us a new perspective on how one can study everyday religious and linguistic nationalism.

Keywords: linguistic ideologies, post-Soviet Russia, Orthodoxy, religious nationalism, Church Slavonic language.

To cite: Shtyrkov S., 'A Review of Brian P. Bennett, Religion and Language in Post-Soviet Russia. London: Routledge, 2011, 186 pp.', Antropologicheskij forum, 2016, no. 31, pp. 253–266.

URL: http://anthropologie.kunstkamera.ru/files/pdf/031/shtyrkov.pdf