Contents
From the Editors
Forum 22: Equal Opportunities and the Academic Career: Chimera, Ideal, or Reality?
From the Editorial Board
Vladimir Bogdanov, Marc Elie, Elena Filippova, Revekka Frumkina, Irиne Herrmann, Katharine Hodgson, Beth Holmgren, Alexandra Kasatkina, Catriona Kelly, Anna Kushkova, Aleksandr Nazarenko, Natalia Pushkareva, Anna Sokolova, Viktor Voronkov, Igor Yanovich
Olga Boitsova. There Is No Such Thing as Discrimination — Or Is There?
Articles
Konstantin Bogdanov. ‘Negroes’ in the USSR. The Ethnography of an Imaginary Diaspora
Religion in the Contemporary City
Elena Nosenko-Shtein. From the Compiler
Natalia Shlikhta. ‘Orthodox’ and ‘Soviet’: the Identity of Soviet Believers (1940s — early 1970s)
Marat Safarov. Mosque Attendance in the Current Religious Practice of Moscow Tatars
Elena Nosenko-Shtein. ‘Ours’ and ‘Theirs’ in the Modern Russian City: Jewish Sacral Geography
Victor Shnirelman. The End of the World or the Beginning of a New Cycle? Ideas of the End of Times in Christianity and Esoteric Beliefs
Reviews
Larisa Deriglazova. Office Plankton and Social Transformers in the Dantean Hell: A Review of Jarrett Zigon. Making the New Post-Soviet Person: Moral Experience in Contemporary Moscow. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2010
Daria Dubovka. The Snares of the ‘Material Turn’ for the Anthropology of Religion: A Review of Amy Whitehead. Religious Statues and Personhood: Testing the Role of Materiality. London; New York: Bloomsbury, 2013
Mariya Konstantinova. Bruno Latour’s Dramatisation of Science: the Production of Impressions in Action: A Review of Bruno Latur. Nauka v deistvii: sleduya za uchenymi i inzhenerami vnutri obshchestva [Science in Action: Following Scientists and Engineers within Society]. St Petersburg: Izdatelstvo Evropeiskogo universiteta v Sankt-Peterburge, 2013
Andrei Moroz. The Language of the Russian Popular Print: A Review of Aleksandra Pletneva, Lubochnaya Bibliya: Yazyk i tekst [The Woodcut Bible. Language and Text]. Moscow: Yazyki slavyanskoi kultury, 2013
Elena Nam. The Multiple Functions of a Thing: A Review of P. K. Dashkovsky, S. M. Karymova. Veshch v traditsionnoi kulture narodov Tsentralnoi Azii: filosofsko-kulturologicheskoe issledovanie: Monografiya [The Thing in the Traditional Culture of the Peoples of Central Asia: a Philosophical and Cultural Study. Monograph]. Barnaul: Izdatelstvo Altaiskogo universiteta, 2012
Dmitri Sitchinava. An Event for Classical Philology and Linguistics: A Review of J. N. Adams. Social Variation and the Latin Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012
Jonathan Waterlow. Negotiating with the State: A Review of Tracy McDonald. Face to the Village: The Riazan Countryside under Soviet Rule, 1921–1930. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011
James White. Money, Morality, and Power in the Russian Regions: A Review of Douglas Rogers. The Old Faith and the Russian Land. A Historical Ethnography of Ethics in the Urals. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2009
