New Religious Movements in the Russian North: Competing Uses of Religiosity After Socialism (NEWREL)

该项目是一个由来自6个国家的研究人员组成的更大的国际合作的组成部分，该合作是在欧洲科学基金会的EUROCORES项目的支持下开发的，该项目被称为“BOREAS-来自北方的历史：环境、运动、叙事”。这次合作汇集了来自爱沙尼亚、芬兰、法国、俄罗斯、瑞士和美国的研究人员，他们就苏联解体和背离社会主义后俄罗斯北部宗教格局的变化等共同问题展开了研究。NSF资助的部分由两个相互关联的研究项目组成，这两个项目都与更大的NEWREL合作有关。这些项目将在俄罗斯远东地区使用人种学方法进行。这两个项目都将有助于了解在更容易被认可的有组织的宗教和得到体制支持的宗教之间的空隙中发生的宗教现象。其中一个项目将调查堪察加新的宗教运动、志愿主义和持久的社会机制，重点是宗教建筑在当地的意义。宗教体验的持久性将与遗产和传统的概念形成对比，特别是在较小的土著社区。PI将考察记忆、参与和预期作为过去、现在和未来的经验模式。这将阐明与宗教经验和实践相关的特殊的时间性质。另一个项目将通过探索阿拉斯加的传教士团体和他们在马加丹的目标社区之间的联系来调查传教士、人道主义援助和新自由主义意识形态。该项目没有关注皈依经历的宗教方面，而是考察了传教活动对当地经济思想和实践的影响。在俄罗斯政府和俄罗斯东正教采取行动遏制外国在俄罗斯的传教活动的背景下，了解俄罗斯远东传教士相遇的社会动态尤为重要。

This project is one component of a larger international collaboration of researchers from 6 countries developed under the auspices of the European Science Foundation's EUROCORES program know as "BOREAS-Histories from the North: Environments, Movements, Narratives." The collaboration brings together researchers from Estonia, Finland, France, Russia, Switzerland and the United States on common questions regarding changes in the religious landscape of the Russian North following the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the turn away from socialism. The NSF-funded component consists of two linked research projects, both of which are in turn related to the larger NEWREL collaboration. The projects will be carried out in the Russian Far East using ethnographic methodology. Both projects will contribute to an understanding of religious phenomena occurring in the interstices between more readily recognized spaces of organized and institutionally supported religion. One of these projects will investigate new religious movements, voluntarism and social mechanisms of durability in Kamchatka by focusing on the local meaning of the building of religious structures. The durability of religious experience will be contrasted with notions of heritage and tradition, especially in smaller indigenous communities. The PI will examine memory, participation and anticipation as experiential modes of past, present and future. This will elucidate the particular temporal qualities associated with religious experience and practice. The other project will investigate missionaries, humanitarian aid, and the ideology of neoliberalism by exploring the connections between missionary groups in Alaska and their target communities in Magadan. Rather than focusing on the religious aspects of the conversion experience, the project examines the impact of missionary activity on local economic ideology and practice. Understanding the social dynamics of the missionary encounter in the Russian Far East is particularly important in the context of moves by the Russian government and the Russian Orthodox Church to inhibit foreign missionary activity in Russia.