Our faculty pursue studies in the history of religious beliefs, behaviours, and institutions in a variety of areas - Latin American history, African American, European, and in a cross-cultural perspective.
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My forthcoming book is a cultural history of the collapse of the USSR, focused on the highly visible flourishing of radical spiritual movements and worldviews that emerged in Soviet cities at that time. The manuscript is comprised of five case studies, each examining problems that Soviet people faced, and the beliefs—esoteric or dogmatic,…