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 | | Werth reconstructs this complicated history from a wide range of printed and archival sources, focusing on the ways in which the tsarist state and Orthodox missions used conversion in their ongoing (and regularly frustrated) efforts to transform the regions Muslim and animist populations into imperial, Orthodox citizens. |
 | | religions, per se, were viewed as a threat to the State's notion of individualism. |
 | | He compares the mindset of a faith-based society with the Bolshevik materialist worldview, emphasizing how religion functioned not only as a belief in the sacred but also as an entrenched system for ordering family and community relationships, explaining natural phenomena, and marking life passages such as birth, marriage, and death. |
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