The article describes a five-year (2016–2020) project on the history of Russian religious studies, carried out by St. Petersburg scholars under the leadership of M.M. Shakhnovich with financial support from the Russian Science Foundation. The paper presents an overview of the main publications of the project: the collective monograph “The history of religious studies and the intellectual history of Russia in the 19th – first half of the 20th century. Archival materials and research” (2018), a series of publications (2018–2019) under the general title “From the archive” – a volume of selected works of V.G. Bogoraz on shamanism (1934–1936) and his course of lectures on the evolution of religions (1927–1928), works by E.G. Kagarov, V.I. Nedelsky, M.I. Shakhnovich (1929–1937), a collection of articles by employees of the Central Anti-Religious Museum and materials from field research by employees of the Central Antireligious Museum and its exhibition materials (1930–1940s). The article describes a resource created by a team of researchers and a bio-bibliographic index “The study of religion in Russia in the 18th – first half of the 20th centuries” (2020) prepared on its basis, as well as a two-volume annotated anthology of the creative works in religious studies (2020), covering the period from 1848 to 1935. The review is completed by a volume of theses of the final conference held within the framework of the project (2020).
Keywords: history of science, history of religious studies in Russia, State Museum of the History of Religion, biography, bibliography
DOI: 10.22250/20728662_2022_1_157
About the author
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Dimitri A. Bratkin – PhD (History), Associate Professor, Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy of Religion and Religious Studies, St. Petersburg University; |