The Quest for Russias Soul: Evangelicals and Moral Education in Post-Communist Russia.

ISBN-13: 9780918954817 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 256 str.

Perry L. Glanzer

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Never mind Big Macs. The former Soviet republics are now opening their public school doors to teaching about Christianity, proclaimed USA Today in 1992. What were American evangelicals doing in Russian public schools? Actually, the Russian Ministry of Education had invited them. Faced with the need for new approaches to moral education after the demise of communism, the Russian Ministry of Education turned to a group of Western evangelical Christians called the CoMission for help. Oddly enough, a government that had promoted atheism, destroyed churches, and persecuted Christians for more than seventy years now found itself partnering with Christians to train their educators to teach ethics. This book not only tells the story of this odd educational enterprise and its ultimate outcome, but it also explores the questions that such a groundbreaking project inevitably raises. What led post-communist educators to seek help with moral education from Western Christians? How did the Russian Ministry of Education and the CoMission handle the church-state relationships that this endeavor produced? How did post-Soviet teachers respond? How did the Orthodox Church react? While a few books ha