Female Religiousness in Post-Revolutionary Russian Province: between Belief and Power

Abstract

In article political conditions and the social realities which have affected evolution of forms of female religiousness in a postrevolutionary Russian province (on an example of Smolensk region), concrete experts of confession of belief, specificity of self-identification of orthodox believers are analyzed. Mutual relations with the secular power act as a major factor of influence on evolution of female religiousness, defining its forms and concrete displays.