Presentations by Streams

This panel brings together three papers that explore changing religious identities in different times, geographies and social contexts: from the changing social identities and opportunities of Russian Orthodox women in the nineteenth-century Baltic region, clerical and intellectual émigrés in Paris venerating St. Serafim Sarovskii in the 1920s and 1930s, to Muslim émigrés from post-Soviet North Caucasus adapting to a new European context. These papers examine the ways religious heritage (variously conceived) may be drawn upon to create, recreate and/or establish personal and community identities in periods of flux, such as rapid social change and geographic relocation. This panel is supported by the BASEES Religion and Spirituality in Russia and Eastern Europe study group.