Russian Postmodernism

TL;DR: When religious institutions engage the secular emotively and publicly, they can foster an affective atmosphere of religiosity, which potentially has motivational power, even for non-believers, because it shapes the sensorium of those who circulate in public space as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of Islam in the integration of Muslim migrants into a multicultural society with a long-standing Islamic component is examined, and the authors conclude that social solidarity on the basis of common religion is formed inside migrant communities despite ethnic differences rather than between autochthonous Muslims and migrants.

TL;DR: The authors argued that Aleksei Balabanov's Of Freaks and Men is a postmodern commentary on post-Soviet society, displaying the themes of voyeurism, pornography and perversion within the simulacrum of the Russian fin de siecle.