Andrey Makarychev

Julie Fedor

Andreas Umland

Yuliya Yurchuk

This issue includes the fifth special section in the series "Issues in the History and Memory of the OUN" and the second instalment of "A Debate on 'Ustashism, ' Generic Fascism and the OUN," both guest edited by Andreas Umland and Yuliya Yurchuk.

Volume 7, No. 2

Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society

Zuzanna Bogumił

The book argues that religion is a system of significant meanings that have an impact on other systems and spheres of social life including cultural memory. The editors call for a postsecular turn in memory studies which would provide a more reflective and meaningful approach to the constant interplay between the religious and the secular. This opens up new perspectives on the intersection of memory and religion and helps memory scholars become more aware of the religious roots of the language they are using in their studies of memory. By drawing on examples from different parts of the world, the contributors to this volume explain how the interactions between the religious and the secular produce new memory forms and content in the heterogenous societies of the present-day world. These analysed cases demonstrate that religion has a significant impact on cultural memory, family memory and the contemporary politics of history in secularized societies. At the same time, politics, grassroots movements and different secular agents and processes have so much influence on the formation of memory by religious actors that even religious, ecclesiastic and confessional memories are affected by the secular. This volume is ideal for students and scholars of memory studies, religious studies and history.

Yuliya Yurchuk

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