Among the important questions considered are how religion addresses problems of charity, memory, justice, community, morality, nationalism, democracy, and civil liberties.

Introduction Reclaiming the Sacred After Communism
1. To Save the World or to Renounce It: Modes of Moral Action in Russian Orthodoxy
Scott M. Kenworthy
2. The Freezing of Historical Memory? The Post-Soviet Russian Orthodox Church and the Council of 1917
Irina Papkova
3. Aleksandra Vladimirovna: Moral Narratives of a Russian Orthodox Woman
Jarrett Zigon
4. Old Belief Between "Society" and "Culture": Remaking Moral Communities and Inequalities on a Former State Farm
Douglas Rogers
5. Communities of Mourning: Mountain Jewish Laments in Azerbaijan and on the Internet
Sascha Goluboff
6. Social Welfare and Christian Welfare: Who Gets Saved in Post-Soviet Russian Charity Work?
Melissa L. Caldwell
7. Shamanic Transformations: Buriat Shamans as Mediators of Multiple Worlds
Katherine Metzo
8. Fearing Islam in Uzbekistan: Islamic Tendencies, Extremist Violence, and Authoritarian Secularism
Russell Zanca
9. Religious Freedom in Russia: The Putin Years
Zoe Knox
10. Afterword: Policy Implications of the Research and Analysis
Further Reading

edited by Mark D. Steinberg, Catherine Wanner