February, 13 – Regular Seminar

Topic: National Pride and Institutional Trust of Russia's Muslims
Speakers: Eduard Ponarin and Artur Musaev, LCSR

The Laboratory for Comparative Social Research announces the next regular seminar, which will be held as a zoom session on February, 13th, at 02:30 p.m. CET (04:30 p.m. Moscow time, GMT+3). Eduard Ponarin and Artur Musaev Ronald F. Inglehart Laboratory for Comparative Social Research, HSE University, Russia) will deliver a report "Family Structure: Persistence and Change".

To participate, please, register via the link.

Abstract

The non-Orthodox ethnic republics of the Russian Federation exhibited high levels of separatism during the 1990s. Meanwhile, ethnic republics whose religion is Russian Orthodoxy were by far less separatist even if the titular nation constituted a solid majority, as for instance is the case in Chuvashia where ethnic Chuvash make roughly 70% of the republic's population. Our interpretation of the religious factor has to do with long-haul history, including the pattern of incorporation of ethnic elites into the Russian state.

This paper, however, deals with less remote phenomena and traces religious differentials in national pride and institutional trust across cohorts of Russian Muslims and non-Muslims in a recent mass survey. We show that these differences are only significant for the 'perestroika' generation whose early adulthood coincided with the Soviet collapse and not for earlier or later cohorts. We interpret these finding in terms of cohort replacement and impressionable years theories. Furthermore, we explore the difference between Muslims of the Caucasus and the Volga-Urals areas.

Everyone interested is invited!

Working language is English.