Праблемы гістарыяграфіі Евангельскіх хрысціян-баптыстаў: традыцыі перыяду БССР
Problems of Historiography of Evangelical Christian Baptists: Traditions of the BSSR Period

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the main problems of the Soviet historiography of Evangelical Christian Baptists (ECB). State control, methodological and thematic constraints resulted in biased image of ECB in the Soviet society. Applied sociological and religious studies, which were part of religious policy and formed the image of believers in the official discourse, dominated in the research on this subject. Soviet historiography presents not only a source of studying state-religion relations, it contains a wealth of factual material on the activities of ECB in BSSR. Besides, the analysis of Soviet era research helps to get rid of many stereotypes and constraints in the formation of the modern Belarusian historiography.

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