grounding that larger studies often miss. This book asks numerous ques- tions, answers some of them, and, most importantly, creates numerous research agendas for other scholars. For that the editors and authors are to be commended. Religion, Morality, and Community in Post-Soviet Societies. Edited by Mark D. Steinberg and Catherine Wanner. Washington, D.C. and Bloomington, IN: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Indiana University Press, 2008. xii + 350 pp. $65.00 cloth, $24.95 paper doi:10.1017/S1755048310000210 Lee Trepanier Saginaw Valley State University Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, religion has taken on a more prominent role throughout Eurasia in ethno-national identification, social practices, and public policies. This edited volume seeks to explore the role of religion in the post-Soviet socialist system from an interdisciplinary perspective that employs a wide range of methodologies, such as extensive interviews, long-term fieldwork, and analytical studies of archival material. Unlike some edited volumes, this one is organized around three major themes that unite its disparate and diverse chapters, thereby creating cohesiveness in the volume’s content. One of the volume’s concerns is the relationship between religion and democracy: does the state permit religious toleration and pluralism, and, if so, do religious believers reciprocate in their support for democratic norms and values? Three contributors focus on this particular topic: Irina Papkova’s and Zoe Knox’s examinations of the Russian Orthodox Church and Russell Zanca’s study of Islam in Uzbekistan. All three con- tributors conclude that democracies need to support religious liberty as a fundamental human right, that violation of this right is a strong indication of wider civil liberties abuses, and that religious intolerance poses a serious threat to democratic government. Knox looks at the Russian state’s discriminatory treatment of non- Orthodox groups and practices, particularly Roman Catholics and Jehovah Witnesses, during the Vladimir Putin years. We discover that the 1997 Russian Law on Freedom of Conscience and Religious 408 Book Reviews