Dit boek bevat waargebeurde verhalen over gewone Russen. De verhalen kwamen tot stand vanaf 2007, toen Salemon voor bijna drie jaar naar Moskou vertrok om te gaan werken als tolk-vertaler/analist op de Nederlandse ambassade. Vooral door haar kennismaking met de lesbische activiste Bootsman mondde dat streven uit in vele belevenissen, die Salemon een beeld gaven van de alledaagse werkelijkheid in post-Sovjet Rusland.
This volume addresses three things: God, sex, and politics. It investigates what is at stake in these constructions of religion and homosexuality in public discourses. Starting with the Netherlands as a special case study, it proceeds with contributions on other predominantly postsecular countries in central, northern, and southern Europe as well as several postcommunist and postcolonial countries ’beyond Europe’. Combining contemporary and historical perspectives and approaches from both the humanities and the social sciences, the contributors explore how national and European identities are constructed and contested in debates on religion and homosexuality. [Chapter 2 and Chapter 8 of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.]