Ideology And Atheism In The Soviet Union
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Author | : William van den Bercken |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2019-05-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 3110857375 |
The series Religion and Society (RS) contributes to the exploration of religions as social systems– both in Western and non-Western societies; in particular, it examines religions in their differentiation from, and intersection with, other cultural systems, such as art, economy, law and politics. Due attention is given to paradigmatic case or comparative studies that exhibit a clear theoretical orientation with the empirical and historical data of religion and such aspects of religion as ritual, the religious imagination, constructions of tradition, iconography, or media. In addition, the formation of religious communities, their construction of identity, and their relation to society and the wider public are key issues of this series.
Author | : William Peter van den Bercken |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 1989-01-01 |
Genre | : Atheism |
ISBN | : 9780899253848 |
Author | : Victoria Smolkin |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2019-10-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691197237 |
When the Bolsheviks set out to build a new world in the wake of the Russian Revolution, they expected religion to die off. Soviet power used a variety of tools--from education to propaganda to terror—to turn its vision of a Communist world without religion into reality. Yet even with its monopoly on ideology and power, the Soviet Communist Party never succeeded in overcoming religion and creating an atheist society. A Sacred Space Is Never Empty presents the first history of Soviet atheism from the 1917 revolution to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Drawing on a wealth of archival material and in-depth interviews with those who were on the front lines of Communist ideological campaigns, Victoria Smolkin argues that to understand the Soviet experiment, we must make sense of Soviet atheism. Smolkin shows how atheism was reimagined as an alternative cosmology with its own set of positive beliefs, practices, and spiritual commitments. Through its engagements with religion, the Soviet leadership realized that removing religion from the "sacred spaces" of Soviet life was not enough. Then, in the final years of the Soviet experiment, Mikhail Gorbachev—in a stunning and unexpected reversal—abandoned atheism and reintroduced religion into Soviet public life. A Sacred Space Is Never Empty explores the meaning of atheism for religious life, for Communist ideology, and for Soviet politics.
Author | : Victoria Smolkin |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2018-05-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1400890101 |
When the Bolsheviks set out to build a new world in the wake of the Russian Revolution, they expected religion to die off. Soviet power used a variety of tools--from education to propaganda to terror—to turn its vision of a Communist world without religion into reality. Yet even with its monopoly on ideology and power, the Soviet Communist Party never succeeded in overcoming religion and creating an atheist society. A Sacred Space Is Never Empty presents the first history of Soviet atheism from the 1917 revolution to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Drawing on a wealth of archival material and in-depth interviews with those who were on the front lines of Communist ideological campaigns, Victoria Smolkin argues that to understand the Soviet experiment, we must make sense of Soviet atheism. Smolkin shows how atheism was reimagined as an alternative cosmology with its own set of positive beliefs, practices, and spiritual commitments. Through its engagements with religion, the Soviet leadership realized that removing religion from the "sacred spaces" of Soviet life was not enough. Then, in the final years of the Soviet experiment, Mikhail Gorbachev—in a stunning and unexpected reversal—abandoned atheism and reintroduced religion into Soviet public life. A Sacred Space Is Never Empty explores the meaning of atheism for religious life, for Communist ideology, and for Soviet politics.
Author | : Paul D. Steeves |
Publisher | : Holmes & Meier Publishers |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James Thrower |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 529 |
Release | : 2011-04-20 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 3110838583 |
Since its founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.
Author | : Sonja Luehrmann |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2015-08-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 019046352X |
What can atheists tell us about religious life? Russian archives contain a wealth of information on religiosity during the Soviet era, but most of it is written from the hostile perspective of officials and scholars charged with promoting atheism. Based on archival research in locations as diverse as the multi-religious Volga region, Moscow, and Texas, Sonja Luehrmann argues that we can learn a great deal about Soviet religiosity when we focus not just on what documents say but also on what they did. Especially during the post-war decades (1950s-1970s), the puzzle of religious persistence under socialism challenged atheists to develop new approaches to studying and theorizing religion while also trying to control it. Taking into account the logic of filing systems as well as the content of documents, the book shows how documentary action made religious believers firmly a part of Soviet society while simultaneously casting them as ideologically alien. When juxtaposed with oral, printed, and samizdat sources, the records of institutions such as the Council of Religious Affairs and the Communist Party take on a dialogical quality. In distanced and carefully circumscribed form, they preserve traces of encounters with religious believers. By contrast, collections compiled by western supporters during the Cold War sometimes lack this ideological friction, recruiting Soviet believers into a deceptively simple binary of religion versus communism. Through careful readings and comparisons of different documentary genres and depositories, this book opens up a difficult set of sources to students of religion and secularism.
Author | : Dimitry V Pospielovsky |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 1988-07-29 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1349193577 |
Author | : Dimitry V Pospielovsky |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1988-01-19 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1349190020 |
Author | : Dimitry V Pospielovsky |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 1987-09-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1349188387 |