Smolkin A Sacred Space Is Never Empty

A History of Soviet Atheism
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4008-9010-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 360 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Smolkin, Victoria

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Alternative Glaubensformen Agnostizismus, Atheismus, Säkularer Humanismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Abbreviations xv

Introduction 1

1 The Religious Front: Militant Atheism under Lenin and Stalin 21

2 The Specter Haunting Soviet Communism: Antireligious Campaigns under Khrushchev 57

3 Cosmic Enlightenment: Soviet Atheism as Science 84

4 The Ticket to the Soviet Soul: Soviet Atheism as Worldview 106

5 “We Have to Figure Out Where We Lost People”: Soviet Atheism as Social Science 142

6 The Communist Party between State and Church: Soviet Atheism and Socialist Rituals 165

7 The Socialist Way of Life: Soviet Atheism and Spiritual Culture 194

Conclusion Utopia’s Orphan: Soviet Atheism and the Death of the Communist Project 228

Notes 247

Bibliography 303

Index 333

Über Autor(innen)

Victoria Smolkin is assistant professor of history at Wesleyan University.