Reading Scientific Atheism Against the Grain
Reviewing a current publication on the academic study of religion in Eastern Europe the article proposes to read the scholarly output of Soviet Marxist-Leninist so-called scientific atheism not primarily with regard to its anti-religious ideological imprint, but as the expression of a specific disco...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2018
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| In: |
Method & theory in the study of religion
Year: 2018, Volume: 30, Issue: 2, Pages: 178-184 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Kryvelev, I. A. 1906-1991
/ Marxism-Leninism
/ Atheism
/ Religion
/ Discourse
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| IxTheo Classification: | AA Study of religion AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism KBK Europe (East) |
| Further subjects: | B
Soviet study of religion
Marxist-Leninist ideology
scientific atheism
study of religion during the Cold War
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Volltext (Publisher) |
| Summary: | Reviewing a current publication on the academic study of religion in Eastern Europe the article proposes to read the scholarly output of Soviet Marxist-Leninist so-called scientific atheism not primarily with regard to its anti-religious ideological imprint, but as the expression of a specific discourse on the essence of religion that shows parallels with the Western study of religion of that time. As an example for such a comparison, two texts by the Soviet scholar of religion Iosif Kryvelev are discussed. |
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| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource |
| ISSN: | 1570-0682 |
| Contains: | In: Method & theory in the study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700682-12341419 |
