RT Book
T1 Communicating Religion and Atheism in Central and Eastern Europe
T2 Religion and Its Others
A2 Schuster, Dirk 1984-
A2 Vorpahl, Jenny 1986-
LA English
PP Berlin Boston
PB De Gruyter
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1724740504
AB Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- “This book is the book of truth” – Introduction -- The rise and fall of the ‘Marxist sociology of religion’ in the GDR -- Beginnings of a Soviet sociology of religion and the (anti‐)religiosity of Muscovite workers (1925–1932) -- Rejected but not forgotten -- Distancing, defamation, criminalization -- (Un)willing fellow or enemy? -- From indoctrination to testimonials -- “Proletarian culture does not fall from heaven” -- Christian heritage in the art policy of the German Democratic Republic -- The importance of a meaningless 1989 -- Religion in the public and private sphere -- Transfer of knowledge about atheism and new religious movements -- Science as an alternative symbolic universe among members and organizations of nonreligious people and atheists in Croatia -- Religious knowledge as the common ground -- Central results -- List of Contributors -- Index
AB This book brings together case studies dealing with historical as well as recent phenomena in former socialist nations, which testify the transfer of knowledge about religion and atheism. The material is connected on a semantic level by the presence of a historical watershed before and after socialism as well as on a theoretical level by the sociology of knowledge. With its focus on Central and Eastern Europe this volume is an important contribution to the research on nonreligion and secularity.The collected volume deals with agents and media within specific cultural and historical contexts. Theoretical claims and conceptions by single agents and/or institutions in which the imparting of knowledge about religion and atheism was or is a central assignment, are analyzed. Additionally, procedures of transmitting knowledge about religion and atheism and of sustaining related institutionalized norms, interpretations, roles and practices are in the focus of interest.The book opens the perspective for the multidimensional and negotiating character of legitimation processes, being involved in the establishment or questioning of the institutionalized opposition between religion and atheism or religion and science
CN BV652.97.E85
SN 9783110547085
K1 Communication : Religious aspects
K1 Atheism
K1 RELIGION / Atheism
K1 Sozialismus
K1 RELIGION / Comparative Religion
K1 Säkularität
K1 Religionslosigkeit
K1 Atheismus
K1 Nonreligion
K1 Secularity
K1 Socialism
K1 Aufsatzsammlung
DO 10.1515/9783110547085