The Plot to Kill God: Findings from the Soviet Experiment in Secularization
The aim of this book is both commendable and ambitious, in that it attempts “to take what historians and area specialists currently know about the Soviet Union and apply it to theoretical debates in the social scientific study of religion” (p. 15). In particular, it suggests that what is described a...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2009
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2009, Volume: 51, Issue: 2, Pages: 363-364 |
| Review of: | The plot to kill God (Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2008) (Anderson, John)
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| Summary: | The aim of this book is both commendable and ambitious, in that it attempts “to take what historians and area specialists currently know about the Soviet Union and apply it to theoretical debates in the social scientific study of religion” (p. 15). In particular, it suggests that what is described as the “Secularization Experiment” tested the extent to which religious vitality or decline are a product of “ignorance, ritual activity, social institutions, social rewards, salvation incentives, and church-state relationships” (p. 24). |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csp044 |
