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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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Brill
2018
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| Dans: |
Method & theory in the study of religion
Année: 2018, Volume: 30, Numéro: 2, Pages: 178-184 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Kryvelev, I. A. 1906-1991
/ Marxisme-léninisme
/ Athéisme
/ Religion
/ Discours
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| RelBib Classification: | AA Sciences des religions AB Philosophie de la religion KBK Europe de l'Est |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Soviet study of religion
Marxist-Leninist ideology
scientific atheism
study of religion during the Cold War
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| Résumé: | 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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| ISSN: | 1570-0682 |
| Contient: | In: Method & theory in the study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700682-12341419 |