Communicating Religion and Atheism in Central and Eastern Europe

Published by De Gruyter 2020

Communicating Religion and Atheism in Central and Eastern Europe

Edited by: Jenny Vorpahl and Dirk Schuster

Volume 9 in the series Religion and Its Others

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110547085

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Dirk Schuster and Jenny Vorpahl, University of Potsdam, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
“This book is the book of truth” – Introduction Jenny Vorpahl and Dirk Schuster Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
The rise and fall of the ‘Marxist sociology of religion’ in the GDR Dirk Schuster Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
Beginnings of a Soviet sociology of religion and the (anti‐)religiosity of Muscovite workers (1925–1932) Creating the antireligious subject Johannes Gleixner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
Rejected but not forgotten Scientific atheism’s concepts in contemporary Russia Ksenia Kolkunova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Distancing, defamation, criminalization Religion-related vocabulary in GDR dictionaries Daniela Schmidt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
(Un)willing fellow or enemy? The public discourse on religion in Czechoslovakia in the first two decades of communist rule and the divergent responses of the churches Zdeněk R. Nešpor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
From indoctrination to testimonials The book gifts for Jugendweihe in the GDR and reunified Germany Johann Ev. Hafner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
“Proletarian culture does not fall from heaven” Patterns of legitimation in the reception of ritual traditions in the GDR Jenny Vorpahl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Christian heritage in the art policy of the German Democratic Republic Manuela Möbius-Andre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
The importance of a meaningless 1989 Romanian political theologies and the religious left Alexandra Coțofană Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Religion in the public and private sphere Changes in religious knowledge in Hungary since 1945 Anna Vancsó Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Transfer of knowledge about atheism and new religious movements Analysis of religious instruction textbooks in public schools in Croatia Ankica Marinović Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Science as an alternative symbolic universe among members and organizations of nonreligious people and atheists in Croatia Nikolina Hazdovac Bajić Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Religious knowledge as the common ground The case study of atheists on catholic online forums in Poland Marta Kołodziejska Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
Central results Jenny Vorpahl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of religious studies, history of religion, sociology of religion, political science, theology
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 312
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 3
- Coloured Illustrations: 2
- Tables: 4
Keywords: Nonreligion; secularity; atheism; socialism

eBook

Published: June 8, 2020
ISBN: 9783110547085

Hardcover

Published: May 18, 2020
ISBN: 9783110546378