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Writing Rituals: The Sources of Socialist Rites of Passage in Hungary, 1958–1970 (2016)

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Focusing on the development of socialist rites of passage in Hungary, the chapter makes two arguments. First, that the early 1960s were a phase of intense experimentation, in which the individual initiative of party cadres played a more important role than specific directives. And second, that the development of a specifically Hungarian form of ‘applied atheism’ had an international dimension as ritual experts traveled across the Eastern Bloc to search for inspiration but also for a ground of comparison. For Hungarian ritual experts, Czechoslovakia was a more important reference point than the Soviet Union in this context. As a composite, the two arguments nuance our understanding of dynamics of the so-called conflict between the religious and atheist world view.

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Authors & Contributors
Vargha, Dora
Papparella, Franca C.
Kateřina Lišková
Patrick Hyder Patterson
P. K. Yasser Arafath
Smith, Stephen A.
Concepts
Communism
Socialism
Rituals
Medicine and politics
Technology
Science and religion
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
Early modern
18th century
Places
Hungary
Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia
Poland
China
Calabria
Institutions
Habsburg, House of
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