The Shepherds’ Calling, the Engineers’ Project, and the Scientists’ Problem: Scientific Knowledge and the Care of Souls in Communist Eastern Europe (2016)
The essay investigates sociological and psychological approaches to religion among mainstream Marxist scholars in Yugoslavia and Hungary. In both countries the abandonment of crude scientific determinism led to softer anti-religious rhetoric, while the unexpected persistence of religiosity demanded new explanations for the failure of secularization theory. In contrast to Yugoslavia, where social scientists from the 1960s largely discarded efforts to use science to help make religion disappear, Hungarian analyses in the same period remained more overtly ideological. Both countries’ social-scientific disciplines continued to view the underlying science, especially the psychology of religion, as confirming socialist understandings of human relations.
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