Book ID: CBB871767556

Science, Religion and Communism in Cold War Europe (2016)

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Betts, Paul (Editor)
Smith, Stephen A. (Editor)


Palgrave Macmillan


Publication Date: 2016
Physical Details: 307 pages
Language: English

Religion and science were fundamental aspects of Eastern European communist political culture from the very beginning, and remained in uneasy tension across the region over the decades. While both topics have long attracted a great deal of scholarly attention, they almost invariably have been studied discretely as separate stories. Religion, Science and Communism in Cold War Europe is the first scholarly effort to explore the delicate interface of religion, science and communism in Cold War Europe. It brings together an international team of researchers who address this relationship from a number of national viewpoints and thematic perspectives, ranging from mysticism to social science, space exploration to the socialist lifecycle, and architectural heritage to pop culture.

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Chapter Felix Robin Schulz (2016) In Search of Rationality and Objectivity: Origins and Development of East German Thanatology. In: Science, Religion and Communism in Cold War Europe (pp. 205-224). unapi

Chapter James T. Andrews (2016) Inculcating Materialist Minds: Scientific Propaganda and Anti-Religion in the USSR During the Cold War. In: Science, Religion and Communism in Cold War Europe (pp. 105-125). unapi

Chapter Patrick Hyder Patterson (2016) The Shepherds’ Calling, the Engineers’ Project, and the Scientists’ Problem: Scientific Knowledge and the Care of Souls in Communist Eastern Europe. In: Science, Religion and Communism in Cold War Europe (pp. 55-76). unapi

Chapter Paul Betts (2016) Religion, Science and Cold War Anti-Communism: The 1949 Cardinal Mindszenty Show Trial. In: Science, Religion and Communism in Cold War Europe (pp. 275-307). unapi

Chapter Catriona Kelly (2016) Religion and Nauka: Churches as Architectural Heritage in Soviet Leningrad. In: Science, Religion and Communism in Cold War Europe (pp. 227-251). unapi

Chapter Monica Black (2016) Witchdoctors Drive Sports Cars, Science Takes the Bus: An Anti-Superstition Alliance Across a Divided Germany. In: Science, Religion and Communism in Cold War Europe (pp. 157-175). unapi

Chapter Heléna Tóth (2016) Writing Rituals: The Sources of Socialist Rites of Passage in Hungary, 1958–1970. In: Science, Religion and Communism in Cold War Europe (pp. 179-203). unapi

Chapter Zsuzsánna Magdó (2016) Romanian Spirituality in Ceauşescu’s ‘Golden Epoch’: Social Scientists Reconsider Atheism, Religion, and Ritual Culture. In: Science, Religion and Communism in Cold War Europe (pp. 77-101). unapi

Chapter Asif Siddiqi (2016) Tsiolkovskii and the Invention of ‘Russian Cosmism’: Science, Mysticism, and the Conquest of Nature at the Birth of Soviet Space Exploration. In: Science, Religion and Communism in Cold War Europe (pp. 127-156). unapi

Chapter Jim Bjork (2016) Piety by the Numbers: Social Science and Polish Debates About Secularization in the 1960s and 1970s. In: Science, Religion and Communism in Cold War Europe (pp. 35-54). unapi

Chapter Stephen A. Smith (2016) Introduction. In: Science, Religion and Communism in Cold War Europe (pp. 1-31). unapi

Chapter Igor J. Polianski (2016) The Antireligious Museum: Soviet Heterotopia between Transcending and Remembering Religious Heritage. In: Science, Religion and Communism in Cold War Europe (pp. 253-273). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Vezzosi, Elisabetta
Generali, Dario
Pierre Journoud
Anne-Laure Anizan
Bini, Elisabetta
Jens Gieseke
Concepts
Science and politics
Cold War
Communism
Science and society
Science and religion
Human rights
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
21st century
18th century
17th century
Places
Europe
Soviet Union
United States
Italy
Hungary
China
Institutions
School of Milan
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
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