Communicating Religion and Atheism in Central and Eastern Europe / / ed. by Dirk Schuster, Jenny Vorpahl.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Coțofană, Alexandra,; Gleixner, Johannes,; Hafner, Johann Ev.,; Hazdovac Bajić, Nikolina,; Kolkunova, Ksenia,; Kołodziejska, Marta,; Marinović, Ankica,; Möbius-Andre, Manuela,; Nešpor, Zdeněk R.,; Schmidt, Daniela,; Schuster, Dirk,; Vancsó, Anna,; Vorpahl, Jenny,
• HerausgeberIn: Schuster, Dirk,; Vorpahl, Jenny,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Religion and Its Others : Studies in Religion, Nonreligion and Secularity , 9
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VI, 312 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- “This book is the book of truth” – Introduction -- The rise and fall of the ‘Marxist sociology of religion’ in the GDR -- Beginnings of a Soviet sociology of religion and the (anti‐)religiosity of Muscovite workers (1925–1932) -- Rejected but not forgotten -- Distancing, defamation, criminalization -- (Un)willing fellow or enemy? -- From indoctrination to testimonials -- “Proletarian culture does not fall from heaven” -- Christian heritage in the art policy of the German Democratic Republic -- The importance of a meaningless 1989 -- Religion in the public and private sphere -- Transfer of knowledge about atheism and new religious movements -- Science as an alternative symbolic universe among members and organizations of nonreligious people and atheists in Croatia -- Religious knowledge as the common ground -- Central results -- List of Contributors -- Index