Betts, Paul
Science, Religion and Communism in Cold War Europe
1. Introduction
Stephen A. Smith
Part I. Religion and Social Science in Eastern Europe
2. Piety by the Numbers: Social Science and Polish Debates About Secularization in the 1960s and 1970s
Jim Bjork
3. The Shepherds’ Calling, the Engineers’ Project, and the Scientists’ Problem: Scientific Knowledge and the Care of Souls in Communist Eastern Europe
Patrick Hyder Patterson
4. Romanian Spirituality in Ceauşescu’s ‘Golden Epoch’: Social Scientists Reconsider Atheism, Religion, and Ritual Culture
Zsuzsánna Magdó
Part II. Science, Religion and the Paranormal
5. Inculcating Materialist Minds: Scientific Propaganda and Anti-Religion in the USSR During the Cold War
James T. Andrews
6. Tsiolkovskii and the Invention of ‘Russian Cosmism’: Science, Mysticism, and the Conquest of Nature at the Birth of Soviet Space Exploration
Asif Siddiqi
7. Witchdoctors Drive Sports Cars, Science Takes the Bus: An Anti-Superstition Alliance Across a Divided Germany
Monica Black
Part III. The Socialist Life-Cycle: Between Science and Religion
8. Writing Rituals: The Sources of Socialist Rites of Passage in Hungary, 1958–1970
Heléna Tóth
9. In Search of Rationality and Objectivity: Origins and Development of East German Thanatology
Felix Robin Schulz
Part IV. Socialism and the Problem of Religious Heritage
10. Religion and
Catriona Kelly
11. The Antireligious Museum: Soviet Heterotopia between Transcending and Remembering Religious Heritage
Igor J. Polianski
12. Religion, Science and Cold War Anti-Communism: The 1949 Cardinal Mindszenty Show Trial
Paul Betts
Keywords: History, European History, History of Science, Religion and Society
- Editor
- Betts, Paul
- Smith, Stephen A.
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2016
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- St Antony's Series
- Page amount
- 13 pages
- Category
- History
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137546395
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-137-54638-8