Atheism’s Peaks and Valleys in Russia

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Result on the web
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Atheism’s Peaks and Valleys in Russia
Original language description
Four periods in the history of atheism and Freethought in Russia are discussed in this chapter: The first (second half of the eighteenth century) is the aristocratic period when the Russian nobility was keen on the ideas of the French Enlightenment. The second is the period of the search by the intelligentsia for ultimate truth apart from official Orthodox Christianity (the second part of the nineteenth century). In the third period after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, Soviet atheism transformed the philosophical critique of religion into practical politics aimed at expunging not only religious institutions but also the daily expressions of religious beliefs; two stages of Soviet atheism – the “militant” and the “scientific” – are considered. A distinction is made between institutional religion and private beliefs and practices; it is demonstrated that the Soviet state was much more successful in extermination of the former than of the latter. Finally, it is argued that in post-Soviet Russia the place of atheism, as one of the basic principles of Soviet ideology, is occupied by religion as a repository of “genuine” spirituality. The conclusion is reached that the position of an atheist in Russia today is more of an atheist for “inward use”.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GA18-11345S" target="_blank" >GA18-11345S: Atheism, Freethought and Secularization in Central and Eastern European Countries in the 20th and 21st Centuries</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
Freethought and Atheism in Central and Eastern Europe. The Development of Secularity and Non-Religion
ISBN
978-1-03-217379-5
Number of pages of the result
25
Pages from-to
233-257
Number of pages of the book
331
Publisher name
Routledge
Place of publication
London
UT code for WoS chapter
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