Atheism’s Peaks and Valleys in Russia

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Atheism’s Peaks and Valleys in Russia

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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”.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Atheism’s Peaks and Valleys in Russia

Popis výsledku anglicky

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”.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60304 - Religious studies

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA18-11345S" target="_blank" >GA18-11345S: Ateismus, volnomyšlenkářství a sekularizace v zemích střední a východní Evropy ve 20. a 21. století</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2020

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Freethought and Atheism in Central and Eastern Europe. The Development of Secularity and Non-Religion

ISBN

978-1-03-217379-5

Počet stran výsledku

25

Strana od-do

233-257

Počet stran knihy

331

Název nakladatele

Routledge

Místo vydání

London

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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