Transfer of knowledge about atheism and new religious movements

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. “This book is the book of truth” – Introduction 1
4. The rise and fall of the ‘Marxist sociology of religion’ in the GDR 25
5. Beginnings of a Soviet sociology of religion and the (anti‐)religiosity of Muscovite workers (1925–1932) 41
6. Rejected but not forgotten 59
7. Distancing, defamation, criminalization 77
8. (Un)willing fellow or enemy? 105
9. From indoctrination to testimonials 121
10. “Proletarian culture does not fall from heaven” 145
11. Christian heritage in the art policy of the German Democratic Republic 175
12. The importance of a meaningless 1989 189
13. Religion in the public and private sphere 211
14. Transfer of knowledge about atheism and new religious movements 237
15. Science as an alternative symbolic universe among members and organizations of nonreligious people and atheists in Croatia 257
16. Religious knowledge as the common ground 281
17. Central results 299
18. List of Contributors 303
19. Index 307