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Author Froese, Paul.

Title The plot to kill God : findings from the Soviet experiment in secularization / Paul Froese.

Imprint Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2008.

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 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  211.80947 F922p 2008    ---  Lib Use Only
Description xiii, 248 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-234) and index.
Contents Introduction: The great secularization experiment -- Dreams of secularization -- The atheist crusade -- Shutting off religious supply -- Hunting for religious demand -- After atheism -- The social and political resilience of God.
Summary "Paul Froese explores the nature of religious faith in a provocative examination of the most massive atheism campaign in human history. That campaign occurred after the 1917 Russian Revolution, when Soviet plans for a new Marxist utopia included the total eradication of all religion. Even though the Soviet Union's attempt to secularize its society was quite successful at crushing the institutional and ritual manifestations of religion, its leaders were surprised at the persistence of religious belief. Froese's account reveals how atheism, when taken to its extreme, can become as dogmatic and oppressive as any religious faith and illuminates the struggle for individual expression in the face of social repression."--Jacket.
Subject Secularization -- Soviet Union.
Church and state -- Soviet Union.
Communism and religion -- Soviet Union.
Church and state. (OCoLC)fst00860509
Communism and religion. (OCoLC)fst00870529
Secularization. (OCoLC)fst01110738
Soviet Union. (OCoLC)fst01210281
ISBN 9780520255289 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0520255283 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780520255296 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0520255291 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

 
    
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