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Atheist Secularism and its Discontents

A Comparative Study of Religion and Communism in Eurasia

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Editors:
  1. Tam T. T. Ngo

    1. Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany

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  2. Justine B. Quijada

    1. Wesleyan University, USA

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Part of the book series: Global Diversities (GLODIV)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Atheist Secularism and Its Discontents

    1. Introduction: Atheist Secularism and Its Discontents

      • Tam T. T. Ngo, Justine B. Quijada
      Pages 1-26

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 256-293
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Atheist Secularism and Its Discontents takes a comparative approach to understanding religion under communism, arguing that communism was integral to the global experience of secularism. Bringing together leading researchers whose work spans the Eurasian continent, it shows that appropriating religion was central to Communist political practices.

Reviews

“This book treats secularism as a variegated phenomenon that is ‘produced through interaction of religious practices, political reform and state-building’ … . This book is highly recommended to scholars interested in the interplay of religion, politics, and culture.” (Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal, Slavic Review, 2017)

“The authors of this volume discuss the relationship between religion and communism, demonstrating how deeply both were intertwined. … This volume certainly offers interesting insights on the place of religion within a communist project aiming for forcible secularisation, as well as on new post-1989 realities. … the contributions to the volume offer fresh and thought-provoking perspectives on an approach that has recently become important to scholarship on communism and religion.” (Paula Borowska, Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 69 (6), 2017)


Editors and Affiliations

  • Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany

    Tam T. T. Ngo

  • Wesleyan University, USA

    Justine B. Quijada

About the editors

Clemena Antonova, Sofia University, Bulgaria Adam Yuet Chau, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Grant Evans, École Française d'Extrême-Orient, Laos Ji Zhe, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, France Jin-Heon Jung, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany Heonik Kwon, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Sonja Luehrmann, Simon Fraser University, Canada Agnieszka Pasieka, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Mathijs Pelkmans, London School of Economics, London Victor Shnirelman, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia Jayne Werner, Columbia University, United States Dan Smyer Yu, Yunnan Minzu University, China

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