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Science, Religion and Communism in Cold War Europe

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Editors:
  1. Paul Betts

    1. University of Oxford, St Antony’s College, Oxford, United Kingdom

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  2. Stephen A. Smith

    1. All Souls College, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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Part of the book series: St Antony's Series (STANTS)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Stephen A. Smith
    Pages 1-31

  5. The Socialist Life-Cycle: Between Science and Religion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-177
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    2. Writing Rituals: The Sources of Socialist Rites of Passage in Hungary, 1958–1970

      • Heléna Tóth
      Pages 179-203

    3. In Search of Rationality and Objectivity: Origins and Development of East German Thanatology

      • Felix Robin Schulz
      Pages 205-224
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About this book

Religion and science were fundamental aspects of Eastern European communist political culture from the very beginning, and remained in uneasy tension across the region over the decades. While both topics have long attracted a great deal of scholarly attention, they almost invariably have been studied discretely as separate stories. Religion, Science and Communism in Cold War Europe is the first scholarly effort to explore the delicate interface of religion, science and communism in Cold War Europe. It brings together an international team of researchers who address this relationship from a number of national viewpoints and thematic perspectives, ranging from mysticism to social science, space exploration to the socialist lifecycle, and architectural heritage to pop culture.  

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Oxford, St Antony’s College, Oxford, United Kingdom

    Paul Betts

  • All Souls College, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

    Stephen A. Smith

About the editors

Paul Betts is Professor of Modern European History at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, UK. He has previously taught at the University of Sussex and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA, and is the author of several books and numerous articles on twentieth-century German history. His most recent book, Within Walls: Private Life in the German Democratic Republic, was published in 2010.  


Stephen A. Smith is Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, UK. He has taught at the European University Institute in Florence and University of Essex, UK, and is the author of many books and articles on modern Russian and Chinese history. In 2014 he edited the Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Science, Religion and Communism in Cold War Europe

  • Editors: Paul Betts, Stephen A. Smith

  • Series Title: St Antony's Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54639-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-71401-8Published: 10 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-54639-5Published: 14 May 2016

  • Series ISSN: 2633-5964

  • Series E-ISSN: 2633-5972

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 307

  • Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: European History, History of Science, Religion and Society

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