Siblings Veiled by Ideology?

Reflections on the Epistemological Kinship between the Phenomenology of Religion and Soviet Scientific Atheism

Authors

  • Stefan Ragaz University of Basel

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.30968

Keywords:

Soviet study of religion, phenomenology of religion, Marxist-Leninist ideology, scientific atheism

Abstract

The essay proposes that historically Soviet scholarship on religion should not only be understood as the result of Marxist-Leninist ideology, but also as a phenomenological approach to religion operating in many ways with the same epistemological foundation as the Western phenomenology of religion.

Author Biography

  • Stefan Ragaz, University of Basel

    PhD candidate in the Study of Religion, University of Basel

References

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Pospielovsky, Dimitry V. 1987. A History of Marxist-Leninist Atheism and Soviet Antireligious Policies. Basingstoke: Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18838-3.

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Thrower, James. 1983. Marxist-Leninist ‘Scientific Atheism’ and the Study of Religion and Atheism in the USSR. Berlin: Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110838589.

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Published

2017-04-18

Issue

Vol. 46 No. 1 (2017)

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Ragaz, S. (2017). Siblings Veiled by Ideology? Reflections on the Epistemological Kinship between the Phenomenology of Religion and Soviet Scientific Atheism. Bulletin for the Study of Religion, 46(1), 8-10. https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.30968