Data di Pubblicazione:
2009
Citazione:
Laicization and atheism in the Soviet Union / G.M.I. Lami - In: Routines of existence : time, life and after life in society and religion / [a cura di] E. Brambilla, S. Deschler-Erb, J.-L. Lamboley, A. Klemeshov, G. Moretto. - Pisa : Plus-Pisa University Press, 2009. - ISBN 9788884926500. - pp. 207-221
Abstract:
The chapter describes how, in the Soviet Union after the October Revolution, the policy
on religion developed quickly from radical laicism to militant atheism, in theory
and in practice. An analysis of antireligious publications of the 1920s and the 1930s
clearly shows that this propaganda aimed to eradicate any remnant of the traditional
religious vision of the Soviet peoples and affirm the official Marxist-Leninist ideology.
Laicization was initially an important revolutionary moment, because religious organisations
were seen as political enemies in the light of the global project of total social
transformation. But soon laicization gave way to atheism, which allowed all sorts of
administrative and political abuses against religious institutions, clergy and believers.
Religion per se was seen as the opposite of enlightenment, progress, knowledge and
welfare. The spirit of radical secularisation and ideal of building an atheist society created
a polarization that put an end to the possibility of religious worship for decades.
Only the return of a relative democracy at the beginning of the 1990s allowed religion
to re-emerge onto the surface, leading to the growth of a religious pluralism like in the
West. Nevertheless, the burden of the past is still heavy, due to the many controversial
issues still existing between the different religions and denominations present in the
variegated post-Soviet world.
Tipologia IRIS:
03 - Contributo in volume
Keywords:
Ateismo ; URSS
Elenco autori:
G.M.I. Lami
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Titolo del libro:
Routines of existence : time, life and after life in society and religion