Eva Guigo-Patzelt

Scientific Atheism in East Germany (1963-1990)

How to Turn a Hare into a Lion

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers an in-depth, archive-based analysis of 'scientific atheism', focused on the development of the field in the German Democratic Republic (GDR).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032700960
• ISBN-10: 1032700963
• Artikelnr.: 71302509

Autorenporträt

Eva Guigo-Patzelt is an associate member of CéSor - Centre d'études en sciences sociales du religieux (EHESS/CNRS) in France and a project lead within the Explaining Atheism Programme led by Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of acronyms and abbreviations
Introduction
1 Atheism, sciences and the introduction of scientific atheism in Eastern
Germany
2 East German scientific atheism unveiling its contents in the 1960s
3 Scientific atheists as actors of atheisation in the 1960s
4 Recovery, upswing and upper limit of scientific atheism in the 1970s and
1980s
5 Lectures on scientific atheism in the GDR, against wide-spread
indifference
6 Scientific atheism in the 1970s, between conflicts with religion and
cooperation with believers
7 Towards a theoretical renewal of scientific atheism and new commitments
in society in the 1980s
Conclusion