Science, Religion and Communism in Cold War Europe
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 atten
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Edited by Paul Betts Stephen A. Smith
St Antony’s Series
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Series Editors Halbert Jones St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom Matthew Walton St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
The St Antony’s Series publishes studies of international affairs of contemporary interest to the scholarly community and a general yet informed readership. Contributors share a connection with St Antony’s College, a world-renowned centre at the University of Oxford for research and teaching on global and regional issues. The series covers all parts of the world through both single-author monographs and edited volumes, and its titles come from a range of disciplines, including political science, history, and sociology. Over more than thirty years, this partnership between St Antony’s College and Palgrave Macmillan has produced about 200 publications. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/15036
Paul Betts • Stephen A. Smith Editors
Science, Religion and Communism in Cold War Europe
Editors Paul Betts St Antony’s College Oxford University Oxford, UK
Stephen A. Smith All Souls College Oxford University Oxford, UK
St Antony’s Series ISBN 978-1-137-54638-8 ISBN 978-1-137-54639-5 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-54639-5
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CONTENTS
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Introduction Stephen A. Smith
Part I 2
Religion and Social Science in Eastern Europe
Piety by the Numbers: Social Science and Polish Debates About Secularization in the 1960s and 1970s J
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