«In the periphery»: Scientific atheism in the structure of the Institute of Philosophy

• Authors: Kyseliov Оleh

Title variants

UK

«На периферії»: науковий атеїзм у структурі Інституту філософії

• Languages of publication: UK

Abstracts

EN

The article deals with the activity of the department of scientific atheism based on archive materials and interviews with former employees. The author concludes that the department had two types of activity: 1) research, which, in spite of the limited methodology and negative reception of religion, we can call religious studies; 2) cooperation with the Communist Party organizations in the field of antireligious propaganda and atheistic education. Due to the specifics of its problematic the department of scientific atheism was only nominally integrated to the Institute of philosophy.

Keywords

EN

scientific atheism, religious studies, study of religion, Institute of philosophy, perestroika

• Publisher: G.S. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
• Journal: Філософська Думка
• Year: 2016
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 49-53

Contributors

author

Kyseliov Оleh