Kampania otwierania świętych relikwii jako element antycerkiewnej polityki władz komunistycznych

• Authors: Kamila Pawełczyk-Dura

Title variants

EN

The Campaign of Confiscation of Saints’ Relics as an Element of Communist Anti-religious Politics

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The elimination of religion was a fundamental ideological goal of the communist state. According to Marxist theory, religion was a product of material conditions. Working from this premise, militant atheism initially considered that religion would disappear on its own through the coming of the new society system. After the revolution the Bolsheviks started a massive persecution. When it became clear that religion was not dying out on its own, the USSR began general antireligious campaigns. One of the lesser known campaigns was confiscation of saints’ relics, carefully preserved for the purposes of veneration or as a touchable or tangible memorial.

Keywords

EN

The Russian Orthodox Church; relics; communism; anti-religious campaign

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Studia Religiologica
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 45
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 227–235

Dates

online

2013-01-22

Contributors

author

Kamila Pawełczyk-Dura

Identifiers

DOI

10.4467/20844077SR.12.018.0971