Science, Religion and Communism in Cold War Europe

Introduction; Stephen A. Smith.- PART I: RELIGION AND SOCIAL SCIENCE IN EASTERN EUROPE.- 1. Piety by Numbers: Social Science and Polish Debates about Secularization in the 1960s and 1970s; James Bjork.- 2. The Shepherds' Calling, the Engineers' Project, and the Scientists' Problem: Scientific Knowledge and the Care of Souls in Communist Eastern Europe; Patrick Hyder Patterson.- 3. Romanian Spirituality in Ceausescu's 'Golden Epoch': Social Scientists Reconsider Atheism, Religion, and Ritual Culture; Zsuzsanna Magdo.- PART II: SCIENCE, RELIGION AND THE PARANORMAL.- 4. Inculcating Materialist Minds: Scientific Propaganda, Anti-Religion in the USSR during the Cold War; James T. Andrews.- 5. Tsiolkovskii and the Invention of Russian Cosmism: Science, Mysticism, and the Conquest of Nature at the Birth of Soviet Space Exploration; Asif Siddiqi.- 6. Witchdoctors Drive Sports Cars, Science Takes the Bus: An Anti-Superstition Alliance Across a Divided Germany; Monica Black.- PART III: THE SOCIALIST LIFE-CYCLE: BETWEEN SCIENCE AND RELIGION.- 7. Writing Rituals: The Sources of Socialist Rites of Passage in Hungary, 1958-1970; Helena Toth.- 8. In Search of Rationality and Objectivity: Origins and Development of East German Thanatology; Felix Robin Schulz.- PART IV: SOCIALISM AND THE PROBLEM OF RELIGIOUS HERITAGE.- 9. Religion and Nauka: Churches as Architectural Heritage in Soviet Leningrad; Catriona Kelly.- 10. The Antireligious Museum: Soviet Heterotopia between Transcending and Remembering Religious Heritage; Igor J. Polianski.- 11. Religion, Science and Cold War Anti-Communism: The 1949 Cardinal Mindszenty Show Trial; Paul Betts.-