Atheist Secularism and its Discontents: A Comparative Study of Religion and Communism in Eurasia

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction: Atheist Secularism and Its Discontents....Pages 1-26
Front Matter....Pages 27-27
God and the Vietnamese Revolution: Religious Organizations in the Emergence of Today’s Vietnam....Pages 29-53
The Socialist Interregnum and Buddhist Resurgence in Laos....Pages 54-69
Conflict and Coexistence of Church and State Authorities in (Post)Communist Poland....Pages 70-91
Secularization without Secularism: The Political-Religious Configuration of Post-1989 China....Pages 92-111
North Korea’s Culture of Commemoration....Pages 112-133
Was Soviet Society Secular? Undoing Equations between Communism and Religion....Pages 134-151
Front Matter....Pages 153-153
Apologetics of Religion and Science: Conversion Projects in Contemporary China....Pages 155-172
Perun vs Jesus Christ: Communism and the Emergence of Neo-paganism in the USSR....Pages 173-189
Conversion to Be: The Christian Encounters of North Korean Migrants in Late Cold War Korea....Pages 190-209
The Role of Religious Art in Post-Communist Russia....Pages 210-224
Chinese Socialism and the Household Idiom of Religious Engagement....Pages 225-243
Awkward Secularity between Atheism and New Religiosity in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan....Pages 244-255
Back Matter....Pages 256-293