The Academic Study of Religion during the Cold War: East and West (Toronto Studies in Religion)

While the academic study of religion in the former Soviet Union had to contend with an official ideology of scientific atheism, such study in the West-particularly in the United States-was being (re)invented in 1960s, during the very midst of the Cold War. The twenty-one contributions to this volume-by scholars from North America, Europe, Russia & eastern Europe-examine the ideological & theological influences on the academic study of religion during the period from 1945 to 1989 & thus raise the question of whether an academic study of religion (Religionswissenschaft) might be defined in ways that avoid the extremes of both ideology & theology.The Academic Study of Religion during the Cold War: East and West (Toronto Studies in Religion), with ISBN 9780820451510 and ISBN 0820451517.