Religious Studies and Anti-Religious Propaganda in USSR in 1920-1930s
Journal: European Researcher
Year: 2016

The article shows, that in 1920-1930s simultaneously with the anti-religious propaganda, the history of world religions and religious movements, anthropological and sociological studies of religion, the history of religious freethinking and atheism were carried out. The systematic work on the study of the religious beliefs and practices in everyday life has been designed and created on the basis of large scale field research in accordance with the achievements of modern theoretical works. There