... communism's atheism. In practice, this framework did not succeed in creating a religious alliance against communism. In fact, it strengthened a religious consciousness that would increasingly challenge the state, its assumption that religions opposed communism, and the very principle of religious diversity...

... in the Hermitage, 29 in the Museum of the History of Religion and of Atheism, Leningrad, and 5 are of miscellaneous origin] Bibliography 247 Works on Chinese Folk Pictures 247 [These include works in Russian (wherein are listed 6 published and 28 unpublished items by Alexeev), in other Western languages (with 1...

... viewpoint and rules of ceremony in the Spring and Au- (p. 78). To show the spirit of materialism, tumn period; 4, Confucius and early Confu- atheism, and class struggle, three of the five cianists; 5, Mo Tzu and early Moists; 6, early sections in Chapter 3 (pp. 79-87 out of pp. 74- Taoists, Moist...

... to be a subversive force. After the demise of the Soviet Union and state support of atheism, the newly independent states of Central Asia—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan—drew on Islam as a source of identity but also sought to control expressions of Islam. Khalid's depiction...

... Republic of China's constitution guaranteed freedom of religious belief even though the Communist Party was committed to promoting atheism. Most central government policy in the 1950s did not directly target religion, but land reform took away the property that supported local temples, leading...

... in more detail how Ratnakīrti's apoha doctrine and his atheism flow from his core commitments to classical Buddhist attitudes. While such loose ends are tied up in chapters 5 and 6, the reader must work though about 100 pages of dense argumentation to get there. ...

... into the picture, including the failed effort by some actors to create a “religious alliance against communism” by allowing for a great deal of “religious freedom and diversity,” while opposing atheism. —JNW ...

..., with the Yi-Xie charged with interpreting Islamic law through both religious and socialist tenets. This process is characterized by negotiation, subterfuge, evasion, collaboration, and disagreement. Certain areas are zones of atheism: party members and those who work in government offices do not wear...

... family life, love, and chastity, although Gandhianism (approved) and atheism (disapproved) also appear as minor themes. The authors act as defenders and propounders of the traditional view of the Tamil woman as the chaste, submissive, and devoted wife and mother who upholds religion and maintains...

... interviewed many of the women writers, sent questionnaires to others, and read their fiction, Laksmi finds the authors as people and as writers to be socially, morally, and politically conservative. They write mostly about family life, love, and chastity, although Gandhianism (approved) and atheism...

... divide between U.S. liberal democracy/Christian values and Soviet collective communism/atheism, which dictated whatever happened in China and Asia, then for scholars in the post Cold War world, such a framework must be, rst of all, reexamined, subject to much more serious scrutiny. If for Luce all...

... generation, not least the present. Said Nursi, by contrast, never established an Islamic movement, nor did he ever discuss political and economic principles as intrinsic to Islam, posing instead by his strict embodiment of Qur'anic values "a living challenge to the atheism that was so thinly veiled...

... the persecutions of the past. Teaching Catholics to live the Gospel is far more difficult when they lack a focus on a neighborhood parish and live in an atmosphere of atheism reinforced by an educational system under Party control. Religion, nevertheless, could have a role in "instilling the moral discipline...

...-binding orator and tireless vociferous champion of a succession of causes or points of view. She had been a Fabian Socialist and an advocate of birth control. From an ardent theist, she had passed through skepticism to equally ardent atheism, then into leadership of a (then) new religious group...

... vociferous champion of a succession of causes or points of view. She had been a Fabian Socialist and an advocate of birth control. From an ardent theist, she had passed through skepticism to equally ardent atheism, then into leadership of a (then) new religious group, the mystical occult Theosophical Society...

... of Chicago Press, 2d. ed., 1963. xiv, the mandate of Heaven" and thus laid the 346. $6.50. foundation for atheism in later Confucianism This new edition of one of the three funda- (p. 103). mental classics of the Legalist tradition brings With respect to jen, in the History it is de- to mind the fact...

... emperors and ministers" (p. 167). On the other hand, Jesuits carefully queried Yang about his Confucian and Christian beliefs in an effort to gainsay what they considered "Chinese atheism." Matteo Ricci and others believed that Neo-Confucians unlike ancient Confucians conceived of Heaven as a "material...

... and a subjectivized atheism, and the religious freedom appearing in traditional Christianity" (p. 36) by looking for possible points of agreement between science and religion in a world where the "personal" relationship between man and God is constantly contradicted by the reign of "impersonal," indifferent natural...

... democracy/Christian values and Soviet collective communism/atheism, which dictated whatever happened in China and Asia, then for scholars in the post Cold War world, such a framework must be, rst of all, reexamined, subject to much more serious scrutiny. If for Luce all the available information must...

... regime. The Extraordinary Voyage was providing literary material for the reform movement and Pierre Bayle was preparing his arsenal of anti-Christian propaganda. Bayle's references to China are closely linked to his theory of the respectability of atheism for he accepted the Dominican position...