TY - JOUR AU - Kyselov, Oleg PY - 2017/04/15 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - “On Periphery”: The Department of Scientific Atheism in the Structure of the Institute of Philosophy JF - Filosofska Dumka JA - Fildumka VL - IS - 6 SE - ARTICLES DO - UR - https://dumka.philosophy.ua/index.php/fd/article/view/54 SP - 48-53 AB - <p>The article deals with the activity of the department of scientific atheism based on archive&nbsp;materials and interviews with former employees. The author concludes that the department&nbsp;had two types of activity: 1) research, which, in spite of the limited methodology and&nbsp;negative reception of religion, we can call religious studies; 2) cooperation with the&nbsp;Communist Party organizations in the field of antireligious propaganda and atheistic education.&nbsp;Due to the specifics of its problematic the department of scientific atheism was&nbsp;only nominally integrated to the Institute of philosophy</p> ER -