Times Higher Education reviews a recent book on The Plot to Kill God: Findings from the Soviet Experiment in Secularization, which the reviewer takes as a condemnation of “scientific atheism”:
Froese’s study of the relentless war on religion waged by the Soviet system underscores the violence of atheism and shows that forced secularisation was little more than will-to-power, masquerading as emancipation and liberation. Interestingly, his research also provides some empirical evidence for humanity’s natural orientation towards the supernatural.
Continue reading at Times Higher Education. Also, from April, an interview with the author at Religion Dispatches.