Opening his chapter on “The Faith” of Bolshevism (chapter 3), Yuri Slezkine writes that “The most obvious question about [the]…
A matter of life and death
communism
Millenarianism in the Soviet Union and Maoist China
As late modernizers, both Russian and Chinese societies urgently catapulted themselves into modernity, not through the gradual capitalist rationalization process…
Where is America in human rights history?
What is the place of the United States in the history of Christian human rights? This question is worth entertaining…
Gazing into the future
The efflorescence of religious life in China over the past thirty-some years has been truly amazing. In the rural areas…
Stand still and watch
How will the relationship between the state and religion in China evolve in the next decade, presumably under the leadership…
Governing religion with one eye closed
Everyone in China knows that official religious policy has only a nominal relationship to religious practice. The complaint comes from…
The Communist Party and the future of religion in China
This short essay sketches out the different views that may be identified within the Chinese Communist Party as we look…
Opiate of the masses with Chinese characteristics
Before making projections about the future of religion and secularity in China, we should first take a step back and…
Contradictions of religious freedom and religious repression
The collapse of the Soviet Union marked the end of seventy years of anti-religious policies---of a period in which religious…
“Partizanstvo” and Communist thought in WWII Yugoslavia
The years of World War II---when thousands of Yugoslav workers, peasants, intellectuals and students joined the Communist-led Partisans---provided the foundation…