{"product_id":"9780820451510","title":"The Academic Study of Religion during the Cold War: East and West","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhile the academic study of religion in the former Soviet Union had to contend with an official ideology of scientific atheism, such study in the West – particularly in the United States – was being (re)invented in the 1960s, during the very midst of the Cold War. The twenty-one contributions to this volume – by scholars from North America, Europe, Russia, and eastern Europe – examine the ideological and theological influences on the academic study of religion during the period from 1945 to 1989 and thus raise the question of whether an \u003ci\u003eacademic\u003c\/i\u003e study of religion \u003ci\u003e(Religionswissenschaft)\u003c\/i\u003e might be defined in ways that avoid the extremes of both ideology and theology.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47026728272112,"sku":"9780820451510","price":77.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780820451510_p0.jpg?v=1763747937","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780820451510","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}