state atheism

Once in power, the party implemented a new socialist agenda, including the promotion of state atheism.

The Chinese government has implemented state atheism since 1949, which makes it difficult to ascertain data on the religious population figures.

State atheism in the Soviet Union was known as "gosateizm"

Nevertheless, by the early 1990s, after three decades of state atheism, Cuban society had become almost totally secularized.

While Russia experienced bleak decades of state atheism, the bells continued to sound, though for reasons more secular than spiritual.

Now that communism and state atheism had collapsed, was not occultism all the vogue in Russia?

During Soviet times, state atheism was encouraged.

Under the state atheism of many Eastern Bloc nations, religion was actively suppressed.

Note: State atheism, but traditionally pragmatic and eclectic.

State atheism became official policy, and Albania was declared the world's first atheist state.

Churches, sealed under a rigorous policy of state atheism for more than 20 years, have begun reopening as Christmas approaches.

However, decades of state atheism which ended in 1991 brought a decline in religious practice in all traditions.

Some critics contended that the author was misguided in drawing a link between state atheism and totalitarianism.

It moved to promote state atheism.

Johnson describes the production as "a product of state atheism ... Soviet propaganda at its best".

Nevertheless, humanism is diametrically opposed to state atheism.

"And for each mikvah the regime closed, we opened another," he said, referring to ritual baths forbidden under state atheism.

The result of state atheism was to transform the Church into a persecuted and martyred Church.

Where there is suppression of religious institutions and beliefs, this might be explicitly accompanied by atheistic doctrine as in state atheism.

For intolerance of religion itself, see Antireligion, Irreligion, and State atheism.

They are one of the more durable Hasidic sects, surviving here through seven decades of aggressive state atheism.

After 74 years of state atheism, the church has regained its place of honor, with both Easter and Christmas celebrated as national holidays.

The PDPA also carried out socialist land reforms and moved to promote state atheism.

All of its structures were dismantled in 1929, as part of the Soviet Union's ongoing policy of state atheism.

State atheism is the official promotion of atheism by a government, sometimes combined with active suppression of religious freedom and practice.