Atheist Secularism and its Discontents

1. Introduction: Atheist Secularism and Its Discontents; Tam T. T. Ngo; Justine B. Quijada PART I: GENEALOGIES 2. God and the Vietnamese Revolution: Religious Organizations in the Emergence of Today's Vietnam; Jayne Werner 3. The Socialist Interregnum and Buddhist Resurgence in Laos; Grant Evans 4. Conflict and Coexistence of Church and State Authorities in (Post)Communist Poland; Agnieszka Pasieka 5. Secularization without Secularism: The Political-Religious Configuration of Post-89 China; Ji Zhe 6. North Korea's Culture of Commemoration; Heonik Kwon 7. Was Soviet Society Secular? Undoing Equations between Communism and Religion; Sonja Luehrmann PART II: CREATIVE DESTRUCTION 8. Apologetics of Religion and Science: Conversion Projects in Contemporary China; Dan Smyer Yu 9. Perun vs Jesus Christ: Communism and the emergence of Neo-paganism in the USSR; Victor A. Shnirelman 10. Conversion to Be: The Christian Encounters of North Korean Migrants in Late Cold War Korea; Jin-heon Jung 11. The Role of Religious Art in Post-communist Russia; Clemena Antonova 12. Chinese Socialism and the Household Idiom of Religious Engagement; Adam Yuet Chau 13. Awkward Secularity between Atheism and New Religiosity in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan; Mathjis Pelkmans