The relationship between the advocates of "scientific atheism" and various religious groups has been uneasy at best.

Courses in scientific atheism were introduced at all universities and high schools at the beginning of the 1960s.

In 1862 he published a pamphlet attacking scientific atheism.

State propaganda tended to focus more on promoting "scientific atheism" rather than active persecution of believers.

It also called for publication of a basic textbook on scientific atheism, which soon appeared and by 1964 had a circulation of 50,000 copies.

I would like to wrest both science and religion from the dogmatists of scientific atheism and religious fundamentalism.

Anti-religious museums began to be closed in the late 1930s and chairs of "scientific atheism" were abolished in universities.

In 1959 there was introduced a mandatory course called 'The Foundations of Scientific Atheism' in all higher learning institutions.

In particular, the courses of Scientific Communism and Scientific Atheism were mandatory in the universities.

Naturalism, scientific materialism, or scientific atheism asserts that the organic complexity and sophisticationof the living world is explicable in wholly physico-material terms.

Marxist-Leninist "Scientific Atheism" and the Study of Religion and Atheism.

A new publication, 'Problems of Scientific Atheism', came to replace 'Problems of History and Atheism' in 1966.

The classes also were criticized as being reminiscent of the forced study of communism or scientific atheism during Soviet times, with one mandatory ideology being substituted with another.

If a book about 18th century seafaring or scientific atheism unexpectedly tops the charts, rest assured that you will be able to read a dozen like it in a year or two.

"Scientific Atheism: A Christian Response," presented at St. Andrew's Presbyterian College, Laurinburg, NC.

Artemy (Leonid Gromov), professor of Scientific Atheism at the Leningrad State University, is visiting his brother in a small town neighboring Leninsk.

They discovered that mandatory course offerings in the U.S.S.R. include "Scientific Atheism," "History of the Communist Party" and "War Medicine."

Surveys in Moravia and Slovakia found that "scientific atheism" had not caught on quite as much as the Communist Party might have hoped after twenty years of party rule.

He cites an example of the CRA joining with another state agency, The Institute of Scientific Atheism, in combating the resurgence of Ukrainian Catholic activists.

Yet across the country, a whirlwind of formal changes has already put a great distance between this academic year and the time, just three years ago, when Czechs and Slovaks studied scientific atheism and the legal relationships between state enterprises.

No doubt these memories were in the minds of the 39 artists who raised their works in the Sakharov Museum to warn against a state that had enforced "scientific atheism" so recently now embracing a national church with the same ardor.

Propaganda films from the first years of the Soviet system show enthusiastic crowds, and sometimes, in the background, weeping elderly women, watching the officially sanctioned looting of churches, which were then demolished or turned into granaries or museums of 'scientific atheism'.

The atheistic journal 'Problems of Scientific Atheism' (Voprosy nauchnogo ateizma) in the late 1970s began to question the explanation that the perseverance of religious beliefs in the USSR was simply a survival of the pre-revolutionary past.

He went to college in Kishinev, excelling in physics, and got a job teaching high school science and "scientific atheism," a discipline, he said, "that sought to prove that there is no God and that those who believe in God are mentally ill."

Re: "A Theory of Scientific Atheism" (New Jersey Q & A, Feb. 5): John Koster's book, "The Atheist Syndrome," is but another illustration of what has come to be called the "psychologizing" of social phenomena.