Albanian anti-religious state and profane ethnography: the world-forming element in Albanian socialist ethnography Cover Image

Shteti antifetar shqiptar dhe etnografia profanizuese: elementi botëformues në etnografinë socialiste shqiptare
Albanian anti-religious state and profane ethnography: the world-forming element in Albanian socialist ethnography

Author(s): Blerina Hankollari
Subject(s): Anthropology, Theology and Religion, Culture and social structure , Sociology of Religion, Politics and Identity
Published by: Akademia e Studimeve Albanologjike – Instituti i Antropologjisë Kulturore dhe Studimit të Artit
Keywords: Albanian mythology; cosmomorphic processes; Albanian socialist ethnography; cultural residues; anti-religious politics; scientific atheism;

Summary/Abstract: The anti-religious policy of the Albanian totalitarian state recognizes three phases. If the first phase was determined by a surplus of State violence and its mechanisms of terror and the second phase by delegitimizing policies of the religious institutions and clergy, in the third phase, State’s anti-religious policies were installed on a disciplinary level through the method of scientific atheism, aiming at scientific liquidation of the religious spectrum in Albania. During the dictatorial period, especially after 1967, Albanian socialist ethnography has contributed to the profanation of the Albanian mythological configurations, rites and practices, by serving the Albanian State’s atheistic programmatic, which aims at creating the one-world man.

  • Issue Year: 1/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 111-138
  • Page Count: 28
  • Language: Albanian