Отношение к религии украинской позднесоветской атеистической интеллигенции второй половины 1980-х гг. (по материалам журнала «Человек и мир»)
Attitude to religion of the Ukrainian late soviet atheistic intelligentsia of the second half of the 1980s (based on the materials of the magazine “Human and the world”)

Summary/Abstract: In the center of this research is the understanding of religious life by the late Soviet scientific intelligentsia of the Ukrainian SSR and the formation of mental attitudes towards religion in society. The relevance of the topic is determined by the significant influence of these mental attitudes on the formation of the position of modern Ukrainian society in the church issue. For the analysis, publications were selected in the journal “Human and the World”, which in Soviet times was the mouthpiece of the atheistic intelligentsia, and since September 1990 has become the main religious studies journal of Ukraine. The conclusions about the very cautious attitude of the late Soviet scientific intelligentsia of Ukraine in the second half of the 1980s to the growing public interest in religion are substantiated. The scientific intelligentsia, in its attitude to religion and the church, relied on stable cabinet images and clichés. In understanding the essence of spiritual life, the primacy of public benefit was characteristic. In the ideological sense, atheist intellectuals sought to liberate ethics from any form of religious justification, the autonomy of morality. The fear of being shackled by religious dogma and religious sanction prompted them to fight for non-religious morality, to prevent the influence of the church on society in every possible way, or to try to control this influence. Replacing it with secular “spirituality” was declared as the main method of combating religion.

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