Between Simplification and Absurdity: The Czech Protestant Milieu, "New Orientation" and the Secret Police
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429331466-12" target="_blank" >10.4324/9780429331466-12</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Between Simplification and Absurdity: The Czech Protestant Milieu, "New Orientation" and the Secret Police
Original language description
The chapter aims to offer a better understanding of the (mis)uses of the label "New Orientation" (NO) by the Czechoslovak secret police (StB) between the 1960s and the 1980s. It analyzes the development of the StB position towards this generational group inside Czech protestant milieu. This position evolved from the original confusion and helplessness of the StB vis-a-vis complexities of Protestant milieu in the 1950s through its progressive activization against (and thus with the help of) a clearly contoured critical challenger inside this confessional group towards the, sometimes absurd, generalizing use of the label NO in the 1970s and 1980s (related to the agendas and operational patterns of the StB). The chapter thus makes more explicit some of the risks of too heavy reliance on secret police archives in the study of religion during communism.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
The Secret Police and the Religious Underground in Communist and Post-Communist Eastern Europe
ISBN
978-0-367-27999-8
Number of pages of the result
18
Pages from-to
192-209
Number of pages of the book
340
Publisher name
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Place of publication
Abingdon
UT code for WoS chapter
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