Religious affiliation in Czechia and Slovakia: Comparison and regional differentiation

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=7uq--TNsPF" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=7uq--TNsPF</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.31577/geogrcas.2023.75.4.20" target="_blank" >10.31577/geogrcas.2023.75.4.20</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Religious affiliation in Czechia and Slovakia: Comparison and regional differentiation

Original language description

The dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1993 also led to a different development of religiosity in Czechia and Slovakia in the last 30 years, which, however, continued to take into account the historical conditions of the last centuries. The current state of the religious structure of the population of Czechia and Slovakia is the result of the influence of several common (both states in the EU, open borders in the Schengen area, etc.), but also different factors (different role in the relationship between the church and the state, different number of migrants from abroad, migration from Slovakia to Czechia, etc.). The paper aims to analyse the development of religiosity of the population in both states over the last 30 years and to explain the causes of regional differen-tiation in Czechia and Slovakia. By comparing the results of the 1991 and 2021 censuses, we have identified not only spatial disparities at the national and regional level but also the driving forces that had the greatest impact on them. Secularization tendencies on the one hand and interest in new religiosity or alternative spirituality can be observed in both countries, but in the case of Czechia it is a more pronounced acceleration.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50701 - Cultural and economic geography

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Geografický časopis

ISSN

0016-7193

e-ISSN

2453-8787

Volume of the periodical

75

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

409-427

UT code for WoS article

001153476700005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85182248009