Cultural and Social Continuity and Discontinuity as Factors of Non-religio :. The Case of the Czech Borderlands

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sav.sk/journals/uploads/12311410SN.2022.4.40.pdf" target="_blank" >https://www.sav.sk/journals/uploads/12311410SN.2022.4.40.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.31577/SN.2022.4.40" target="_blank" >10.31577/SN.2022.4.40</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Cultural and Social Continuity and Discontinuity as Factors of Non-religio :. The Case of the Czech Borderlands

Original language description

The Czech Republic is considered one of the most atheistic countries globally. One of the reasons used to explain the high level of secularization of Czech society and the high level of distrust in religion and religious institutions is the specific historical conditions. In this context, the political anti-Catholicism of a large part of the Czech political elite during the period of the so-called First Czechoslovak Republic (1918 – 1938) and the influence of the communist regime are mentioned in particular. In my paper, I will try to show that other factors probably played a key role, especially the significant socio-demographic changes associated with the displacement of the German population after the Second World War. World War II and the disruption of traditional ties in the Czech countryside as a result of the so-called collectivization of the countryside (the top-directed elimination of private agriculture and the dismantling of traditional rural structures). Along with this, I will try to show that most of the existing explanations overestimate the role of ideological arguments against religion and, on the contrary, underestimate the influence of factors such as the disruption of collective memory, the reduction of the public visibility of religion and the role of (non-) religious socialization.

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

60304 - Religious studies

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA18-11345S" target="_blank" >GA18-11345S: Atheism, Freethought and Secularization in Central and Eastern European Countries in the 20th and 21st Centuries</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Slovenský národopis/Slovak Ethnology

ISSN

1335-1303

e-ISSN

1339-9357

Volume of the periodical

70

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

23

Pages from-to

507-529

UT code for WoS article

000922742400005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85147423567