The Social Democratic Atheist Movement in Interwar Ostravsko
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Social Democratic Atheist Movement in Interwar Ostravsko
Original language description
One of the most important, if not the most important, apolitical, non-physical education organizations in interwar Ostravsko was the Association of Czech Atheists (1919) which quickly became the Sdružení sociálnědemokratických bezvěrců [Association of Social Democratic Atheists] (1919), and from 1933 the Unie socialistických svobodných myslitelů [Union of Free Socialist Thinkers]. It was easily the largest atheist organization in the region and, together with Volná myšlenka [Free Thought] and the Communist atheist movement, was the main ideological rival to the Catholic Church and to religion in general. The development of an organised atheist movement in Ostravsko, capitalizing on ineffective Christian social teachings and the anti-Catholic position of the majority of the socialist-oriented workers, was facilitated by the establishment of the Czechoslovak state and the postwar liberalization of association life, regulated by an amendment to the law on the rights of associations from 1
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
AB - History
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2011
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Secularization and the Working Class: The Czech Lands and Central Europe in the 19th Century
ISBN
978-1-61097-014-3
Number of pages of the result
19
Pages from-to
174-192
Number of pages of the book
242
Publisher name
Wipf and Stock Publishers, Pickwick Publications
Place of publication
Eugene, Oregon
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