Freethinkers and atheists in the Czech Lands in the 20th century

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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Freethinkers and atheists in the Czech Lands in the 20th century
Original language description
Currently, the Czech Republic is characterized by a high level of nonreligion and religious indifference. The chapter discusses the development of nonreligious thinking in its various forms during the 20th and 21st centuries while focusing especially on its connection to political history. At the same time, nonreligion and atheism are analyzed outside of the direct relationship to religion, i.e. not as its negation but, on the contrary, are viewed as independent phenomena of their own. The chapter centers on several key eras, specifically on the period growing out of the Enlightenment in its criticism of the Church and clericalism and particularly in the advancement of the Freethought movement peaking in the interwar Czechoslovakia (1918 – 1938). Another era is the post-1948 Czechoslovakia in which the Freethought did not continue but the so-called scientific atheism of Marx-Leninism became the official atheism propagated by the Communist state. Despite the state promotion of the unified atheism, some relatively independent variations of Marxist thinking formed among the intellectual elite. The third period is after 1989 when Czech society underwent fundamental changes concerning the role of atheism and other kinds of nonreligion and since when nonreligion has evolved independently.
Czech name
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Czech description
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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
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
Freethought and Atheism in Central and Eastern Europe: The Development of Secularity and Non-Religion
ISBN
978-0-367-22631-2
Number of pages of the result
26
Pages from-to
58-83
Number of pages of the book
331
Publisher name
Routledge
Place of publication
London and New York
UT code for WoS chapter
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