The Social History of Irreligion in Lithuania (from the Nineteenth Century to the Present): Between Marginalization, Monopoly and Disregard?

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://obd.upol.cz/id_publ/333191871" target="_blank" >https://obd.upol.cz/id_publ/333191871</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Social History of Irreligion in Lithuania (from the Nineteenth Century to the Present): Between Marginalization, Monopoly and Disregard?

Original language description

This chapter analyzes the social history of irreligion – freethinking, nonbelief and atheism – in Lithuania starting from the nineteenth century to the present day. It aims to disclose how the phenomenon of irreligion is manifested in the religious field of Lithuania dominated by Roman Catholicism. The chapter covers three periods of the country’s history starting from the first Republic of Lithuania (1918–1938), the Second World War and Soviet period (1939–1989) and the second Republic of Lithuania (1989 – to present) and is structured accordingly. The author argues that the position of the phenomenon of irreligion in Lithuania differed under various political regimes. During the periods of independence of the Republic of Lithuania, irreligion was marginalized and/or disregarded due to the dominant position of Roman Catholicism. Throughout the Soviet period, irreligion in the form of scientific atheism was provided as the main system of meaning for the country’s population in parallel to the limitations of freedom and rights of other religious beliefs and practices. Social research demonstrates that in contemporary Lithuania irreligion is considered to be on the outskirts of public and religious life, atheism being associated with communism and considered a threat to the Catholic majority.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

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

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

978-1-03-217379-5

Number of pages of the result

22

Pages from-to

155-176

Number of pages of the book

331

Publisher name

Routledge

Place of publication

London

UT code for WoS chapter

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