Slovakia as a Country without Atheism but with a History of Atheization

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15210%2F20%3A73611988" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15210/20:73611988 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://obd.upol.cz/id_publ/333191875" target="_blank" >https://obd.upol.cz/id_publ/333191875</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Slovakia as a Country without Atheism but with a History of Atheization

Original language description

The text analyses relations between the churches and the state over the last hundred years. It focuses on intellectual movements and on the influence of intellectual leaders in the spread of Freethought, atheist and humanist thinking in various historical periods. On a third level of analysis, it describes the spread of atheist and religious ideas among the general population of Slovakia. Social, political and international changes over more than a hundred years in Slovakia have significantly influenced freethinking and atheist movements in the country. Beginning as the attitude of a small but growing vanguard, atheism and Freethought became parts of the ideology of a state that adopted materialism and atheism as sources of legitimation during the period of Communist Party rule in Czechoslovakia. After end of Communist Party rule in 1989, this approach to the world lost its legitimacy and became marginalized in Slovak society. Religion, in contrast, came to be an important component in the mobilization of collective identity in certain situations. As an effect of the integration of religion into the symbolic character of the Slovak Republic established in 1993, traditional Christian beliefs have grown increasingly prevalent in public life, exhibited even among people without religious affiliation.

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

26

Pages from-to

258-283

Number of pages of the book

331

Publisher name

Routledge

Place of publication

London

UT code for WoS chapter

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