Ecumenical Aspects of the Financing of Churches and Religious Communities in the Czech Republic

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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

Ecumenical Aspects of the Financing of Churches and Religious Communities in the Czech Republic

Original language description

This contribution deals with the financing of churches and religious communities in the territory of the Czech Republic. Based on the description of the assets changes since the foundation of Czechoslovakia in 1918, and especially during the period of the communist regime since 1948, it describes the very slow and difficult realisation of the settlement of property relations between the state and churches and religious communities since 1990. It presents especially two draft laws on this topic, the failed first one from 2008 and the successful second one from 2012. Focusing on the ecumenical aspects, it demonstrates the search for a common position of the churches and religious communities towards the question of economic separation from the state, even at the cost of a greater degree of uncertainty and insecurity, but in favour of the real autonomy of them. This position formed the basis of the first failed bill of Property Settlement Act of 2008 and it was accomplished at the turn of 2012/2013, in a modified way, which was less favourable for the churches and religious communities. As expected, it has brought about great legal, economic, and social problems that the churches and religious communities still have to deal with today. The indisputable result of property settlement is not only the strengthening of the autonomy of churches and religious communities, but also the deepening of the ecumenical dialogue and ecumenical co-operation.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50501 - Law

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Ecumeny and Law

ISSN

2353-4877

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

4

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

305-320

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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