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

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Výsledek na webu

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60304 - Religious studies

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA18-11345S" target="_blank" >GA18-11345S: Ateismus, volnomyšlenkářství a sekularizace v zemích střední a východní Evropy ve 20. a 21. století</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2020

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Freethought and Atheism in Central and Eastern Europe: The Development of Secularity and Non-Religion

ISBN

978-0-367-22631-2

Počet stran výsledku

26

Strana od-do

58-83

Počet stran knihy

331

Název nakladatele

Routledge

Místo vydání

London and New York

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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