Post-Communist Church-State Settlements in Central Europe: Why Did It Take So Long in the Czech Republic?
One of the important issues in the post-communist transition was to fix relations between the state and religious groups. Communist regimes were characterized by militant atheist ideology and often aggressive anti-church policies. The extent of anti-church measures differed across countries, ranging...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2020]
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2020, Volume: 62, Issue: 4, Pages: 654-670 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Church
/ State
/ Czech Republic
/ Middle Europe
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| IxTheo Classification: | KBK Europe (East) SA Church law; state-church law |
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| Summary: | One of the important issues in the post-communist transition was to fix relations between the state and religious groups. Communist regimes were characterized by militant atheist ideology and often aggressive anti-church policies. The extent of anti-church measures differed across countries, ranging from a rather liberal situation in Poland and East Germany to the most violent in the Soviet Union, Albania, and Czechoslovakia. However, the communists were, at best, partially successful in their attempt to secularize the societies they governed. Religion has recovered in the post-communist period and has become an important element in post-communist societies. The natural first step after the... |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csz083 |