Changes in Religious Values in the Czech Republic

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ID10566614
AuthorsJan Spousta (corresponding author)
Year2002
Volume38
Issue3
Pages345-364
Publication date2002-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCzech Sociological Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-0288 • E-ISSN: 2336-128X
PublisherInstitute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences (PUBLISHER • CZ)
DOI10.13060/00380288.2002.38.3.06
OpenAlexW2256635878
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited1

The article provides a brief sociological description of the religious development in the regions of Bohemia and Moravia over the past centuries and a more detailed analysis of the recent trends based on the data of the European Values Study from 1991 and 1999. The main conclusions for the present situation of the country are: (a) The secularisation continues, but not as quickly as 30 or 40 years ago; (b) Religious ideas of average citizens differ more and more from the traditional Christian dogmatic or atheistic ideology -religious syncretism and Far East inspirations are widespread in the Czech Republic now; (c) The paradoxical character of current trends in the Czech Roman Catholic church is stressed -threats to and the chances of the main Czech religious society have been dramatically altered since the revolution in 1989

Czech · Linguistics · Political science · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions

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