The Limits of Religious Plurality
The Pentecostal Movement in Post-Stalinist Czechoslovakia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13039809 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martin Pácha (0000-0002-8202-3251, Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of History, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 407-423 |
| Publication date | 2022-10-02 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Politics Religion & Ideology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2156-7697 • E-ISSN: 2156-7689 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/21567689.2022.2144259 |
| OpenAlex | W4309074182 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This article examines the religious conditions in Post-Stalinist Czechoslovakia on the example of the Pentecostal movement. It enlarges the classical research scope done on a church-state axis by focusing on a minority religious group, which is not only oppressed by the system driven by atheistic imperatives but also must compete with the rival religious organization. By using the concept of the religious field, the study argues that the state socialist system was caught between two different roles. The state tried to diminish the belief in God, but also it was supposed to operate as a guarantor of religious life. The state division of roles enabled believers to take an active part in negotiating their religious independence and even when they failed, it shows that they were not passive objects controlled by the state, but active actors with an agency of their own
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Field (mathematics · Independence (probability theory · Movement (music · Negotiation · Political science · Religious organization · Scope (computer science · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Soviet and Russian History
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |