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Title Freethought and atheism in Central and Eastern Europe : the development of secularity and nonreligion / edited by Tomáš Bubík, Atko Remmel, David Václavík
Published London ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 331 pages)
Series Routledge studies in religion
Routledge studies in religion.
Summary "This book provides the first comprehensive overview of atheism, secularity and non-religion in Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In contrast to scholarship that has focused on the 'decline of religion' and secularization theory, the book builds upon recent trends to focus on the 'rise of non-religion' itself. While the label of 'post-communism' might suggest a generalized perception of the region, this survey reveals that the precise developments in each country before, after and even during the communist era are surprisingly diverse. A multinational team of contributors provide interdisciplinary case studies covering Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Romania and Bulgaria. This approach utilises perspectives from social and intellectual history in combination with sociology of religion in order to cover the historical development of secularity and secular thought, complemented with sociological data. The study is framed by methodological and analytical chapters. Offering an important geographical perspective to the study of freethought, atheism, secularity and non-religion, this wide-ranging book will be of significant interest to scholars of twentieth-century social and intellectual history, sociology of religion and non-religion, cultural and religious studies, philosophy and theology"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Tomš̀ Bubík is Associate Professor at Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic Atko Remmel is a senior research fellow at Tartu University, Estonia, and research fellow at Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic David Vaclavik is an Associate professor of religious studies at Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University in Brno and Faculty of Education of Technical University in Liberec, Czech Republic
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Subject Free thought -- Europe, Central -- History -- 20th century
Free thought -- Europe, Central -- History -- 21st century
Free thought -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century
Free thought -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 21st century
Atheism -- Europe, Central -- History -- 20th century
Atheism -- Europe, Central -- Hisitory -- 21st century
Atheism -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century
Atheism -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 21st century
Irreligion -- Europe, Central -- History -- 20th century
Irreligion -- Europe, Central -- History -- 21st century
Irreligion -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century
Irreligion -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 21st century
Secularism -- Europe, Central -- History -- 20th century
Secularism -- Europe, Central -- History -- 21st century
Secularism -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century
Secularism -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 21st century
RELIGION -- Atheism.
RELIGION -- Agnosticism.
RELIGION -- Religion, Politics & State.
Atheism
Free thought
Irreligion
Secularism
Central Europe
Eastern Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Bubík, Tomáš, 1967- editor.
Remmel, Atko, editor.
Václavík, David, editor.
LC no. 2019052670
ISBN 9780429276071
0429276079
9781000039832
1000039838
9781000039757
1000039757
9781000039795
100003979X