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

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

Edited By Tomáš Bubík, Atko Remmel, David Václavík Copyright 2020
348 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

346 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

346 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more


1 Studying Freethought and Atheism in Central and Eastern Europe: An Introduction
Atko Remmel, David Václavík and Tomáš Bubík


2 Bulgaria: Freethought and Atheism in the Shadow of Ethnophyletism
Dimitar Denkov, Georgi Vulchev and Valentina Gueorguieva


3 Anticlericalism, Nonreligiosity and Atheism in Croatia
Nikolina Hazdovac Bajic, Dinka Marinovic Jerolimov and Branko Ancic

  
4 Freethinkers and Atheists in the Czech Lands in the Twentieth Century
   Tomáš Bubík and David Václavík


5 Atheism and Freethought in Estonian Culture
   Atko Remmel and Meelis Friedenthal


6 Freethought, Atheism and Anticlericalism in Twentieth-Century Hungary
Margit Balogh and András Fejérdy


7 The Trajectories of Atheism and Secularization in Latvia: From the German Enlightenment to Contemporary Secularity
Mara Kiope, Inese Runce and Anita Stasulane


8 The Social History of Irreligion in Lithuania (from the Nineteenth Century to the Present): Between Marginalization, Monopoly and Disregard?
Milda Ališauskiene


9 Secularist Social Movements in Poland: History, Institutionalization, Repertoire of Actions
Henryk Hoffmann and Radoslaw Tyrala


10 Romania: Between Freethought, Atheism and Religion
Lucian Turcescu

11 Atheism’s Peaks and Valleys in Russia
Elena Stepanova


12 Slovakia as a Country without Atheism but with a History of Atheization
Miroslav Tížik


13 Atheism in the Context of the Secularization and Desecularization of Ukraine in the Twentieth Century
Anna Mariya Basauri Ziuzina and Oleg Kyselov


14 Nonreligion in the CEE Region: Some Remarks
Tomáš Bubík, David Václavík and Atko Remmel

Biography

Tomáš 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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