Religious relations in Czech Republic as well as in Slovakia
in comparative perspective
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Wschodnich Instytutu Studiów Międzynarodowych Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
Publication date: 2020-01-24
Studia Politologiczne 2012;23
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Despite over seventy years of common history of Czechoslovakia, including
the same religious policy and the same religious legislature, after disintegration
this state in 1993, relations between states and churches formed
differently in Czech Republic and Slovakia. The Czech Republic is one of
the most secularized European states with the highest rate of atheists in
the confessional structure. Only third part of Czechs believe and the largest
churches are the Roman Catholic Church, the Evangelical Church of Czech
Brethren and the Czechoslovak Hussite Church. In Slovakia the level of
religiousness among the citizens is still quite high. Above facts determinate
contemporary religious policy and place church and religion in both new
states. The aim of the present article is to look at religious relations in the
Czech Republic and Slovakia in comparative perspective.