Křesťanství v českých zemích
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Année de publication
2025
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Spirituality, the lives of clergy, monks, and nuns, celibacy, the Christian calendar with its holidays, celebrations, and pilgrimages, as well as sacred architecture and Christian art, all contribute to shaping the character of the Czech landscape. The authors of the new volume of Velka dejiny (Great History) understand Christianity as a system of worldview and as a cultural element that has shaped the territory of the Czech state and its inhabitants for more than a thousand years.
Christianity came to pagan Central Europe as a political force that disrupted old cultural and power relations and established new ones. The church is difficult to separate from the state, but paradoxically, it soon begins to fight for its own emancipation, and the two institutions clash in more than one dispute.
The Hussite Revolution marks the beginning of a clash of ideas, and the coexistence of different denominations later gives rise to the concept of religious tolerance, which is accepted in some periods and rejected in others. Secularization, which we perceive as a product of the new era, has its roots in the late 18th century. At that time, with the development of industrialization, sacred time gave way to "industrial" time. However, the long 19th century also provided an opportunity for the first scientific reflections on religion, which form the basis of modern religious studies.
