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Církev v národních státech meziválečné Evropy
The Church in the Nation-States of Interwar Europe

Author(s): Jaroslav Šebek
Subject(s): Review
Published by: AV ČR - Akademie věd České republiky - Ústav pro soudobé dějiny

Summary/Abstract: Hans-Christian Maner and Martin Schulze Wessel (eds), Religion im Nationabtaat zwischen den Weltkriegen 1918-1939: Polen - Tschechoslowakei - Ungarn - Rumdnien (Forschungen zur Geschichte und Kultur der ostlichen Mitteleuropa, vol. 16). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2002, 220 pp. In three thematic blocks this volume explores denominational disputes during the formation of the successor states of Austria-Hungary and the relations between Church and State, or society and religion, in each of these countries in the interwar period. All the contributions, the reviewer says, point to the close link between political developments and shifts in the sphere of religion and the Church, as well as, in some cases, its symbiosis with...

  • Issue Year: XI/2004
  • Issue No: 01-02
  • Page Range: 237-240
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Czech
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