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Náboženské symboly a náboženská svoboda v sekulární Evropě
Religious Symbols and Religious Freedom in the Secular Europe

Author(s): Kateřina Děkanovská
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence
Published by: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Nakladatelství Karolinum
Keywords: religion; secularism; religious symbols; freedom of religions and beliefs

Summary/Abstract: Particularly, it sets a basic typology of religious symbols and explains its meanings and dynamics. Similarly, it shows the secular alternative – symbols of secularism with latent sacred meaning. Finally, the author discusses the current relation between European secular majority and religious minority in context of the struggle for democracy, social as well as personal freedom and recent rise of extremism presented as religious.

  • Issue Year: 62/2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 11-21
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Czech