Sto let Českobratrské církve evangelické a Církve československé (husitské) : náboženské organizace, společenská poptávka a racionalita řízení

• Authors: Zdeněk R. Nešpor

Title variants

EN

Centennial jubilee of the Protestant church of the Czech brethren and the Czechoslovak (Hussite) church : religious organisations, public demand and managerial efficiency

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The article analyses organisational development of two main established non-Catholic churches in the Czech Lands, i.e. the Protestant Church of the Czech Brethren (Českobratrská církev evangelická) and the Czechoslovak (Hussite) Church (Církev československá /husitská/), since their establishment in 1918 and 1920 to the present. Author shows that particular congregations were established more or less according to public demand in the first decades, but the structure of the churches remained in large degree stable, with just a little reaction to growing secularization and religious differentiation (including spatial) in the second half of the 20th and early 21st centuries. The path dependency was even deeper in case of higher organization entities, Protestant seniorates and Hussite dioceses, that hardly respond to regional differences in religiosity. The two “modern” denominations starting with distinct flexibility in comparison with the Roman Catholic Church (mostly at expenses of the very church), have become quite conservative in their organisations in few decades, and as such they are not able to compete with smaller, nonconformist denominations nowadays.

Keywords

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Czech Lands; church; religion; religious geography; religious organisations; Protestantism

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Český časopis historický (The Czech Historical Review)
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 116
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 1059-1078
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

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Zdeněk R. Nešpor

• Český časopis historický, redakce, Historický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Prosecká 76, 190 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic

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Sean  Miller

• Český časopis historický, redakce, Historický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Prosecká 76, 190 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic