| BALÍK, Stanislav. The Second Vatican Council and the Czechoslovak State. Religion, State and Society. Oxford: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013, vol. 41, No 1, p. 5-17. ISSN 0963-7494. |
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@article{1094528,
author = {Balík, Stanislav},
article_location = {Oxford},
article_number = {1},
keywords = {Roman Catholic Church; Second Vatican Council; Czechoslovakia; Communist Regime},
language = {eng},
issn = {0963-7494},
journal = {Religion, State and Society},
title = {The Second Vatican Council and the Czechoslovak State},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09637494.2013.778536},
volume = {41},
year = {2013}
}
TY - JOUR
ID - 1094528
AU - Balík, Stanislav
PY - 2013
TI - The Second Vatican Council and the Czechoslovak State
JF - Religion, State and Society
VL - 41
IS - 1
SP - 5-17
EP - 5-17
PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
SN - 09637494
KW - Roman Catholic Church
KW - Second Vatican Council
KW - Czechoslovakia
KW - Communist Regime
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09637494.2013.778536
N2 - The 50th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council in October 1962 has lent a renewed sense of urgency to some questions which have not yet been adequately answered in the field of the social and human sciences. This article focuses on the relationships between the state, the Catholic Church and the Second Vatican Council in Czechoslovakia. Czechoslovakia was a good example of a non-democratic regime which limited political and social pluralism. Our present state of knowledge allows us to assume that the Czechoslovak communist regime sought to regulate and channel the attitudes of the country’s Catholic Church towards the Council, that the regime did not underestimate the importance of the Council and that from the very beginning it endeavoured to make use of the Council for its own ends, whether by seeking elements supporting the communist position or by neutralising possible anticommunist steps as well as those steps that would revitalise Catholicism as an alternative world view to communism. First I focus on the state’s influence on the selection of the Czechoslovak delegation to the Council. After examining these personal aspects, I move on to analyse the various ways in which the communist regime attempted to impede the Catholic Church’s acceptance and application of the results of the Council.
ER -
BALÍK, Stanislav. The Second Vatican Council and the Czechoslovak State. \textit{Religion, State and Society}. Oxford: Routledge, Taylor \&{} Francis Group, 2013, vol.~41, No~1, p.~5-17. ISSN~0963-7494.
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