Section: 22 May | Religion and Society (RL022) [SS 22/23]

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The aim of this course is to understand the complex and even contradictory role of religion in the history and present of Central European societies. The primary focus will be on the Czech Republic, but also countries like Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Austria, Germany and the Baltic state of Estonia will be examined under this perspective. Some of these countries like the Czech Republic are very secularized (only about 14 % membership of religious communities), whereas others rather belong to the most religious in Europe (Slovakia). These differences lead to the question whether the role of religion in these countries is also dissimilar or even incomparable, or whether it is possible to define a common denominator for the public function of religion in Central European society.

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- Religion and Voting Patterns: How do believers vote in European elections? (Launa)
Margarete Scherer, Euroscepticism and Protestant Heritage: The Role of Religion on EU Issue Voting, in: Politics and Religion, 13 (2020), 119–149.
- Secularization Revisited: Is the secularization theory (the more human development, the less religion) still valid? (Luca)
Kostanca Dhima, Matt Golder, Secularization Theory and Religion, in: Politics and Religion, 14 (2021), 37–53

- The Perspective for Religion: What can be expected in the next decades concerning the role of religion in society? (Daniel)
Kees de Groot, Three Types of Liquid Religion, in: Implicit Religion, Vol. 11, No. 3 (2008), 277-296
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