CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Kerekrétyová, Jana |
|---|---|
| Title | Christian Believers in Socialist Slovakia. Privatizing and Deprivatizing religion |
| Summary | Between 1969 and 1989, the Slovak socialist state claimed that its aim was to achieve a secular society, in which religion (perceived by Marxist theory as “backward”) would be substituted by “reasonable and scientifically proven knowledge.” However, looking at the experiences of Slovak Christian believers, I argue that what the socialist state de facto did was not secularization in terms of getting rid of religion, but rather making religion private. Thinking around the lines of the term privatization of religion from the secularization theory and José Casanova´s term deprivatization of religion I analyze the experiences and practices of believers in socialist Slovakia. I claim that privatization of religion was not a goal of the ideologists, but it was the response of believers to the actions and attitudes of the agents of secularization. Moreover, the pressure to privatize religion also had other effects, because it triggered the mobilization of believers and deprivatization of religion. |
| Supervisor | Naumescu, Vlad; Kopeček, Michal |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/kerekretyova_jana.pdf |
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