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List of contents
1 Studying Freethought and Atheism in Central and Eastern Europe: An Introduction-Atko Remmel, David Václavík and Tomáš Bubík; 2 Bulgaria: Freethought and Atheism in the Shadow of Ethnophyletism-Dimitar Denkov, Georgi Vulchev and Valentina Gueorguieva; 3 Anticlericalism, Nonreligiosity and Atheism in Croatia
Nikolina Hazdovac Bajić, Dinka Marinović Jerolimov and Branko Ančić; 4 Freethinkers and Atheists in the Czech Lands in the Twentieth Century-Tomáš Bubík and David Václavík; 5 Atheism and Freethought in Estonian Culture-Atko Remmel and Meelis Friedenthal; 6 Freethought, Atheism and Anticlericalism in Twentieth-Century Hungary-Margit Balogh and András Fejérdy; 7 The Trajectories of Atheism and Secularization in Latvia: From the German Enlightenment to Contemporary Secularity- Māra Kiope, Inese Runce and Anita Stasulane; 8 The Social History of Irreligion in Lithuania (from the Nineteenth Century to the Present): Between Marginalization, Monopoly and Disregard? -Milda Ališauskienė; 9 Secularist Social Movements in Poland: History, Institutionalization, Repertoire of Actions-Henryk Hoffmann and Radosław Tyrała; 10 Romania: Between Freethought, Atheism and Religion- Lucian Turcescu; 11 Atheism’s Peaks and Valleys in Russia- Elena Stepanova; 12 Slovakia as a Country without Atheism but with a History of Atheization- Miroslav Tížik; 13 Atheism in the Context of the Secularization and Desecularization of Ukraine in the Twentieth Century-Anna Mariya Basauri Ziuzina and Oleg Kyselov; 14 Nonreligion in the CEE Region: Some Remarks-Tomáš Bubík, David Václavík and Atko Remmel
About the author
Tomáš Bubík is Associate Professor at Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic
Atko Remmel is a senior research fellow at Tartu University, Estonia, and research fellow at Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic
David Vaclavik is an Associate professor of religious studies at Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University in Brno and Faculty of Education of Technical University in Liberec, Czech Republic
Summary
This book provides the first comprehensive overview of atheism, secularity and non-religion in Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and builds upon recent trends to focus on the ‘rise of non-religion’ itself.
