Secularized, Atheistic or Alternatively Religious Society?: Religious Situation in the Czech Republic in the Light of Recent Sociological Studies

Abstract

The paper analyzes systematically the religious situation in the Czech Republic especially from three perspectives: religious affiliation and relation to organized religion; church attendance; individual religiosity and religious practice in the broader sense. Then, paradoxes of Czech society in relation to their position of religion are presented and religious situation in current Czech Republic is systematically analyzed.

Keywords

• Religious situation
• Czech Republic
• sociology of religion
• religiosity
• atheism