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Czech Republic as a Laic State
Karola, Petr ; Pavlíček, Václav (advisor) ; Bartoň, Michal (referee) ; Reschová, Jana (referee)
1 Název disertační práce, abstrakt a 3 klíčová slova v anglickém jazyce Czech Republic as a Laic State Abstract The dissertation on The Czech Republic as a Laic State focuses on the complicated relationship between the Czech state, churches, and religious societies, which on one hand symbolizes centuries of efforts trying to separate the state from the churches (especially the Roman Catholic one) and on the other hand a long struggle for religious freedom. Its main research question is whether the Czech Republic is a laic state. Despite its obvious importance and topicality, this topic is not much addressed in contemporary Czech constitutional law theory. The thesis is divided into six extensive chapters containing both constitutional and state law aspects of the relationship between the state and churches, as well as human rights theory concerning religious freedom. An extensive historical and legal analysis of history has not been omitted as well. In the second chapter, the reader will thus learn what the principle of laïcité is, from which the present model of the laic state has developed, and what its roots are. There is also discussed the key terms like secularization and desecularization. The third chapter is devoted to the theoretical foundations of the thesis. It is dedicated to the analysis of...
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A lay state - constitutional safeguards and legislative implementation
Szalonnás, Ondřej ; Suchánek, Radovan (advisor) ; Pavlíček, Václav (referee)
This dissertation deals with the relationship between state and religions as social phenomena and examines it from several perspectives in order to review the meaning of the term "lay state." In the first chapter, it analyses the common history of states and religions, describes the important role of religion in the ancient states and then focuses on the rise of Christianity and its spread in the Roman Empire, its role after the fall of Rome and in the formation of the new social and state structure of Europe. It discusses the fight for supremacy between Popes and Emperors and the fall of the temporal power of the church. It suggests that neither religion, nor states can prevail over each other because of their different nature. The church failed in its attempt to usurp temporal power over states, and so did the totalitarian states of the twentieth century in their aspiration to annihilate religion and to substitute it with their atheistic ideologies. In the next chapter the dissertation examines international documents concerned with the human rights, especially with the freedom of religion. It describes the shift in its perception: initially viewed as a domain the states should not interfere in, is now accepted as a domain that gives rise to several positive obligations that are incumbent on states to...
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A lay state - constitutional safeguards and legislative implementation
Szalonnás, Ondřej ; Suchánek, Radovan (advisor) ; Pavlíček, Václav (referee)
This dissertation deals with the relationship between state and religions as social phenomena and examines it from several perspectives in order to review the meaning of the term "lay state." In the first chapter, it analyses the common history of states and religions, describes the important role of religion in the ancient states and then focuses on the rise of Christianity and its spread in the Roman Empire, its role after the fall of Rome and in the formation of the new social and state structure of Europe. It discusses the fight for supremacy between Popes and Emperors and the fall of the temporal power of the church. It suggests that neither religion, nor states can prevail over each other because of their different nature. The church failed in its attempt to usurp temporal power over states, and so did the totalitarian states of the twentieth century in their aspiration to annihilate religion and to substitute it with their atheistic ideologies. In the next chapter the dissertation examines international documents concerned with the human rights, especially with the freedom of religion. It describes the shift in its perception: initially viewed as a domain the states should not interfere in, is now accepted as a domain that gives rise to several positive obligations that are incumbent on states to...
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