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Castle and Cathedral
2017
Overview
This book takes a new approach to interwar Prague by addressing religion as an integral part of the city’s cultural history. Berglund views Prague’s cultural history in the broader context of religious change and secularization in 20th-century Europe. Based on detailed knowledge of sources, the monograph explores the interdisciplinary linkages between politics, architecture and theology in the building of symbolism and a “new mythology\" of the first Czechoslovak republic (1918-1938). Berglund´s text provides an important service for understanding both Czech history as well as current Czech political debate. The author’s method can be characterized as culture history, able to connect several disciplines, emphasizing common topic (religion, politics, symbolics). Modern Czech elites, superficially characterized as “ateistic\", appears in a new light to be deeply religious, a transition from more traditional, (mostly) Catholic religiosity, to a concept of a new, modern, ethical religion. The study incorporates biographical research, focusing on three principal characters: Tomás Garrigue Masaryk, Czechoslovakia’s first president; his daughter Alice Garrigue Masaryková, founding director of the Czechoslovak Red Cross; and Joze Plecnik, the Slovenian architect who directed the renovations of Prague Castle.
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press,Central European University Press
Subject
/ Active
/ Church buildings-Czech Republic-Prague-History-20th century
/ Czechoslovakia-History-20th century
/ Eastern
/ Europe
/ General history of Europe Eastern Europe Soviet Union
/ HISTORY
/ History, Art History, and Archaeology
/ Prague
/ Prague (Czech Republic)-Religion
/ Prague (Czech Republic)-Religious life and customs
/ Pražský hrad (Prague, Czech Republic)
/ Pražský hrad (Prague, Czech Republic)
/ Religion
/ Sacred space-Czech Republic-Prague-History-20th century
/ SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion
/ Symbols
ISBN
9789633862360, 9633861578, 9789633861578, 9633862361, 9789633861585, 9633861586
