Smrt jako konec, nebo začátek? O (ne)víře v posmrtný život












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            * Nešporová Olga
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            Death as an End or as a Beginning? On (Not) Believing in the Afterlife


            Abstrakt
            The article overviews the spreading of faith in the afterlife in contemporary Czech societ

            data from the international ISSP research focused on religion (1998 and 2008), complemente
            research results on the character of ideas of the afterlife. In the European context, fait
            afterlife is not so common in the Czech Republic; more than half of the Czech population t

            as the definitive end of life. This is not caused only by the small amount of believers, b
            great divergence from believing in the afterlife in the last decade (mostly in younger age

            Contemporary notions of the afterlife are also very vague, and besides the abstractly conc
            Heaven and Hell, new conceptions have arisen, of which the most widespread is the belief i
            of souls. The article describes specific ideas of middle-aged Czechs (30–50 years old), no

            believers, but practicing Roman Catholics, as well.

            Klíčová slova

            Death; afterlife; religion; Czech society; sociology of religion

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