Getting Up from the Knees. Religious Services in Prague in the 1960s II.

Abstract

Academic edition of an exceptional source depicting (records from) observations of Prague Christian churches’ services in the mid-1960s, supplemented with a contextualizing introduction and historico-religious footnotes by the editor. The specificity of the material is that the original source takes the form of (commented) participatory observation, it is very open and at the same time it contains material from (almost) all existing churches and religious societies, respectively individual parishes, congregations and places of worship in the city of Prague. Due to its length is the edition divided into several parts; in this second part it includes communities and services of the Protestant Church of the Czech Brethren (Českobratrská církev evangelická) and the Czechoslovak (Hussite) Church (Církev československá, todays Církev československá husitská).

Keywords: Czechoslovakia – religion; modern religion; religion under communism; Prague; anthropology of religion; worship; Protestant Church of the Czech Brethren; Czechoslovak (Hussite) Church

Zora Procházková - Jan David

Zdeněk Nešpor (ed.)

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