Křesťanství ve světle teorie ideologie: analýza fenoménu moderní doby
Christianity in the View of Theory of Ideology: An Analysis of the New Era’s Phenomenon

Summary/Abstract: Relation between religion and politics is not easy to understand. Social manifestation of religious activity could acquire many different forms. As being part of the European culture and tradition, Christianity has had great influence over the formation of western concept of politics. However, its historical and performative role is being reduced by political ideologies. Therefore it is necessary to specify conceptual assumptions of Christianity and ideology, in order to be able to perceive all the forms of modern religious activity. As a core item of our investigation it could be set down following hypothesis: Christianity represented by Catholicism embodies significant signs of ideology. For our purpose the surveyed case of Christianity is to be reduced to Catholicism because of its extensive intellectual reflection of relation among religion, state, economy and society.

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