Secularizing Sunday and Substituting the Weekend
Secularizing Sunday and Substituting the Weekend

Summary/Abstract: In this article we reflect on what has become with a Sunday in the U.S., with particular emphasis on the legal, economic, cultural, and even religious factors that contributed to the secularization of Sunday. The first part of the article considers the legal situation of the Sunday in America. It is noted here that the origins of America were two themes: religious, and economic and these two factors affect the social policy on Sunday. The increase of aggressive secular interpretation of „religious freedom” coincided with the economic pressures causing the disappearance of the law on the prohibition of Sunday trading and the tendency to regard Sunday as „every other day” . The second part of the article deals with the growing importance of the weekend. Initially, in order to reduce the economic pressure espoused free time, then, however, the deterioration of the situation of the workers in America even lead to longer working hours, flipped duty of „holiday” for the weekend. The relentless pressures of time then moved on Sunday as a religious holiday. The author states that society should restore the special protected status of Sunday as a day of rest and worship, because it is not right to bring human beings only to consumers.

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