Postacie neutralności światopoglądowej
Faces of standpoint neutrality

Summary/Abstract: In the current democratic countries the norm is to respect religious freedom and main rights according to the European Convention of Human Rights. Nevertheless, the situation of the different religious communities is different in the individual countries and depends on the following factors: historical conditions and experiences, political conditions, the religious situation and so on. After the Second World War, as a result of the tragic experiences with totalitarian systems, which sought to deprive the Church of its freedom and autonomy in order to impose it practically and ideologically, the transition from the liberal-bourgeois state to the social constitutional state was made on the basis of the common Personalism in which liberal, socialist, communist and Christian traditions have come together. Only in the basic laws of the European states does the registration about the cooperation between the state and the church appear, about their autonomy and competences. The spread of awareness of human rights has also contributed to the relaxation of church rights restrictions. But some states quite openly proclaim their secularism, which in practice means the removal of religious values from public life.

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