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Introduction From the institutional
The Czech Republic and Czech perspective, there are right now
society are usually considered about 38 registered churches
one of the most atheistic (most them Christian) by the
countries in Europe due to state plus many unregistered
targeted atheization of society religious communities.
programmed and performed by Their size and power are
a communist party during the very different from each other.
communist rule in The biggest and strongest one
Czechoslovakia. is the Roman-Catholic church
The popularity of formal (with a dominant position
religion and churches in Czech among believers).
society has been declining even Other world religions than
after the so-called Velvet Christianity are for the Czech
revolution in 1989 until now Republic highly marginal.
and according to last research Traditionally Judaism is
in 2011, only 20% of Czech present at Czech territory
th
consider themselves as (since 10 Century) and in
believers; But it can’t be easily recent 30 years also Islam has
explained by demographic become more and more
development or people’s relevant.
antipathy toward religion or the Compared to the Western
church. The point is, there’s Europe the Muslim minority in
been a huge increase in a the Czech Republic is
number of people refusing to relatively small constituting
answer this optional question community smaller than 0.1%
about their religious orientation of the Czech population.
and beliefs in the population According to Czech
census. Statistical Office, more than
Almost 45% of respondents 3000 people declared
omit to provide any themselves as Muslims; but the
information about their sociologic research by Daniel
religious feelings and church Topinka (2016) states there are
affiliation. about 22000 Muslims with