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Castle and Cathedral: Longing for the Sacred in a Skeptical Age

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Castle and Cathedral: Longing for the Sacred in a Skeptical Age - Berglund, Bruce R
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Prague in the early twentieth century was the city of cubists, surrealists, and the Good Soldier vejk. This book takes a new approach to interwar Prague by identifying religion as an integral part of the citys cultural history. As Prague emerged as a modern city and the Czech nation gained independence, Catholics, Protestants, and those who imagined a non-sectarian religion debated questions of faith and morality. Contrary to the conventional view of modern Czech elites as atheistic, Berglund shows how they were deeply ...

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Castle and Cathedral: Longing for the Sacred in a Skeptical Age 2017, Central European University Press, Budapest

ISBN-13: 9789637326431

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Castle and Cathedral: Longing for the Sacred in a Skeptical Age 2017, Central European University Press, Budapest

ISBN-13: 9789633861578

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