Summary
Tomaš Halik: Time of empty churches
Tomaš Halik is one of the most respected public intellectuals in the Czech Republic for the last three decades. Sociologist of religion, priest and pastor of the Academic Parish Community in Prague is a prolific author of essays on the position and role of Christianity in Europe, with special emphasis on post-communist European countries. Drawing on the experience of communism and the changes on the religious front in the period after the fall of the Iron Curtain, Halik in his works especially thematizes the relationship between faith and unbelief, Christianity and atheism, and the role of the church and religious movements in secular society. He also does this in his book The Time of Empty Churches: From Crisis to Deepening of Faith, which he published in 2021, prompted by the COVID pandemic and the ban on religious services.
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