Persecution of Churches in the Communist Countries in Central and Eastern Europe
Nation's Memory Institute (Slovakia); The Institute of National Remembrance (Poland); The Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes (Czech Republic); The Institute for the History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution (Hungary) 30.09.2009-02.10.2009, Bratislava
Deadline: 15.06.2009
The international scientific conference will be held to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the passing of the so-called Church Acts in Czechoslovakia.
The Conference should clarify church participation in the anti-totalitarian resistance and allow professional exchanges between institutions involved. It will present research results of communist anti-church persecutions and suppression of religious freedoms in former Soviet bloc countries, highlighting both common and particular features of antireligious politics.
Legislation regulating relations between churches and state Analysis and recapitulation and communist legislation (incl. during normalization), historical and ideological background for adoption of anti-church norms, resolutions of the communist party, laws adopted by legislative bodies, policies adopted by state departments and secret police administration.