Handbook of Religion and Church History in Slovakia in the 20th Century

宗教团体在20世纪对斯洛伐克的历史产生了重大影响。一个突出的例子是天主教徒和新教徒在斯洛伐克民族运动中发挥的突出作用，或教会在1989/1990年期间抵抗国家社会主义和政治变革中的作用。然而，直到今天，还没有一本全面的卷来概述20世纪斯洛伐克教会和宗教社区的发展。计划中的项目旨在通过提供对斯洛伐克历史上宗教和教会的有充分依据的跨时代和跨教派的观点来缩小这一差距。这一努力的核心是两个关键方面。一方面，该项目特别关注斯洛伐克人口的多族裔性质，这些人往往与人们的宗教信仰不匹配，但这对该国的历史发展具有特殊的意义。特别注意讲德语、匈牙利语和鲁塞语的少数民族。另一方面，它关注该国20世纪独裁统治下的宗教团体的活动。其目的是研究1939年至1945年天主教牧师Jozef Tiso领导的法西斯政权下教会的运作，以及1948至1989年宗教社区与国家社会主义之间的对抗。在这一背景下，宗教团体的活动受到国家镇压的严格限制，但也是能够与这一制度达成妥协，有时还积极合作的行为者。这一项目的中心方针是将宗教描述为历史发展的一个重要因素，并通过从共同历史的角度讨论这一专题，审查共同和不同宗教团体的发展，以及研究不同教派之间的关系。这种做法既涉及宗教与政治和社会关系的基本倾向，也涉及宗教实践中的基本倾向。这个项目的主要目标之一是展示斯洛伐克复杂且往往政治化的宗教历史书写，但同时通过概述文章和严格的编辑过程将其联系起来，使其更具事实基础。该出版物将分两个阶段出版--印刷和在线--以德文和斯洛伐克文出版。在读者群方面，它将针对学术界，提供对斯洛伐克教会和宗教史的新见解。同时，它还将作为关于宗教间紧张、合作和协商专题的参考著作，面向教育工作者和更广泛的公众。

Religious communities have significantly influenced the history of Slovakia during the 20th century. An outstanding example is the prominent part that both Catholics and Protestants played in the Slovak national movement or the role of the churches in the resistance against state socialism and in the political change during the 1989/1990 period. Until today, however, no comprehensive volume is available to give an overview of developments within the churches and religious communities in Slovakia in the 20th century. The planned project aims to close this gap by providing a well-founded cross-epochal and cross-denominational over-view of religion and churches in the history of Slovakia.Two key aspects are at the center of this effort. On the one hand, the project pays special attention to the multiethnic nature of Slovakia’s population which often did not match the peo-ple’s religious affiliations, but which nevertheless was of exceptional significance for the his-torical development of the country. Special regard is paid to the German, Hungarian, and Ruthene-speaking minorities. On the other hand, it focuses on the activities of religious com-munities under the country’s 20th-century dictatorships. The aim is to examine both the churches’ functioning under the fascist regime headed by the Catholic priest Jozef Tiso from 1939 to 1945, and the confrontation between religious communities and state socialism from 1948 to 1989. The religious communities appear in this context as institutions that suffered severe restrictions of their activities through state repression, but also as actors capable of coming to terms, and at times actively collaborating, with the regime.The central approach of this project is to describe religion as an important factor of historical development and – by discussing the topic in terms of a shared history – to examine devel-opments of the religious communities both shared and divergent, as well as to study relations between denominations. This approach concerns both the basic tendencies in the relationship of religion with politics and society on the one hand, and in religious practice on the other. It is one of the primary goals of this project to represent the complicated and often politicized reli-gion history writing in Slovakia, but at the same time to contextualize it and make it more fact-based by means of overview articles and a rigorous editing process.The planned handbook is being developed together with an international interdisciplinary team of authors. The publication will appear in a two-stage process – in print and online – in both German and Slovak. In terms of readership it will be aimed at the academic community, providing new insights into church and religion history of Slovakia. At the same time, it will also serve as a reference work on the topic of interreligious tension, cooperation and confron-tation, aimed at educators and at the broader public.