European reformation as a model for revolutions and crises of today’s Word. Round table, International Congress of Historical Sciences\n

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Doležalová, Eva
European reformation as a model for revolutions and crises of today’s Word. Round table, International Congress of Historical Sciences
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[Jinan, 26.08.2015-26.08.2015, (K-WRD 20/15)]
Institucionální podpora: RVO:67985963
Klíčová slova: revolutions * social crises * reformation
Kód oboru RIV: AB - Dějiny

European Reformation (early English and Bohemian reformations, Hussite Wars, Luther’s reformation, German Peasant’ War, Calvin’s and Catholic reformation and the Thirty Years War) can be regarded as a model, of which we find very loose but noticeable replications in today’s World, starting from the First and Second World War, Russian and Chinese revolution and the breakdown of colonial and similar empires, up to the Islamic revival and Arab Spring 2011. The societies concerned rebuild their relations to religion (or an ideology). Education, widening of horizons and other factors give rise to strong social groups that seek more opportunities for self-actualisation. We see the oncoming of generations of “young angry men” and women. They are radical but not entirely destructive. There exists a platform (in the Reformation it was Church, universities and typography), on which they can convey their criticism to the others and mobilise broad layers. They are soon replaced by power and economic elites. The following development depends on the quality of these elites. Acrid questions are, for example, the role of the international context, again the churches and religions, but also the secular world organisations, geo-political and ideological blocks and the “international community”. Under which conditions can a revolution of this type end in a “glorious” compromise ? Can a revolution be prevented or made in an enlightened, non-violent way ? The objective of the round table is to explore these processes from the point of view of possible parallels between the European reformation and the present world and to derive from it new ideas that would help us to understand and overcome today’s crises, without a priori ascribing positive or negative algebraic signs. The 600-year anniversary of the death on stake of the Czech reformer Jan Hus (1415) may become a symptomatic initial of this effort.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0265274