Delegations of science academies from V4 countries - Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary - met on 23rd-24th April 2007 in Smolenice Castle near Bratislava. They discussed mutual cooperation and also relationship to European Science Foundation and European Research Council (see second cover) and Jan Palouš.
Nešporova syntetická monografie podle recenzenta na základě pečlivého studia primárních, sekundárních i archivních dokumentů a v širokém kontextu rekonstruuje vývoj české sociologie náboženství od poloviny 19. století. Autorovy výklady jsou vyvážené a mnohdy objevné, jen místy přetížené sice potřebnými, avšak příliš rozsáhlými kontextovými pasážemi. Poněkud matoucí je pak titul knihy, neboť navozuje dojem, že kniha sleduje postoje českých intelektuálů k náboženství. and This is a review of a synthetic monograph, whose title translates as ‘The (Non-) Religious Hopes of the Intellectuals: The Development of Czech Sociology of Religion in an International and Interdisciplinary Context’. According to the reviewer, this work provides an account of the development of Czech sociology of religion from the nineteenth century onwards. It is based on meticulous research using primary and secondary sources in the broader context. The author’s interpretations, says the reviewer, are well balanced and often original, but in a few places they are burdened with excessively long, albeit necessary, contextual passages. Moreover, the title of the book is somewhat misleading, for it gives the impression that the work is about Czech intellectuals’ attitudes to religion.