Traditions and prospects of remuneration of clergymen in Czechoslovakia in the period 1918–1950 and in the present Slovak Republic

Adriana  Švecová; Viktor Križan

Traditions and prospects of remuneration of clergymen in Czechoslovakia in the period 1918–1950 and in the present Slovak Republic

Data publikacji: 31.10.2017

Krakowskie Studia z Historii Państwa i Prawa, Tom 10 (2017), Tom 10, Zeszyt 2, s. 319 - 333

https://doi.org/10.4467/20844131KS.17.015.7560

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Traditions and prospects of remuneration of clergymen in Czechoslovakia in the period 1918–1950 and in the present Slovak Republic

Abstrakt

Historical and legal examination of financial provision for the clergy from traditional and state-recognized churches and religious societies in Slovakia brings with it not only the historical dimension of its descriptive and analytical significance, but provides a specific social-security law and labour law basis for the current material status of the clergy, which is in many cases at an undignified and socially-deprived level due to current legislation. Substantive law, even after 28 years since the political regime change in November 1989, comes from the time of real socialism, and despite a number of cosmetic changes the several times amended Act from 1949 (!) has not escaped the framework of state supervision and paternalism, as well as social levelling of Churches, at least in the case of clerical remuneration. The aim of this study was to use short, recapitulating sketches to focus historical-legal attention on the employment basis of remuneration regulation for the clergy (i.e. its basis in the form of state support called “congruence”) in different constitutional phases of the Czechoslovak Republic in two diametrically-opposed political regimes: firstly the democratic 1st Czechoslovak Republic and then the post-war People’s Czechoslovak Republic, led and controlled by the Communists after their take-over in 1948. In conclusion, we analyse the current legal regulation of clerical remuneration in the Slovak Republic as one of the legal successors of the defunct Czechoslovak Federal Republic, and we describe the current major problems that we see as rooted in past legislation.

Słowa kluczowe

financing of churches, remuneration of clergy, cleric (priest), congruence, churches and religious societies, the minimum wage, the Czechoslovak Republic, Slovak Republic

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Legal acts and printed sources

Act no. 122/1926 Collection of laws and orders on the adjustment of salaries of the clergy of churches and religious communities recognized or admitted by the State.

Act no. 124/1948 Coll. on the nationalization of some inn holder and taproom businesses and accommodation facilities.

Act no. 125/1948 Coll. on the nationalization of natural resources and medicinal spas and integration and management confiscated spa property.

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Act no. 217/1949 Coll. on state supervision over the churches.

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Act no. 46/1948 Coll. on the so-called new land reform.

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