(Dis)believing Czechia. The experts from the Faculty of Science created the Atlas of ****************************************************************************************** * (Dis)believing Czechia. The experts from the Faculty of Science created the Atlas of Rel ****************************************************************************************** The researchers from the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development at the Fa Charles University, have just finished a unique project. Experts and general public can no at dozens of maps created by the team, and learn about the regional distribution of religi in Czechia as self-declared by the citizens after 1989. The large Atlas of Religions, writ Havlíček, Kamila Klingorová and Jakub Lysák, was published by Karolinum Publishing House r The Czech Republic is known as one of the countries with the lowest rate of believers. The atlas show how this situation is reflected in regional distribution. The authors used vast data, especially the information collected by the Czech Statistical Office during the regu The maps clearly indicate the strength of various religions in different regions, and they way this has changed during the last twenty years. Various Christian churches are frequent furthermore, the readers can learn about the regional strength of Buddhism, Hinduism, Isla other denominations. “We primarily focused on religions registered with the Ministry of Culture. We used the cu from 2011 as well as older information, as we wanted to see the whole development after 19 Havlíček. There’s also an oddity featured in the atlas – a pseudo-religion not registered with the m Jedi church. That’s because during the 2011 census, about 15,000 Czech citizens claimed to moral values of Jedi knights, of the Star Wars film series. Some of them did so just for f to express their objections; nevertheless, the sheer number of the “Jediists” outnumbered churches. The second part of the atlas is based on the field survey conducted in the past years. The selected ten model regions of the Czech Republic, and searched them for sacral objects in Thus, the map displays the location of Christian churches, crosses, synagogues, cemeteries monuments, but also Buddhist shrines or places related to alternative religiosity, such as The third part of the atlas not only reflects how the religion is shown in the landscape a environment but also in the everyday life of the society. Therefore, the maps describe the between religiosity and selected regional, socio-economic and demographic phenomena, such unemployment, crime rate or voter turnout, which is currently very topical. The atlas also of church restitutions. No such atlas has ever been published in the Czech Republic; the authors took their inspir countries. As their work offers a lot of information interesting for foreign readers, the the atlas are in both Czech and English. It may be interesting for experts, church represe government or students of numerous branches, but also for general public who want to learn religiosity in the country. The Atlas of Religions in Czechia is one of the results of the project Development, Transf Differentiation of Religion in Czechia in the Contect of Global and European Changes, supp Czech Science Foundation. Tomáš Havlíček currently leads a new project, focused on the pos Czechia; it should also reflect the hot topic of the migration crisis.