“久来寺无声”——20 世纪50 年代斯洛伐克游记 对中国宗教的反映.

The paper discusses the depiction of Chinese religions in a number of travelogues written by Czech and Slovak authors (usually writers and journalists who had no academic background in either Chinese or religious studies) who visited the People's Republic of China as official guests of the Beijing government during the 1950s (e. g. V. Mináč, A. Hoffmeiser, V. Ferko, L. Mňačko, P. Poucha, R. Moric, M. Pujmanová). The description of monasteries and temples in these writings is usually marginal, but it reflects various stereotyped images of the Marxist critical approaches towards religion (religion as a relic of the past, religion as a product of an oppressive class society, etc.). The author argues that the praiseful assessment of the anti-religious campaign of the communist Chinese government in the 1950s in these travelogues also served as a tool which should have persuaded the Czechoslovak readership, that the anti-religious measures unleashed in socialist Czechoslovakia in 1950 were correct and represented a component in a large and rightful historical process enacted in all socialist countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]