The article focuses on the role of religion among working-class inhabitants of two industrial towns in the Czech lands, Ostrava and Kladno, during the first half of twentieth century. It analyses the enormous conversion movement, the position of new actors of religious life, and the religious behavior of workers. Looking at the history of the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century, the study understands religion as one of the constituent factors of society and its historic change. Traditional, new, and nonconformist religious actors appear as active agents in the private and public life of industrial towns. They mobilized workers, young people, and women, and they produced the major arena in which social, cultural, and church history come together.

本文着重探讨宗教在二十世纪上半叶捷克的俄斯特拉发和克拉德诺两个工业镇的工人阶级居民中的作用。它分析了巨大的conversion依运动，宗教生活新参与者的地位以及工人的宗教行为。纵观20世纪19世纪后期和20世纪上半叶的历史，该研究将宗教理解为社会及其历史变迁的构成因素之一。传统的，新的和不循规蹈矩的宗教演员在工业城镇的私人和公共生活中扮演着积极的角色。他们动员了工人，年轻人和妇女，创造了社会，文化和教会历史融合在一起的主要舞台。