About
38
Publications
23,750
Reads
How we measure 'reads'
A 'read' is counted each time someone views a publication summary (such as the title, abstract, and list of authors), clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the full-text. Learn more
205
Citations
Publications
Publications (38)
The study tries to evaluate the development of the Hare Krishna Movement ( ISKCON ) in the Czech Republic. It points out that after a period of great openness and the emergence of non-traditional religious groups after the Velvet Revolution in 1989, the spread of this movement gradually stagnated. After a period of “anti-cult” attacks, the movement...
The present study focuses on the ongoing shift in the meaning and importance of traditional Kalinga tattoos that is happening in Buscalan village in the Philippines. The starting point for the analysis is the conception of disintegration of “the aura”, as defined by Walter Benjamin, resulting from their disembedding from time and space that is caus...
The paper explains the current dominance of unbelievers in Czech society as a consequence of the replication of the narrative template about religion, which is part of the national collective memory. This narrative template manifests itself in certain events provided by the interpretative framework. The aim of the study is to identify the Czech rel...
The study analyzes the place of religion in the national collective memory and the changes that have taken place in the field of religion in connection with the modernization and emergence of modern nation-states in India and Papua New Guinea (PNG). In the case of PNG, we look at the place of Christianization in the process of modernization, while...
This study illustrates the need to develop efforts that define scientific terms, namely, ‘religion’. Despite the fact that such efforts may seem to be practically unattainable, current phenomena testify to the need to continually improve standardized scholarly terminology (such as Invented Religion, Parody Religion). Using specific material (of new...
This study analyzes and interprets East Sepik storyboards, which the authors regard as a form of cultural continuity and instrument of cultural memory in the post-colonial period. The study draws on field research conducted by the authors in the village of Kambot in East Sepik. The authors divide the storyboards into two groups based on content. Th...
This publication has several modest goals: We shall describe how we conceptualised religious memory for the purposes of qualitative and quantitative survey research, and we shall explain how we operationalised religious communicative and cultural memory and why we believe that the questionnaire we designed and present here can also be applied in ot...
The purpose of this text is to attempt to test the connection between people’s religiosity and their relationship to history, and also to provide some new knowledge about this relationship in the Czech Republic. According to theories, it is assumed that religion and history are somehow connected. This is why we are trying to obtain knowledge about...
The year 1989 represented a decisive turn for the countries of Central Europe. With the breakdown of Communist regime a society based on market economy, political liberalism, and freedom of belief was (re)established. In the Czech environment, harsh atheism, anti-religious propaganda, persecution of believers, and dissolution of religious life were...
The study identifies the notion of collective memory and, particularly, its crucial elements that might be used as helpful research tools. It is based on the analysis of a memory thematizing socio-cultural context and of the existing sociological theories. It also draws on the findings of memory and cultural studies and psychology. The study identi...
The report focuses on one of the most influential theories that is discussed in contemporary academic studies of religion and sociology of religion. Whilst in European sociology the theory of secularization dominates, in America there is an influence of Rational Choice Theory particularly represented by Rodney Stark, William Bainbridge, Roger Finke...
Lately, the Study of Religions as an academic field has become highly attractive for many students. Globalization, among other impacts it has on society, certainly implements principles of multicultural education and religious tolerance into the frames of educational systems. Nevertheless, wide definition of these principles must be given concrete...
The objective of this paper consists in describing and analyzing the position of organized, institutionalized religions in the Czech Republic. It focuses on the role of organized religion in the public sphere of the Czech society, and it pays particular attention to the role of the Roman Catholic Church. The principal aim of this paper consists in...
This article analyzes the Czech followers of Reverend Moon using the viewpoint of rational choice theory. It focuses not only on this group as a specific religious organization with the characteristics of a sect, but also on how the institutional environment and its changes before and after 1989 affected this group's character, including its surviv...
This article attempts to summarize some of the experiences and methodological insights gained from research on non-traditional religious groups that the author has conducted over the last twenty years, primarily in Czech society. The starting point for these studies is respect for the principle that it is not possible to approach the study of relig...
Text je rozvržen do tří částí. První se věnuje způsobům, jakými sociologie (resp. sociologie náboženství) vytvářela teorii náboženství a jaké jsou možné strategie vytváření sociologické teorie náboženství. V této části jsou také zmíněny některé významné principy, které jsou nutné pro každou sociologickou teorii náboženství dnes (např. mezikulturní...
The study is divided into four parts. The first part deals with ways in which sociology (sociology of religion) created a theory of religion, i.e., asks what is the possible strategy of creation sociological theory of religion. This section also contains some important principles that are required for each contemporary sociological theory of religi...
Religions of India in the understanding of Max Weber and contemporary postcolonial criticism. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate historically conditioned context of Weber's analysis of "religion of India". Weber and his work is part of orientalistic discourse - Weber assumes then Western image of India, and reproduces and incorporates this ima...
It elaborates necessary conditions of acculturation of "foreign" traditions in modern West, and on the case of further development of Yoga and the Hare Krishna Movements shows particular problems these movements had to face in the situation of political/social transformation. It represents development of these movements as a process determined by t...
In the submitted essays we concentrated on three basic issue areas. Firstly, it was the reconstitution of the basic elements of the doctrine and the practice of the western form of Krishna bhakti. Secondly, there were questions dealing with the foundation and the activities of ISKCON. We also provided the reconstruction of history of ISKCON in the...
Vyd. 1. Určeno studentům sociologie, religionostiky, dalších oborů sociálních věd a zájemcům o tato témata
1. vyd. Část. přeloženo z angličtiny, francouzštiny a němčiny Vydala Masarykova univerzita v Brně péčí Ústavu religionistiky FF MU
Název z obálky Informativní materiál pro učitele. Pro potřeby základního a středního školství
