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Spirituální podnikání v České republice: soukromý a korporativní sektor

The author analyses spiritual economy in a medium sized Czech town of Čecká Lípa, while he compares businesses and services of private and corporative organizations.…

Topics: Economy, Religion and religiosity

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Encyklopedie moderních evangelických (a starokatolických) kostelů Čech, Moravy a českého Slezska

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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‘Tvrzení o vymírání náboženství jest terminologický sebeklam.‘ Příspěvek k české sociologii náboženství v podání Emanuela Chalupného

This article describes the life and work of an important Czech sociologist of the interwar period, Emanuel Chalupný (1879–1958). Even from a mere outline of his life one clearly sees that he was a highly controversial, tenacious, even disagreeable figure, who had no intention of giving in to anyone or anything, something that earned him many enemies. His own extraordinarily numerous works of sociology are today outmoded, yet they contain a number of original ideas, which contemporaneous critics often overlo…

Topics: History of Sociology, Religion and religiosity

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Jsou Češi skutečně nevěřící? "Ateistický" národ v sekularizované Evropě a v náboženském světě

Jsou Češi skutečně nevěřící? "Ateistický" národ v sekularizované Evropě a v náboženském světě

The chapter outlines position of religion (both churchly organized, and unchurched) in contemporary Czech society and compares the situation with other European countries.…

Topics: Religion and religiosity

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Český spirituální trh jako předmět religionistického výzkumu

The author employs recent empirical surveys to highlight that spirituality has become part of Czech mainstream culture, especially in the form of the reading of spiritual books, fortune telling and certain occult practices, while spiritual/holistic healing continues to grow in popularity. …

Topics: Religion and religiosity

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Století evangelických časopisů 1849–1948. Časopisy v dějinách „lidových“ protestantských církví v Čechách a na Moravě

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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L’amnésie de la remémoration dans la société tchèque

The paper provides information on the state of religion in contemporary Czech Republic, including the extraordinary high rates of declared atheism, which essence the author describes in terms of anticlericalism and widespread privatized religious/spiritual forms. In the Czech case, there is emphasized that religious “amnesia” did not emerged as a result of reduction of interest in religion and “religious illiteracy” in the late modernity, but as an expression of hostility towards too many mutually inco…

Topics: Religion and religiosity

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Náboženství v 19. století. Nejcírkevnější století, nebo období zrodu českého ateismu?

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Rodina / domácnost jako náboženská skupina v procesu transformace

In the article, the author (1.) summarises the basic theoretical and historical resources for examining the mutual bonds between religion and the family life, and (2.) presents their transformation in the Czech Republic after 1989 through an analysis of the sociological research projects ISSP 1998 and ISSP 2008.…

Topics: Religion and religiosity, Family, Transformation

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Příliš slábi ve víře. Česká ne/religiozita v evropském kontextu

Příliš slábi ve víře. Česká ne/religiozita v evropském kontextu

Using historical and sociological methods, the autor analyzes situation of religion in modern Czech society and compares it with religious processes occuring in other European countries.…

Topics: Religion and religiosity

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Evangelické kalendáře v ‚dlouhém‘ 19. století

The almanacs represented an important source and constituent part ofthe popular culture in the „long“ nineteenth century. The text focuses on the bynow slightly studied almanacs of Czech Protestants and, as a supplement, alsocontains its register. First Protestant calendars were published after the authorizationof Protestant denominations at the end of the eighteenth century, but due tothe economic weakness of these minorities soon ceased to exist. The next waveof their publishing was connected with libera…

Topics: Religion and religiosity

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Variety české religiozity v „dlouhém“ 19. století (1780-1918)

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Attitudes towards Religion(s) in a ‘Non-believing’ Czech Republic

The author examines both "old" and "new" church religiom, "alternative" spiritual outlets, and the religious attitudes of the general population in the Czech Republic presenting sociological surwey data and etnographical research.…

Topics: Religion and religiosity

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Lid časopisů. Časopisy českých evangelíků jako zdroj jejich sociokulturního významu

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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The Household as a Religious Group

The Household as a Religious Group

The study aims to analytically interlink the optics of individuals and households and focus on their demographic and socio-economic behaviour since 1989 in the Czech Republic, and compare these observations with other EU countries, primarily those of Central Eastern Europe (CEE). The fields covered are family formation and life trajectories, earnings disparities and income inequality, the situation of self-employed and family businesses, and religion affiliation of individuals and households.…

Topics: Wages and Incomes, Religion and religiosity, Family

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Budování evangelických sborů ve východních Čechách v „dlouhém“ 19. století (1781-1918)

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Přínos sociologie náboženství církevnímu a náboženskému dějepisectví

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Czech Sociology of Religion under the Communist Regime 1948-1989

Czech Sociology of Religion under the Communist Regime 1948-1989

The paper analyses development of Czech sociology of religion in the period of communist rule.…

Topics: History of Sociology, Religion and religiosity

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Dvě hypotézy o původu nekatolíků z řad banátských a bulharských Čechů

Discussion paper on recent investigation of Michal Pavlásek, who interprets the socio-economic and religious origins of (part of) the Czech settlement in Banat and Bulharia. …

Topics: Religion and religiosity

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Sociolog(ie) mezi kolárkem, hákovým křížem a rudou hvězdou: Jaroslav Šíma v dějinách české sociologie

The article analyses the life story and works of a significant Czech sociologist, Jaroslav Šíma (1914–1955), as a case study in the context of the evolution of Czech sociology in the 20th century and relations between sociology and political power. …

Topics: History of Sociology

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Edice českých sociologických časopisů

Edice českých sociologických časopisů

The e-book (CD-ROM) is a critical edition of sources. It presents a full-text edition of influential Czech sociological journals from the past (Parlament, Sociální problémy, Sociologická revue, and Sociologický obzor), as well as an introductory study by Zdeněk R. Nešpor of the full range of sociological and related journals published in the history of Czech sociology.…

Topics: History of Sociology

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Mizení náboženství z veřejného prostoru. Kostely, kaple, modlitebny a fary Německé evangelické církve

This study analyses the liquidation process of the German Protestant Church in Bohemia, Moravia and in Silesia, the fourth largest Czech church, in the era after World War II. The analysis examines the fates of the religious buildings of the church. Research was based on newly discovered archive materials of the Protestant provenience, which also give us a picture of post-war religiousness in the newly re-settled borderlands, as well as on the material gathered in the publication Encyclopaedia of Modern Protes…

Topics: Value Orientations, Religion and religiosity

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Jan Šrámek a česká katolická sociologie

Jan Šrámek a česká katolická sociologie

The chapter analyses early sociological work of Czech politician Jan Šrámek in a context of Roman Catholic Christian sociology of his time.…

Topics: History of Sociology

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Building of Crematoria in the Czech Republic. Social and Ideological Issue

The article histrorically and sociologically analyses several waves of crematiria building in the Czech lands dutiny the 20th century.…

Topics: Religion and religiosity

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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