Public justifications in differentiated symbolic spheres: Czech restitution of church property
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F24%3A10482826" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/24:10482826 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=bqNsjuLG-c" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=bqNsjuLG-c</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23254823.2024.2338132" target="_blank" >10.1080/23254823.2024.2338132</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Public justifications in differentiated symbolic spheres: Czech restitution of church property
Original language description
This article analyses the media statements by Czech church representatives on the restitution of church property. It traces the debate from the fall of communism in 1990 until 2019 via two centre-left and centre-right newspapers and the official periodicals of the two largest Czech churches, the Roman Catholic Church and the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren. At the theoretical and methodological level, I show the advantages of combining pragmatic and cultural sociology approaches, specifically Boltanski and Thévenot's modes of justification and Alexander and Smith's civil and non-civil spheres. This analytical approach allows for a better understanding of the dynamics of symbolic discursive dominance in public disputes. The churches' efforts to achieve public credibility have primarily relied on emphasising efficiency, expertise and transparency. Surprisingly, these attributes, typical of the Czech civil sphere, were also prevalent arguments within intra-church discourses.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50401 - Sociology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA19-08512S" target="_blank" >GA19-08512S: Dynamics of the churches´ moral economies in the Czech Republic and Slovakia in the context of restitutions and separation of church and state</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology
ISSN
2325-4815
e-ISSN
2325-4815
Volume of the periodical
11
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
23
Pages from-to
585-607
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85190558259