Religious, Socio-cultural and Political Worldviews of Contemporary Pagans in the Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/POM/article/view/33834" target="_blank" >https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/POM/article/view/33834</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/pome.33834" target="_blank" >10.1558/pome.33834</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Religious, Socio-cultural and Political Worldviews of Contemporary Pagans in the Czech Republic

Original language description

This article presents the results of a research inspired by Helen Berger’s Pagan Census, conducted among Czech Pagans. It explores the worldviews of Czech Pagans from different Pagan groups regarding the questions of spirituality (e.g. the beliefs about afterlife, reincarnation or magic), society and culture (e.g. LGBTQ+ rights, drugs or the status of women in society) and politics (e.g. regarding the market regulation, social welfare, as well as specific political party preferences). It focuses on the differences, as well as on the commonalities among various Pagan groups, as the Pagan movement is highly diversified and sprouts from several different sources: some groups have emerged from naturalizing and romanticizing tendencies and emphasize the sacredness of nature, worship, and respect for all of its creatures; while some groups have emerged from rather nationalistic tendencies and focus on the worship of the gods and ancestors with a strong emphasis on ethnic background. The results show that the vast majority of Czech Pagans believe in some sort of afterlife and more than a half of them believe in reincarnation. The vast majority also believe in magic and nearly a half of them practise it. While there are little differences between various Pagan groups on the left-right economic scale, as they all seem to be mostly centrist or slightly left of center, adherents of reconstructionist or ethnic Pagan groups tend to hold more conservative positions on the socio-cultural scale than the adherents of revivalist or eclectic Pagan groups.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60304 - Religious studies

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Pomegranate: The International Journal Of Pagan Studies

ISSN

1528-0268

e-ISSN

1743-1735

Volume of the periodical

19

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

233-250

UT code for WoS article

000426997600005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85047019407