Perception of Islam and Muslims in the Czech Society: The Criticism of Islam in the Public Sphere in Two Examples
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Perception of Islam and Muslims in the Czech Society: The Criticism of Islam in the Public Sphere in Two Examples
Original language description
Miloš Zeman’s comments on Islam as well as the criticism of Islam on the page of IVCRN and the analysis of the content and the context of criticizing Islam and Muslims reveal that the perception of Islam and Muslims is connected to the process of defining and understanding Czech national, cultural and social identity. This identity is defined as the opposite of Islamic socio-cultural features which are depicted rather negatively. In this stereotypical and homogenizing perspective Islam and Muslims represent “anti-civilization” (as expressed by Miloš Zeman). From this perspective, the Huntingtonian “culture clash” is inevitable. The connection of criticism of Islam and Muslims to the understanding of Czech socio-cultural identity can be seen as a key to the political potential of this criticism: we will probably see more examples of this criticism in the near future in connection with political competition in the public sphere of the Czech society.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
AA - Philosophy and religion
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/VG20132015113" target="_blank" >VG20132015113: Islam in the Czech Republic: The establishment of Muslims in the public space</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2016
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Sociology of Religion. Selected Aspects from Central European Region.
ISBN
978-83-64804-46-5
Number of pages of the result
9
Pages from-to
80-88
Number of pages of the book
132
Publisher name
University of Rzeszów, Poland
Place of publication
Rzeszów
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