The Battle for the Church of St. Francis in a town in the Czech Republic between “Hipster-Culture” and “Tradition”: Discourses in Religiosity, Youth, and Intra-Parish Civic Engagement – A Case Study

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Result on the web

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Battle for the Church of St. Francis in a town in the Czech Republic between “Hipster-Culture” and “Tradition”: Discourses in Religiosity, Youth, and Intra-Parish Civic Engagement – A Case Study

Original language description

The relationship between civic engagement and religiosity is an already relatively researched and described phenomenon. However, insufficient attention is paid to the phenomenon of civic engagement within the parish, and moreover in the context of various discourses of religiosity In the article, we present an answer to the question: How do various discourses and their dominant positions influence Intra-Parish Civic Engagement of Youths? To formulate the answer, we use elements of constructivist grounded theory. Based on the analysis of 14interviews and 36 documents, we describe the course of the process of dominance of traditional and hipster-culture discourse, which played varying roles in the involvement of young people in intra-parish civic engagement (IPCE) in the situation of long-term planning of the construction of a new church in a selected parish from the Czech Republic. The results of theanalysis show that the hierarchical structure of the parish enabled the dominance of hipster-culture discourse, emphasizing the horizontality of relationships, which entailed a moresignificant involvement of youth in the IPCE process. However, the increasing emphasis on horizontality began to be perceived as a threat to verticality. With regard to the financial limitsof the construction, and in the context of the hierarchical structure of the parish, the priests decided to emphasize verticality, the dominance of traditional discourse, and the diminution ofIPCE by the youths.

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

50401 - Sociology

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

ISSN

2693-2229

e-ISSN

2693-2229

Volume of the periodical

45

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

22

Pages from-to

70-91

UT code for WoS article

001505232700003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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