World Religions Paradigm, legal system and education. The case of the Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13617672.2018.1433920" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13617672.2018.1433920</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13617672.2018.1433920" target="_blank" >10.1080/13617672.2018.1433920</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

World Religions Paradigm, legal system and education. The case of the Czech Republic

Original language description

The article deals with the concept of religion in the laws which regulate access of religious organisations to public education in the Czech Republic. The analysis of the laws reveals that the World Religions Paradigm (WRP) is applied here. Religious organisations representing ‘important world religions’ have a privileged position in accessing public education. Mostly Christianity-based churches have access to public education through the legal notion of ‘special rights’ granted by the state. The article provides a concise review of the key points of criticism of the WRP. The paradigm is criticised as ethnocentric, inherently theological, developed with colonialism, undefinable in practice, highly abstract, essentialist and ahistorical. Its historical development is related to the process of reification as defined by W.C. Smith. The concluding part relates the criticism of the WRP to the concept of religion in the laws regulating the access of religious organisations to public education in the Czech Republic. The application of the WRP leads to restrictions of religious pluralism.

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

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Journal of Beliefs &amp; Values-Studies in Religion &amp; Education

ISSN

1361-7672

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

39

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

344-357

UT code for WoS article

000440048800009

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85045057582