Invented religions and the conceptualization of religion in a highly secular society: The Jedi religion and the Church of Beer in the Czech context
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15210%2F20%3A73607578" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15210/20:73607578 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1367549420919876" target="_blank" >https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1367549420919876</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367549420919876" target="_blank" >10.1177/1367549420919876</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Invented religions and the conceptualization of religion in a highly secular society: The Jedi religion and the Church of Beer in the Czech context
Original language description
This study illustrates the need to develop efforts that define scientific terms, namely, 'religion'. Despite the fact that such efforts may seem to be practically unattainable, current phenomena testify to the need to continually improve standardized scholarly terminology (such as Invented Religion, Parody Religion). Using specific material (of new religious phenomena in the Czech Republic, specifically the Jedi religion and the Church of Beer), the study identifies several key ambiguities stemming from the cultural and social context in which both contemporary new religions and academic study of religions coexist. The study concludes that in a highly secular society, where the continuity of religious memory is disrupted (as in the Czech Republic), the academic study of religions plays an important role, functioning as an authority for the decision-making of state institutions.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - 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
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA18-11345S" target="_blank" >GA18-11345S: Atheism, Freethought and Secularization in Central and Eastern European Countries in the 20th and 21st Centuries</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2020
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 Studies
ISSN
1367-5494
e-ISSN
1460-3551
Volume of the periodical
24 (2021)
Issue of the periodical within the volume
5
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
20
Pages from-to
1160-1179
UT code for WoS article
000535023500001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85085366458