Selected Attitudes of Muslims Toward Life in the Czech Republic in the Context of Their Faith

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.24040/politickevedy.2018.21.2.116-137" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.24040/politickevedy.2018.21.2.116-137</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.24040/politickevedy.2018.21.2.116-137" target="_blank" >10.24040/politickevedy.2018.21.2.116-137</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Selected Attitudes of Muslims Toward Life in the Czech Republic in the Context of Their Faith

Original language description

In the past several years, we could witness a massive mass and social media coverage of Muslims and their migration to Europe. This particular group is an object of stereotypical views and intensive emotional reactions. Despite that, Muslims living in Czech Republic are a relatively unknown and so far unexplored cultural group. Therefore, our study focused on selected faith-related attitudes toward Czech society investigated on a sample of Muslim immigrants living in Czech Republic for minimum of one year. We used a shortened and adjusted version of questionnaire previously used in WZB study (WZV, 2008) in three language mutations - Arabic, Czech, and English. The recruitment of participants was conducted via social networks; in total 143 responses were gathered. The data analysis is based primarily on descriptive statistics. The results show that there is a great variability in the strength of both the Muslim identity of the respondents and their religions believes. Their attitudes toward various topics related to Islam such as wearing headscarfs and other gender-related issues, teaching Islam in schools, or building Mosques also highly vary within the sample. Access to housing is perceived as the main source of discrimintation. Large-scale or longitudinal assessments of Muslim minority are needed to deepen our understanding of the attitudes of the Muslim minority in Czech Republic. We can assume that this topic will be investigated further in other Central European countries.

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

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

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

Politické vedy

ISSN

1335-2741

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

21

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

22

Pages from-to

116-137

UT code for WoS article

000438652800006

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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