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22. Nepraví mučedníci proticírkevního boje

Creator:
Nešpor, Zdeněk R.
Type:
article and TEXT
Language:
Czech
Description:
Recenzent vítá, že kniha otevírá důležité a badatelsky dosud téměř nereflektované téma poválečných dějin Československé církve (od roku 1971 s přídomkem „husitské“), která ze všech velkých církví nejvíce spolupracovala s komunistickým režimem. Dvanáct předložených medailonů však zastírá fakt, že jejich protagonisté byli většinou vězněni za jiné než náboženské aktivity, a svým apologetickým vyzněním nemůže změnit povědomí o problematickém fungování církve v minulosti. and The reviewer welcomes this publication for opening up an important, previously almost unresearched topic in the post-war history of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church (before 1971 simply the “Czechoslovak Church”). Of all the large Churches in Czechoslovakia, the Czechoslovak Church collaborated the most with the Communist regime. The twelve biographical profi les presented here, however, conceal the fact that the main actors were for the most part imprisoned for reasons other than religious activities, and with its apologist tone the volume cannot contribute to our knowledge of the problematic past of the Churches.
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23. Nové sakrální stavby v České republice

Creator:
Nešpor, Zdeněk R.
Type:
article and TEXT
Language:
Czech
Description:
Publikace jako vůbec první na odborné úrovni souborně dokumentuje současné církevní stavitelství v České republice. Recenzent oceňuje kvalitu obecných kapitol stejně jako stavební, technický a funkční popis jednotlivých staveb a jejich fotodokumentaci. Námitky má proti způsobu výběru staveb a upozorňuje na některé věcné chyby. and The publication under review is the first academic work systematically to document contemporary church architecture in the Czech Republic. The reviewer praises the quality of the general chapters as well as the description of the structure, engineering, and functions of the individual buildings and their documentation in photographs. He does, however, have some objections regarding the criteria for selecting the buildings, and also points out some factual errors.
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24. Odpověď Martinu Jindrovi

Creator:
Nešpor, Zdeněk R.
Type:
article and TEXT
Language:
Czech
Description:
Zdeněk R. Nešpor v reakci na Jindrovu polemiku nesouhlasí s některými jeho vývody a vyslovuje přání, aby se církve v České republice dokázaly otevřeně a pokorně vyrovnat se svou minulostí., In reply to Jindra’s reaction to his review, Zdeněk R. Nešpor voices objections to a number of Jindra’s conclusions, and expresses the wish that the churches in the Czech Republic would openly and modestly face up to their pasts., and Diskuse
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25. Opium notně vyčichlé?

Creator:
Nešpor, Zdeněk R.
Type:
article and TEXT
Language:
Czech
Description:
In this article the author presents a fundamental overview of developments in religion in Europe in the second half of the twentieth century. He compares the situation in West European countries and post-Communist countries, and, referring to the literature, analyzes some central trends. He explains, particularly the longstanding paradigmatic concept of secularization, whose currently most influential proponent is Steve Bruce, and three alternative models – Rodney Stark’s theory of rational religious choice, Danièle Hervieu-Léger’s concept of religious memory, and José Casanova’s version of the concept of three autonomous components of secularization (whose meeting led to a striking decline in churchbased religiousness in Western Europe). The author also considers questions of secularization and the subsequent changes outside and within the established churches, their legal standing, and infl uence on politics, the mass media, the school system, and other areas. He also explores the development and subsequent decline in the importance of new religious movements, including positions taken against them and against immigrants’ religiousness, as well as the infl uence of implicit religions. Whereas “political religion” has long lost its role in shaping identity, functional equivalents of religiousness appear mainly in European secularism, which, on the one hand, has Christian roots and has also quite successfully substituted for church-based Christianity, for example in the form of a negative European identity with regard to Muslims. In Late Modern Europe, the author argues, a great number of privatized religious or spiritual forms continue to exist. They may get the attention of only a small part of the public and encourage them to participate, but their infl uence as a cultural milieu is much larger. In Europe these and other religious processes are not asserted with equal force; though various forms of religion or non-religion have also been entering European politics and public life, they remain controversial partly because they are expressed in different measure and form.
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26. Paradox "opia lidu". Náboženství a (ne)spokojenost v současné české společnosti

Creator:
Nešpor, Zdeněk R.
Type:
article, model:article, and TEXT
Subject:
religiosity, subjective satisfaction, Czech Republic, and sociology of religion
Language:
Czech
Description:
The article focuses on the relationship of religionisity and subjective satisfaction, a problem that has recently become one of the topical themes of social sciences. The author on the one hand presents the great expectations that the society (even non-religious) puts in the "satisfactory" role of religion, and on the other hand their factual unfulfillment, or better to say the minimum real influence of (non-)religiosity upon the subjective contentment.
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29. Před 3/4 % stoletím...: kvantifikovaný esej o časopisecké produkci české sociologie před nástupem marxismu a dnes

Creator:
Nešpor, Zdeněk R.
Format:
print
Type:
model:internalpart and TEXT
Subject:
Czech sociology - history of, sociology of sociology, and sociological journals
Language:
Czech
Description:
This article focuses on Czech pre-Marxist sociological journals - Sociologická revue (established in 1930, published until 1940, and again in 1946-49) and Sociální problémy (established 1931, published 1931-1938/39 and 1947/48) - and compares how they functioned with the work of the contemporary Sociologický Časopis/Czech Sociological Review (analysed volumes 32 (1996) to 41 (2005)). Although the internal situation of the branch and its public evaluation were rather different during each of the two periods, the author believes that looking back at the well-established earlier period of Czech sociology can provide some comparative data for a better understanding of the current situation and its imperfections. First, the author quantitatively analyses the 'genre' composition of the old and new journals and concludes that in the earlier publications reviews and scientific polemics were more strongly represented, whilst the papers - especially those in Sociologická revue - were less likely to be connected with any empirical research. Conversely, the old sociologists were highly involved in the public sphere, which included student education and active participation in policy making. Nowadays, Czech sociologists tend to be wrapped up in themselves; they produce better theoretical and empirical papers, but the number produced per person has decreased, and their reception is probably weaker. In the article the author also analyses the means of recruitment of the journals' editorial boards, relations within the Czech sociological community itself and its relations abroad, and other issues of the sociology of Czech sociology, past and present.
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