Perceived Changes in Political Attitudes among Religious Converts in the Czech Republic

VENCÁLEK, Matouš. Perceived Changes in Political Attitudes among Religious Converts in the Czech Republic. In 2022 European Association for the Study of Religions conference: Religions and States of Freedom, 27 June-1 July, 2022, Cork, Ireland. 2022.

Základní údaje

Originální název

Perceived Changes in Political Attitudes among Religious Converts in the Czech Republic

Autoři

VENCÁLEK, Matouš

Vydání

2022 European Association for the Study of Religions conference: Religions and States of Freedom, 27 June-1 July, 2022, Cork, Ireland, 2022

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Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

60304 Religious studies

Stát vydavatele

Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

religion; conversion; politics

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

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Anotace

V originále

This paper presents an effort to provide a deeper insight into the relation of religion and politics on psychological level, that is on the relation of religious and political attitudes. To do so, it focuses on the process of religious conversion and the changes that converts perceive themselves. Does political orientation change together with the change in religious orientation? And if so, do such changes occur both on the liberalism—conservativism scale and on the left—right economic scale? To answer these questions, I gathered answers from relatively recent converts belonging to various traditions regarding their attitudes before and after conversion. Of course, the accuracy of such retrospectivity is always tricky, but the sole notion of perceived changes – no matter how close to reality they are – provides an important insight into the processes taking place during and after the conversion.