Religious-secular as non-competitive : Encouraging participative church in a Czech Catholic diocese

SPALOVÁ, Barbora, Vojtěch PELIKÁN and Marek LIŠKA. Religious-secular as non-competitive : Encouraging participative church in a Czech Catholic diocese. Social Compass. London: SAGE Publications, 2024, neuveden, neuveden, p. 1-22. ISSN 0037-7686. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00377686241241017.

Basic information

• Original name: Religious-secular as non-competitive : Encouraging participative church in a Czech Catholic diocese
• Authors: SPALOVÁ, Barbora (203 Czech Republic), Vojtěch PELIKÁN (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Marek LIŠKA (203 Czech Republic).
• Edition: Social Compass, London, SAGE Publications, 2024, 0037-7686.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Article in a journal
• Field of Study: 50404 Antropology, ethnology
• Country of publisher: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: article - open access
• Impact factor: Impact factor: 0.900 in 2022
• Organization unit: Faculty of Social Studies
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00377686241241017
• UT WoS: 999
• Keywords in English: Catholic Church; Christianity; Czech Republic; participative research; religious; secular
• Tags: online first
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

The presented text builds upon 4 years of applied research intended to support the transformation of a Czech Catholic diocese into a more participative organisation, internally and externally. This process allowed us to see different positions in the relationship between the religious and the secular within the highly secularised Czech Republic. In some places, the religious and the secular appeared incompatible. Elsewhere they influenced each other and intermingled. And still, in other places, the religious escaped horizontal opposition to the secular and differentiated itself vertically as a transcendental other. In all cases, it was evident that we cannot consider the religious and the secular as categories which define mutually competitive worlds. This definitional opposition is disappearing, and the terms are losing clarity as well as the capacity to organise the lives of Western subjects. We suggest using Dalferth’s differentiation of R-secularity and D-secularity as a tool to gasp this shift.

Links

• TL02000132, research and development project: Name: Společnost a církev v procesu restitucí církevního majetku: Podpora participace

Investor: Technology Agency of the Czech Republic