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Bar as Meaningful Place in Migration

Zuzana Terry — 2022-12-13

This paper presents the results of a six-month-long field research conducted in the capital of the Czech Republic in 2013. It is based on the research of a bar visited by Anglophone migrants. It aims to reveal how becoming a bar regular helped migrants to adapt to the new country and maintain their lives there. The studied group of migrants placed important practices into the space of the bar, through which they formed their meaning and memory in a new place, their new home. They domesticated the place to the extent that they had their own seats, glasses, and any newcomer, whether Czech or migrant, was observed and evaluated. The bar played the role of an intimate space; it was home-like and it was socially and materially changed by the migrants. The bar was a place where the migrants’ social bonds were performed and materialised. It was a place in the time and space of real physical contact within a migratory network.

Nikolas Rose – Des Fitzgerald: The Urban Brain. Mental Health in the Vital City

Martin Novák — 2022-07-01

A review of the book by Nikolas Rose.

Lenka Jakoubková Budilová – Thomas Hylland Eriksen – Gunnar Haaland – Miroslav Hroch – Marek Jakoubek: Etnické skupiny, hranice a identity

Kateřina Krupková — 2022-07-01

A review of the book by Lenka Jakoubková Budilová, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Gunnar Haaland, Miroslav Hroch and Marek Jakoubek.

Legault-Laberge, Raphaël Mathieu : Quatre Essais d’anthropologie des Religions

Anežka Miková — 2022-07-01

A review of the book by Legault-Laberge and Raphaël Mathieu.

Green Satan

Jakub Jahl — 2022-07-01

This article deals with the ecological and environmental tendencies of the two largest Satanic groups in the Czech Republic. It first recapitulates the connection between mainstream religions and ecology. It then describes the absence of Satanism in major scholarly publications and uncovers a strong link between Satanism and ecology/animal rights. The text illustrates this in the words of Anton LaVey, Peter H. Gilmore, and several Satanic organizations including the Church of Satan, Temple of Set, Dragon Rouge, The Satanic Temple, and others. The article concludes by looking for ecological tendencies in the teachings of the two largest Satanic groups in the Czech Republic – the local version of LaVey’s Church of Satan and the Czech-influenced Community of Satan. Finally, the text briefly mentions the main research findings of these groups and concludes by showing them in relation to Bron Taylor’s model of dark green religions.

Getting Up from the Knees

Zora Procházková — 2022-12-01

Academic edition of an exceptional source depicting (records from) observations of Prague Christian churches’ services in the mid-1960s, supplemented with a contextualizing introduction and historico-religious footnotes by the editor. The specificity of the material is that the original source takes the form of (commented) participatory observation, it is very open and at the same time it contains material from (almost) all existing churches and religious societies, respectively individual parishes, congregations and places of worship in the city of Prague. Due to its length is the edition divided into several parts; this third part contains the first part of Roman Catholic worships (churches A–N).