Faculty staff

doc. PhDr. David Václavík, Ph.D.

Associate professor, Department for the Study of Religions

correspondence Address:
Arna Nováka 1/1, 602 00 Brno

office: bldg. J/J.512
Jaselská 201/18
602 00 Brno

phone:	+420 549 49 8125
e‑mail:

How to generate religion: from modeling to enacting systemic patterns of religious thinking and behavior – graduate 2020
Keeping God's secrets: On the Psychology of Secrecy in Religion – graduate 2018
"And from that time God works in my life a lot..." Conversion as autobiografical and commitment signal. – graduate 2014
Is Cultural Evolution Evolution? Some Methodological Problems of Application of Evolutionary Theory on Culture, with Special Reference to Religion – graduate 2014

In the Name of Christian Civilization and Religious Freedom: Transnational Resistance of Conservative Christianity Against the Background of Cultural Conflicts – ongoing study
Historical Development of Antinomianism in the Left-Hand Path Current of Western Esotericism: Social Construction of the Adversarial – ongoing study
Modern pagan music in the Czech Republic – graduate 2023
The transmission of intergroup aggression: Prestige, credible displays, and coalitionary signals – graduate 2023

Psychosis or psychospiritual crisis? The role of spirituality in contemporary society – ongoing study
Testing the costly signaling theory of religion in the field and in the laboratory – graduate 2023