Spiritualita versus náboženství: Disciplinovaná teorie, nebo disciplinovaná data?
| Title in English | Spirituality versus Religion: Disciplined theory, or disciplined data? |
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| Year of publication | 2011 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | This conference contribution discussed the relation between definitions of "spirituality" and design and results of empirical researches in sociology of religion. It focused on the Kendal Project (conducted by Paul Heelas and Linda Woodhead) – one of the most cited empirical researches of religion and detraditionalized spirituality. By the example of this research project and its results, I dealt with interconnections between the authors' specific position within the secularization debate, their concept of spirituality (of subjective-life) and their suppositions of the radically differing nature of (subjective-life) spirituality and (life-as) religion. I discussed how these theoretical positions were reflected in the design of the questionnaires used in Kendal as well as in the resulting picture of "religion" and "spirituality" in Kendal. The contribution was meant as an impulse for discussion about alternative pictures of religious situation in Kendal (or potentially at other places) that would be thinkable and defensible on the basis of available empirical data. |