Elastické ortodoxie a kulturní náboženství : křesťanská iliberální výzva pluralismu a sekularismu za instrumentalismem
| Title in English | Elastic orthodoxies and cultural religion : the Christian illiberal challenge to pluralism and secularism beyond instrumentalism |
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| Year of publication | 2025 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | More than three decades ago, the sociology of religion turned away from the linear secularization thesis as a structural trend of modernity. However, when analyzing current manifestations of religious illiberalism and nationalism, researchers often resort to the perspective of opportunistic mobilization of believers. In my research, I focused on networks of political and conservative Christian interest groups shaping an anti-pluralistic social vision and strategies for challenging institutionalized secularism. This process is interpreted based on the results of a discursive analysis of elite political and religious figures and the "domestic knowledge industry," i.e., expert religion linked to Christian traditions in the United States and Poland. Examining the changes in religious authorities and the adaptation of their self-understanding as cultural traditions helps to grasp more comprehensively the paradoxical situation of the weakening of religious institutions and the reconstruction of the religious component in the public sphere or in the governing apparatus of states. |
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