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Tom\u00e1\u0161 Bub\u00edk, PhD (CV and publications)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Contact address:<\/strong> tomas.bubik@upol.cz<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Workplace<\/strong><br>Department of Sociology, Andragogy and Cultural Anthropology<br>Faculty of Arts<br>Palack\u00fd University in Olomouc<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Research interests<\/strong><br>history of the study of religion; philosophy of religion; modern philosophy; cognitive science of religion;  atheism and non-religion in modern society; funeral religiosity; religion in museums;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Position<\/strong><br>Associate professor and guarantor of the religious studies program (M.A. and Ph.D.)<br>Chair of the Doctoral Board of the Doctoral Religious Studies Programme<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Education and academic qualification<\/strong><br>2010 Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Faculty of Arts, UP in Olomouc<br>2004 Doctor of Philosophy at the Faculty of Arts, UP in Olomouc<br>1998 Master of Philosophy at the Faculty of Arts, UP Olomouc<br>1994 Master of Theology at UP in Olomouc<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Books (since Habilitation)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tom\u00e1\u0161 Bub\u00edk, Mark\u00e9ta Muczkov\u00e1, Nikola Svobodn\u00edkov\u00e1 (eds.). <em>Religious Studies Kaleidoscope.<\/em> Palack\u00fd University Press, Olomouc 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tom\u00e1\u0161 Bub\u00edk; Jakub Havl\u00ed\u010dek (eds.), <em>Academic Study of Religions in a Cognitive, Anthropological and Sociological Perspective.<\/em> Palack\u00fd University Press, Olomouc 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tom\u00e1\u0161 Bub\u00edk; Atko Remmel; David V\u00e1clav\u00edk (eds.), <em>Freethought and Atheism in Central and Eastern Europe: The Development of Secularity and Non-Religion<\/em>. Routledge, London 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tom\u00e1\u0161 Bub\u00edk, Henryk Hoffmann (eds.),<em> Studying Religions with the Iron Curtain Closed and Open. The Academic Study of Religion in Eastern Europe<\/em>, Brill, Leiden 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tom\u00e1\u0161 Bub\u00edk, <em>\u010cesk\u00e9 b\u00e1d\u00e1n\u00ed o n\u00e1bo\u017eenstv\u00ed ve 20. stolet\u00ed<\/em>, Nakladatelstv\u00ed Pavel Mervart: \u010cerven\u00fd Kostelec 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Journal articles and book chapters (since Habilitation)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bub\u00edk, T., V\u00e1clav\u00edk, D. (2026). Posts\u00e4kulares Laboratorium. Tschechiens vielf\u00e4ltige religi\u00f6se Landschaft. <em>Religion &amp; Gesellschaft in Ost und West<\/em> 1\/2026, 24\u201327. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jedli\u010dkov\u00e1, L., Bub\u00edk, T. (2025). Spiritualita v mana\u017eersk\u00fdch profes\u00edch: Kvalitativn\u00ed studie v \u010desk\u00e9m kontextu. <em>\u010cesk\u00fd lid<\/em> 3\/112, 289\u2013321. DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.21104\/CL.2025.3.02\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.21104\/CL.2025.3.02<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kotherov\u00e1, S., M\u00fcller, M., Jedli\u010dkov\u00e1, L.<em>, <\/em>Havl\u00ed\u010dek, J. and Bub\u00edk, T. (2024). \u201cWe Never Stop Singing\u201d: The Dynamics of the Mental and Physical Health of Czech Religious Pastors during&nbsp;the COVID-19 Pandemic. <em>Journal of Religion and Health<\/em>. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10943-023-01977-3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bub\u00edk, T., Havl\u00ed\u010dek, J., Muczkov\u00e1, M., Jedli\u010dkov\u00e1, L., \u010cejkov\u00e1, O., Hurt\u00edk, J. and Kub\u00e1lkov\u00e1, K. (2023). Places of the Dead and the Living: A Study of Cemetery Religious Symbolism as Funerary Expressions of Religiosity. <em>Slovak Ethnology<\/em> <em>71<\/em>\/4, 426\u2013447.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>M\u00fcller, M., Ad\u00e1mek, P., Kotherov\u00e1, S., Petr\u016f, M., Bub\u00edk,T., Dau\u0161ov\u00e1, A. and Pel\u00ed\u0161kov\u00e1, L. (2023). Conceptualisation of Uncertainty in Decision Neuroscience Research: Do We Really Know What Types of Uncertainties The Measured Neural Correlates Relate To? <i data-test=\"journal-title\">Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science<\/i> <em>57<\/em>, 88\u2013116.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bub\u00edk, T. (2022). The Czech Struggle for and against Religion in Public Space: The Case of Re-erecting of Marian Column in Prague from the Perspective of the Media. <em>Religion and Society in Central and Eastern Europe<\/em> <em>15<\/em>\/1, 21\u201335.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bub\u00edk, T., V\u00e1clav\u00edk, D. (2021). The Czech Study of Religions and Western Scholarship. <em>Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni<\/em> <em>87<\/em>(2), 554\u2013579.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bub\u00edk, T. Cognitive Science of Religion as a Search for a New Paradigm in the<br>Study of Religions, in Tom\u00e1\u0161 Bub\u00edk; Jakub Havl\u00ed\u010dek (eds.), <em>Academic Study of Religions in a Cognitive, Anthropological and Sociological Perspective.<\/em> Univerzita Palack\u00e9ho v Olomouci, Olomouc 2021, 9\u201337.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bub\u00edk, T. (2020). A Graveyard as a Home to Ghosts or a Subject of Scholarly Research? The Czech National Cemetery at Vy\u0161ehrad, <em>Changing Societies &amp; Personalities<\/em> <em>4<\/em>\/2, 136\u2013157.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bub\u00edk, T. and V\u00e1clav\u00edk, D. Freethinkers and Atheists in the Czech Lands in the Twentieth Century, In: <em>Freethought and Atheism in Central and Eastern Europe: The Development of Secularity and Non-religion, <\/em>Bub\u00edk, Tom\u00e1\u0161, Remmel, Atko-Sulhan, V\u00e1clav\u00edk, David (eds.), Routledge, London 2020, 58\u201383.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bub\u00edk, T., V\u00e1clav\u00edk, D. and Remmel, A. Nonreligion in the CEE Region: Some Remarks, In: <em>Freethought and Atheism in Central and Eastern Europe: The Development of Secularity and Non-religion, <\/em>Bub\u00edk, Tom\u00e1\u0161, Remmel, Atko-Sulhan, V\u00e1clav\u00edk, David (eds.), Routledge, London 2020, 320\u2013335.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bub\u00edk, T., Remmel, A. and V\u00e1clav\u00edk, D. Studying Freethought and Atheism in Central and Eastern Europe: An Introduction, In: <em>Freethought and Atheism in Central and Eastern Europe: The Development of Secularity and Non-religion, <\/em>Bub\u00edk, Tom\u00e1\u0161, Remmel, Atko-Sulhan, V\u00e1clav\u00edk, David (eds.), Routledge, London 2020, 1\u20138.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bub\u00edk, T. (2019). Tell a Story of the Nation: Image of Religion and Non-religion in the Czech National Museum, <em>Historick\u00e1 sociologie<\/em> <em>10<\/em>\/2, 11\u201333.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bub\u00edk, T. (2018). Is the Study of Religions in the Eastern Europe still behind the Iron Curtain? Response to Gregory Alles, Barbara Krawcowicz and Stefan Ragaz, <em>Method<\/em> &amp; <em>Theory in the Study of Religion<\/em> <em>30<\/em>, 191\u2013199.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bub\u00edk, T. (2017) Atheism, Agnosticism and Criticism of Religion of Robert Ingersoll in the Context of the Czech Freethinking Movement, in:&nbsp;<em>American and British Studies Annual 10<\/em>, 46\u201360.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bub\u00edk, T. (2016). Religia i religioznawstwo w uj\u0119ciu Otakara Pertolda (1884-1965), <em>Studia Religiologica 49<\/em>\/4, 353\u2013367.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bub\u00edk, T. Rethinking the Relationship between the Study of Religions, Theology and Religious Concerns: A Response to Some Aspects of Wiebe\u2019s and Martin\u2019s Paper, In: Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe (eds.), <em>Conversations and Controversies in the Scientific Study of Religion. <\/em>Brill, Leiden 2016, 260\u2013270. (reprint of the paper)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bub\u00edk, T. The Czech Journay to the Academic Study of Religions: from the Critique of Religion to Its Study, In: Tom\u00e1\u0161 Bub\u00edk, Henryk Hoffmann (eds.),<em> Studying Religions with the Iron Curtain Closed and Open. The Academic Study of Religion in Eastern Europe<\/em>, Brill Publishing House, Leiden 2015, 1\u201355.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bub\u00edk, T. and Hoffmann, H. Preface, In: Bub\u00edk, T. and Hoffmann, H. (eds.),<em> Studying Religions with the Iron Curtain Closed and Open. The Academic Study of Religion in Eastern Europe<\/em>, Brill Publishing House, Leiden 2015, VII\u2013XVI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bub\u00edk, T. (2014). Relationship between Religion, Politics and Society in the First Postcommunist Decade: Czech Republic and Poland Exemple, in: <em>Anthropos: Internationale Zeitschrift f\u00fcr V\u00f6lker- und Sprachenkunde<\/em>, Fribourg: Ed. St. Paul <em>109<\/em>\/1, 243\u2013249.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bub\u00edk, T. (2013). West sees East: Cultural Stereotypes in the Czech Studies of Indian Religions in the Twentieth Century. <em>Temenos. Nordic Journal of Comparative Religion<\/em> <em>49<\/em>\/1, 9\u201335.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bub\u00edk, T. (2012). Robert Bellah\u2019s Concept of Civil Religion in America and the Idea of New Religion in Czech Thinking of the Twentieth Century. <em>American and British Studies Annual<\/em> <em>5<\/em>, 70\u201383.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bub\u00edk, T. and Babinov, Y. (2012). \u041e\u0431\u0440\u0430\u0437 \u0438\u0441\u043b\u0430\u043c\u0430 \u0432 \u0441\u043e\u0432\u0440\u0435\u043c\u0435\u043d\u043d\u043e\u0439 \u0447\u0435\u0448\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0439 \u043b\u0438\u0442\u0435\u0440\u0430\u0442\u0443\u0440\u0435, <em>SevGTU Journal<\/em> <em>126<\/em>, 149\u2013152.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bub\u00edk, T. (2012). Rethinking the Relationship between the Study of Religions, Theology and Religious Concerns: A Response to Some Aspects of Wiebe\u2019s and Martin\u2019s Paper. <em>Religio. Revue pro religionistiku<\/em> 19\/1, 43\u201353.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bub\u00edk, T. , Hoffmann, H. and Babinov, Y. (2011). History and Methods in the Study of Religions in Central and Eastern Europe. <em>Pantheon 6<\/em>\/1, 44\u201365.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bub\u00edk, T. (2010). Osobiste do\u015bwiadczenia a naukowe za\u0142o\u017cenia w stosunku do religii. <em>Przegl\u0105d Religioznawczy 235<\/em>\/1, 73\u201382.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bub\u00edk, T. (2009). Outsider and Insider Perspectives in the Czech Study of Religions. <em>Temenos. Nordic Journal of Comparative Religion<\/em> <em>45<\/em>\/2, 235\u2013254.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Participation in world and European congresses<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From Scientific Atheism to the Study of Religion on the Example of CASR Development (presented at 17th Annual Conference of the EASR \u201cReligion \u2013 Continuations and Disruptions\u201d, Tartu, Estonia 2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Church Reformer Jan Hus as a Framework for the Re-interpretation of Religious, National, and Social Identity (presented at WWI World congress of IAHR in Erfurt, Germany 2015).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mutations in the History of the Academic Study of Religions in Eastern Europe (presented at&nbsp; 11th annual conference of the EASR &#8222;Religion, Migration, Mutation&#8220;, Liverpool, England, 2013).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rethinking the Study of Religions and Theology: Is this Issue just Historical or has it got recent relevance? (presented at 10th annual conference of the EASR &#8222;New movements in Religion&#8220;, Budapest, Hungary, 2011).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>History and Methods in the Study of Religions in Eastern Europe (presented at XXth Quinquennial World Congress IAHR &#8222;Religion a Human Phenomenon&#8220;, Toronto, Canada, 2010).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Various Historical Constructions and Deconstructions of the History of Religions: Czech Example: Religion in the History of European Culture (presented at 9th annual conference of the EASR, Messina, Italy, 2009).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Most important lectures and research stays at foreign universities<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Central European University, Center for Religious Studies (March 7, 2019); invited lecture &#8222;Religion and Non-religion in Museums&#8220; by Prof. Karsten Wilke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sapienza, Universita di Roma, Dipartimento di Storia Antropologia Religioni Arte Spettacolo (8 April 2019); invited lecture &#8222;Religion and Non-religion in the Czech National Museum&#8220; by invitation of prof. Alessandro Saggioro and Dr. Valerio Severino.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Neurocognitive Processing Laboratory , Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Krak\u00f3w (27 April &#8211; 1 May 2015) internship by invitation of the laboratory director Dr. Magdalena Senderecka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fulbright-Masaryk scholarship for 2012 (six-month research stay at the Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S. (30 March &#8211; 24 September 2012); supervisor prof. Ann Taves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>University of Tokyo, Invited lecture (Dec. 1, 2012) on &#8222;West meets East&#8220; at the invitation of Prof. Satoko Fujiwara.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Institute of Religious Studies, Jagiellonian University, Krak\u00f3w (26-29 April 2011); invited lecture on &#8222;Historia religioznawstwa w Czechach&#8220; at the invitation of Prof. Henryk Hoffmann.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Institute of Science of Religions, Jagellonian University, Krak\u00f3w (9 &#8211; 11 May 2010); invited lecture &#8222;Historia religioznawstwa w Czechach&#8220; on the basis of an invitation from Prof. Henryk Hoffmann.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Grant projects<\/strong><br>Grant OP VVV New PhD in Religious Studies at UP &#8211; research and technical support (2017-2022) &#8211; Principal Investigator<br>Grant OP VVV New PhD in Religious Studies at UP &#8211; preparation of accreditation and staffing (2017-2022) &#8211; Principal Investigator<br>GA\u010cR 18-11345S (2018-2020) &#8211; Principal Investigator of the project &#8222;Atheism, Freethinking and Secularization in Central and Eastern Europe&#8220;<br>GA\u010cR 401\/10\/0311 (2010-2013), Principal Investigator of the project &#8222;Development of the Study of Religions in Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th Century&#8220;<br>GA\u010cR 401\/07\/0203 (2007-2009), Principal Investigator of the project &#8222;History of Czech Religious Studies&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Appreciation by the scientific community<\/strong><br>President of the Czech Society for Religious Studies (from 2015-2018 and 2018-2021)<br>Member of the Committee of the International Study of Religion in Eastern and Central Europe Association (ISORECEA)<br>Evaluator of the National Accreditation Office (NAO) working group on Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies (2017 to date)<br>Member of the permanent working group of the Accreditation Commission of the Ministry of Education for Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies (from 2012-2017)<br>Member of the Ethics Committee of UPOL (from 2018-2021)<br>Editor-in-chief of the journal e-Rhizome (https:\/\/rhizome.upol.cz\/)<br>Editor-in-chief of the Religious studies journal Pantheon (2006-2016)<br>Member of the editorial board of the journal Religio. Journal for Religious Studies<br>Member of the Doctoral Council for Doctoral Studies in Religious Studies at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University<br>Member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Theology, JU in \u010cesk\u00e9 Bud\u011bjovice (2012-2020)<br>Member of the Board of Doctoral Studies in Cultural Anthropology at the Faculty of Arts, UPOL<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contact address: tomas.bubik@upol.cz WorkplaceDepartment of Sociology, Andragogy and Cultural AnthropologyFaculty of ArtsPalack\u00fd University in Olomouc Research interestshistory of the study of religion; philosophy of religion; modern philosophy; cognitive science of religion; atheism and non-religion in modern society; funeral religiosity; religion in museums; PositionAssociate professor and guarantor of the religious studies program (M.A. and Ph.D.)Chair of [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/religionistika.upol.cz\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/religionistika.upol.cz\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/religionistika.upol.cz\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/religionistika.upol.cz\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/religionistika.upol.cz\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":72,"href":"https:\/\/religionistika.upol.cz\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1198,"href":"https:\/\/religionistika.upol.cz\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/765\/revisions\/1198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/religionistika.upol.cz\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}