Assoc. prof. Tomáš Bubík, PhD (CV and publications)
Born: 1967 in Trinec (Czech Rep.), married, two children
Permanent residence: Sokolovská 546, Chrudim 3, 537 01
Phone: +420 724 100 674
tomas.bubik@upol.cz
Workplace
Department of Sociology, Andragogy and Cultural Anthropology
Faculty of Arts
Palacký University in Olomouc
Research interests
history of the study of religion; cognitive study of religion; religion in museums; atheism and non-religion in modern society; funeral religiosity;
Position
Head of the Cognitive Laboratory (CO-LAB)
Associate professor and guarantor of the religious studies program (M.A. and Ph.D.)
2020 – Chair of the Doctoral Board of the Doctoral Religious Studies Programme
Education and academic qualification
2010 Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Faculty of Arts, UP in Olomouc
2004 Doctor of Philosophy at the Faculty of Arts, UP in Olomouc
1998 Master of Philosophy at the Faculty of Arts, UP Olomouc
1994 Master of Theology at UP in Olomouc
The most important grant projects
Grant OP VVV New PhD in Religious Studies at UP – research and technical support (2017-2022) – Principal Investigator
Grant OP VVV New PhD in Religious Studies at UP – preparation of accreditation and staffing (2017-2022) – Principal Investigator
GAČR 18-11345S (2018-2020) – Principal Investigator of the project „Atheism, Freethinking and Secularization in Central and Eastern Europe“
GAČR 401/10/0311 (2010-2013), Principal Investigator of the project „Development of the Study of Religions in Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th Century“
GAČR 401/07/0203 (2007-2009), Principal Investigator of the project „History of Czech Religious Studies“
Appreciation by the scientific community
President of the Czech Society for Religious Studies (from 2015-2018 and 2018-2021)
Member of the Committee of the International Study of Religion in Eastern and Central Europe Association (ISORECEA)
Evaluator of the National Accreditation Office (NAO) working group on Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies (2017 to date)
Member of the permanent working group of the Accreditation Commission of the Ministry of Education for Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies (from 2012-2017)
Member of the Ethics Committee of UPOL (from 2018-2021)
Editor-in-chief of the journal e-Rhizome (https://rhizome.upol.cz/)
Editor-in-chief of the Religious studies journal Pantheon (2006-2016)
Member of the editorial board of the journal Religio. Journal for Religious Studies
Member of the Doctoral Council for Doctoral Studies in Religious Studies at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University
Member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Theology, JU in České Budějovice (2012-2020)
Member of the Board of Doctoral Studies in Cultural Anthropology at the Faculty of Arts, UPOL
Books (last 10 years)
Tomáš Bubík; Jakub Havlíček (eds.), Academic Study of Religions in a Cognitive, Anthropological and Sociological Perspective. Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, Olomouc 2021.
Tomáš Bubík; Atko Remmel; David Václavík (eds.), Freethought and Atheism in Central and Eastern Europe: The Development of Secularity and Non-Religion. Routledge, London 2020.
Tomáš Bubík, Henryk Hoffmann (eds.), Studying Religions with the Iron Curtain Closed and Open. The Academic Study of Religion in Eastern Europe, Brill, Leiden 2015.
Tomáš Bubík, České bádání o náboženství ve 20. století, Nakladatelství Pavel Mervart: Červený Kostelec 2010.
Journal articles and book chapters (last 10 years)
Kotherová, S., Müller, M., Jedličková, L., Havlíček, J. and Bubík, T. (2024). “We Never Stop Singing”: The Dynamics of the Mental and Physical Health of Czech Religious Pastors during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Religion and Health. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-023-01977-3
Bubík, T., Havlíček, J., Muczková, M., Jedličková, L., Čejková, O., Hurtík, J. and Kubálková, K. (2023). Places of the Dead and the Living: A Study of Cemetery Religious Symbolism as Funerary Expressions of Religiosity. Slovak Ethnology 71/4, 426–447.
Müller, M., Adámek, P., Kotherová, S., Petrů, M., Bubík,T., Daušová, A. and Pelíšková, L. (2023). Conceptualisation of Uncertainty in Decision Neuroscience Research: Do We Really Know What Types of Uncertainties The Measured Neural Correlates Relate To? Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science 57, 88–116.
Bubík, 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. Religion and Society in Central and Eastern Europe 15/1, 21–35.
Bubík, T., Václavík, D. (2021). The Czech Study of Religions and Western Scholarship. Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni 87(2), 554–579.
Bubík, T. Cognitive Science of Religion as a Search for a New Paradigm in the
Study of Religions, in Tomáš Bubík; Jakub Havlíček (eds.), Academic Study of Religions in a Cognitive, Anthropological and Sociological Perspective. Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, Olomouc 2021, 9–37.
Bubík, T. (2020). A Graveyard as a Home to Ghosts or a Subject of Scholarly Research? The Czech National Cemetery at Vyšehrad, Changing Societies & Personalities 4/2, 136–157.
Bubík, T. and Václavík, D. Freethinkers and Atheists in the Czech Lands in the Twentieth Century, In: Freethought and Atheism in Central and Eastern Europe: The Development of Secularity and Non-religion, Bubík, Tomáš, Remmel, Atko-Sulhan, Václavík, David (eds.), Routledge, London 2020, 58–83.
Bubík, T., Václavík, D. and Remmel, A. Nonreligion in the CEE Region: Some Remarks, In: Freethought and Atheism in Central and Eastern Europe: The Development of Secularity and Non-religion, Bubík, Tomáš, Remmel, Atko-Sulhan, Václavík, David (eds.), Routledge, London 2020, 320–335.
Bubík, T., Remmel, A. and Václavík, D. Studying Freethought and Atheism in Central and Eastern Europe: An Introduction, In: Freethought and Atheism in Central and Eastern Europe: The Development of Secularity and Non-religion, Bubík, Tomáš, Remmel, Atko-Sulhan, Václavík, David (eds.), Routledge, London 2020, 1–8.
Bubík, T. (2019). Tell a Story of the Nation: Image of Religion and Non-religion in the Czech National Museum, Historická sociologie 10/2, 11–33.
Bubík, 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, Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 30, 191–199.
Bubík, T. (2017) Atheism, Agnosticism and Criticism of Religion of Robert Ingersoll in the Context of the Czech Freethinking Movement, in: American and British Studies Annual 10, 46–60.
Bubík, T. (2016). Religia i religioznawstwo w ujęciu Otakara Pertolda (1884-1965), Studia Religiologica 49/4, 353–367.
Bubík, T. Rethinking the Relationship between the Study of Religions, Theology and Religious Concerns: A Response to Some Aspects of Wiebe’s and Martin’s Paper, In: Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe (eds.), Conversations and Controversies in the Scientific Study of Religion. Brill, Leiden 2016, 260–270. (reprint of the paper)
Bubík, T. The Czech Journay to the Academic Study of Religions: from the Critique of Religion to Its Study, In: Tomáš Bubík, Henryk Hoffmann (eds.), Studying Religions with the Iron Curtain Closed and Open. The Academic Study of Religion in Eastern Europe, Brill Publishing House, Leiden 2015, 1–55.
Bubík, T. and Hoffmann, H. Preface, In: Bubík, T. and Hoffmann, H. (eds.), Studying Religions with the Iron Curtain Closed and Open. The Academic Study of Religion in Eastern Europe, Brill Publishing House, Leiden 2015, VII–XVI.
Bubík, T. (2014). Relationship between Religion, Politics and Society in the First Postcommunist Decade: Czech Republic and Poland Exemple, in: Anthropos: Internationale Zeitschrift für Völker- und Sprachenkunde, Fribourg: Ed. St. Paul 109/1, 243–249.
Bubík, T. (2013). West sees East: Cultural Stereotypes in the Czech Studies of Indian Religions in the Twentieth Century. Temenos. Nordic Journal of Comparative Religion 49/1, 9–35.
Bubík, T. (2012). Robert Bellah’s Concept of Civil Religion in America and the Idea of New Religion in Czech Thinking of the Twentieth Century. American and British Studies Annual 5, 70–83.
Bubík, T. and Babinov, Y. (2012). Образ ислама в современной чешской литературе, SevGTU Journal 126, 149–152.
Bubík, T. (2012). Rethinking the Relationship between the Study of Religions, Theology and Religious Concerns: A Response to Some Aspects of Wiebe’s and Martin’s Paper. Religio. Revue pro religionistiku 19/1, 43–53.
Bubík, T. , Hoffmann, H. and Babinov, Y. (2011). History and Methods in the Study of Religions in Central and Eastern Europe. Pantheon 6/1, 44–65.
Bubík, T. (2010). Osobiste doświadczenia a naukowe założenia w stosunku do religii. Przegląd Religioznawczy 235/1, 73–82.
Bubík, T. (2009). Outsider and Insider Perspectives in the Czech Study of Religions. Temenos. Nordic Journal of Comparative Religion 45/2, 235–254.
Participation in world and European congresses
From Scientific Atheism to the Study of Religion on the Example of CASR Development (presented at 17th Annual Conference of the EASR “Religion – Continuations and Disruptions”, Tartu, Estonia 2019).
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).
Mutations in the History of the Academic Study of Religions in Eastern Europe (presented at 11th annual conference of the EASR „Religion, Migration, Mutation“, Liverpool, England, 2013).
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 „New movements in Religion“, Budapest, Hungary, 2011).
History and Methods in the Study of Religions in Eastern Europe (presented at XXth Quinquennial World Congress IAHR „Religion a Human Phenomenon“, Toronto, Canada, 2010).
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).
Most important lectures and research stays at foreign universities
Central European University, Center for Religious Studies (March 7, 2019); invited lecture „Religion and Non-religion in Museums“ by Prof. Karsten Wilke.
Sapienza, Universita di Roma, Dipartimento di Storia Antropologia Religioni Arte Spettacolo (8 April 2019); invited lecture „Religion and Non-religion in the Czech National Museum“ by invitation of prof. Alessandro Saggioro and Dr. Valerio Severino.
Neurocognitive Processing Laboratory , Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Kraków (27 April – 1 May 2015) internship by invitation of the laboratory director Dr. Magdalena Senderecka.
Fulbright-Masaryk scholarship for 2012 (six-month research stay at the Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S. (30 March – 24 September 2012); supervisor prof. Ann Taves.
University of Tokyo, Invited lecture (Dec. 1, 2012) on „West meets East“ at the invitation of Prof. Satoko Fujiwara.
Institute of Religious Studies, Jagiellonian University, Kraków (26-29 April 2011); invited lecture on „Historia religioznawstwa w Czechach“ at the invitation of Prof. Henryk Hoffmann.
Institute of Science of Religions, Jagellonian University, Kraków (9 – 11 May 2010); invited lecture „Historia religioznawstwa w Czechach“ on the basis of an invitation from Prof. Henryk Hoffmann.