Pavel Horák
Pavel Horák
Mgr. Pavel HORÁK, Ph.D.
Department of Critical Heritage Studies
e-mail: horak@eu.cas.cz
tel.: +420 222 828 602
ORCID iD: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3789-977X
Education
2018 Ph.D. in studies of religion, University of Pardubice, Department for the Study of Religions
2013 Mgr. in studies of religion, University of Pardubice, Department for the Study of Religions
2011 Bc. in studies of religion, University of Pardubice, Department for the Study of Religions
Research interests
New religious movements, especially modern/contemporary Paganism; Christian theology; history and anthropology of religion; magic; (western) esotericism
Recent publications
2023. “Universalia, the Society of Czechoslovak Hermeticists: Between Occult Universalism and Nationalism.” Aries: Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism, 2023, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 1–29. doi: 10.1163/15700593-02301004
2022. “Discovering Slavic Mythology between East and West: Folklore Research and the Pagan Past in the Service of Nation-Building” Folklore, vol. 133, no. 4 (December), pp. 463-486. doi: 10.1080/0015587X.2022.2077562
2022. “‘If the Base Fundamentals Are Too Much for You…’: Reconsidering the Existence of Doctrines in Modern Paganism” Nova Religio: Journal of Emergent and Alternative Religions, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 30-45. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2022.26.2.30.
2021. "Magic between Europe and India: On Mantras, Coercion of Gods, and the Limits of Current Debates" Religions 12, no. 2: 87. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12020087(s Martinem Fárkem)
2021. Who is, and Who Is Not a Pagan? Struggles in Defining Contemporary Paganism. Pomegranate: International Journal of Pagan Studies, 22 (2), (forthcoming).
2021. Magic between Europe and India: On Mantras, Coercion of Gods, and the Limits of Current Debates Religions. Religions, 2: 87 (2): 87. (with Martin Fárek).
2017. The Image of Paganism in the British Romanticism”. Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies, 19 (2): 141-65.
2016. The Image of Paganism in the Age of Reason: From Idolatry towards a Secular Concept of Polytheism". Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies, 18 (2): 125–49.
Funding
2021 How to Magically Edify a Nation? Occultism and Nationalism in Central Europe, 1890-1939 (Jan Patočka Junior Visiting Fellowship – Institut für die Wissenschaften von Menschen, Vienna)
2020 “Magic and Supernatural vis-a-vis The Czechoslovak and Czech State”. (Strategy AV21).
2019 Erasmus+ Postdoctoral Internship (University of Amsterdam; The Ritman Library and Research Institute)
2018 Erasmus+ Postdoctoral Internship (Ghent University, Belgium)
2016 Erasmus Internship (Ghent University, Belgium)
2015 Fieldwork in Ireland – Internal Grant Agency, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, University of Pardubice (University College Cork)
2015 Fieldwork in Slovenia – CEEPUS Fellowship (University of Ljublanja).
Membership
EASA – European Association of Social Anthropologists
CASA – Czech Association for Social Anthropology
CASR – Czech Association for the Study of Religions
ESSWE – The European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism
Societas Magica
