Barbora Spalová
Biographic Data
| ID | 160296 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbora Spalová |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbora |
| FAMILY NAME | Spalová |
| SIGNATURE | SPALOVÁ B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Charles University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6930-709X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Stability as a tool of transformation
This article examines how the neo-monastic community Servant Partners reinterprets the Benedictine value of stability within the volatile socio-economic landscape of Silicon Valley. Drawing on six months of ethnographic fieldwork in San José, California, it situates the community’s long-term, place-based commitments within broader processes of evangelical re-urbanisation and the anthropology of values. I show how Servant Partners’ practice of ‘re…
Church Life Live
The unprecedented halt of social gatherings imposed by the COVID -19 pandemic that began in the spring of 2020 highlighted the centrality of ritual participation in the Christian sense of belonging. Offering members of religious communities opportunities and instruments for sustaining their religiosity became a challenge. This time of crisis, adaptation and improvisation thus also shook what it meant to belong to a community of believers. Based o…
Religious-secular as non-competitive
The presented text builds upon 4 years of applied research intended to support the transformation of a Czech Catholic diocese into a more participative organisation, internally and externally. This process allowed us to see different positions in the relationship between the religious and the secular within the highly secularised Czech Republic. In some places, the religious and the secular appeared incompatible. Elsewhere they influenced each ot…
Translating secular-religious divide
The aim of this paper is to inquire into the Christian distinctiveness of church schools as an interactively achieved pragmatic resource. The ethnomethodological perspective incorporated in this research offers an actor- and meaning-focused take on the question of what makes Christian schools different from public schools. We connect this issue to the secular-religious divide debate and argue that church schools in Czechia and Slovakia function a…
Monastère et société
In 1990 the Cistercian monastery of Vyšší Brod in Czech Republic again welcomed monks within its walls after four decades of absence during the communist regime. The reestablishment of monastic life brought new negotiations about the position of the monastery in society. The Cistercian community seeks to revive the place as the place of Cistercian spirituality. Exploring the different layers of memory related to the monastery, we analyse the hete…
Kees de Groot, The Liquidation of the Church
The book Liquidation of the Church has seemingly provocative name but also the long history of deep interest in church-society relations. The author, graduated sociologist and practical theologian, worked many years on different case studies in the Netherlands which he effectively brought in one original theoretical frame. It is mirrored in its structure: After introducing the concept of the liquidation of the church, Kees de Groot displays first…
Remembering the German Past in the Czech Lands
The objective of this paper is to document the ongoing shift from communicative to cultural memory of war and post-war events in the Czech Republic by using an example of a local struggle about a memorial for German inhabitants of a Czech town killed in June 1945. Thanks to an anthropological and social geographical approach based on interviews, family memory research, observations, and analysis of archive materials, it is possible to reconstruct…
La Question des Allemands Sudètes au Théâtre
Face a la polarisation du discours politique et scientifique sur l’expulsion des Allemands sudetes, l’article explore l’aptitude du theâtre a procurer les moyens d’un discours alternatif. Considerant le theâtre en tant que pratique sociale, l’auteur analyse un corpus de pieces creees entre 1990 et 2013, en particulier la facon dont elles representent l’evenement, la participation qu’elles suscitent de la part du public et la transformation social…
La Question des Allemands Sudètes au Théâtre
Face à la polarisation du discours politique et scientifique sur l’expulsion des Allemands sudètes, l’article explore l’aptitude du théâtre à procurer les moyens d’un discours alternatif. Considérant le théâtre en tant que pratique sociale, l’auteur analyse un corpus de pièces créées entre 1990 et 2013, en particulier la façon dont elles représentent l’événement, la participation qu’elles suscitent de la part du public et la transformation social…
La révolution de velours » dans les sciences sociales tchèques
“The Velvet Revolution” in the Czech Social Sciences D rawing on biographical interviews with the protagonists of qualitative social science research in the Czech Republic, this article retraces the evolution of the qualitative approach before and after 1989 and presents in greater detail six major research projects conducted in the post-communist era. It takes a special interest in how the actors view their own work and offers a comparison of th…
Remembering the German Past in the Czech Lands
The objective of this paper is to document the ongoing shift from communicative to cultural memory of war and post-war events in the Czech Republic by using an example of a local struggle about a memorial for German inhabitants of a Czech town killed in June 1945. Thanks to an anthropological and social geographical approach based on interviews, family memory research, observations, and analysis of archive materials, it is possible to reconstruct…
Religious-secular as non-competitive
The presented text builds upon 4 years of applied research intended to support the transformation of a Czech Catholic diocese into a more participative organisation, internally and externally. This process allowed us to see different positions in the relationship between the religious and the secular within the highly secularised Czech Republic. In some places, the religious and the secular appeared incompatible. Elsewhere they influenced each ot…
La révolution de velours » dans les sciences sociales tchèques
“The Velvet Revolution” in the Czech Social Sciences D rawing on biographical interviews with the protagonists of qualitative social science research in the Czech Republic, this article retraces the evolution of the qualitative approach before and after 1989 and presents in greater detail six major research projects conducted in the post-communist era. It takes a special interest in how the actors view their own work and offers a comparison of th…
La Question des Allemands Sudètes au Théâtre
Face a la polarisation du discours politique et scientifique sur l’expulsion des Allemands sudetes, l’article explore l’aptitude du theâtre a procurer les moyens d’un discours alternatif. Considerant le theâtre en tant que pratique sociale, l’auteur analyse un corpus de pieces creees entre 1990 et 2013, en particulier la facon dont elles representent l’evenement, la participation qu’elles suscitent de la part du public et la transformation social…
La Question des Allemands Sudètes au Théâtre
Face à la polarisation du discours politique et scientifique sur l’expulsion des Allemands sudètes, l’article explore l’aptitude du théâtre à procurer les moyens d’un discours alternatif. Considérant le théâtre en tant que pratique sociale, l’auteur analyse un corpus de pièces créées entre 1990 et 2013, en particulier la façon dont elles représentent l’événement, la participation qu’elles suscitent de la part du public et la transformation social…
Remembering the German Past in the Czech Lands
The objective of this paper is to document the ongoing shift from communicative to cultural memory of war and post-war events in the Czech Republic by using an example of a local struggle about a memorial for German inhabitants of a Czech town killed in June 1945. Thanks to an anthropological and social geographical approach based on interviews, family memory research, observations, and analysis of archive materials, it is possible to reconstruct…
Kees de Groot, The Liquidation of the Church
The book Liquidation of the Church has seemingly provocative name but also the long history of deep interest in church-society relations. The author, graduated sociologist and practical theologian, worked many years on different case studies in the Netherlands which he effectively brought in one original theoretical frame. It is mirrored in its structure: After introducing the concept of the liquidation of the church, Kees de Groot displays first…
Monastère et société
In 1990 the Cistercian monastery of Vyšší Brod in Czech Republic again welcomed monks within its walls after four decades of absence during the communist regime. The reestablishment of monastic life brought new negotiations about the position of the monastery in society. The Cistercian community seeks to revive the place as the place of Cistercian spirituality. Exploring the different layers of memory related to the monastery, we analyse the hete…
Translating secular-religious divide
The aim of this paper is to inquire into the Christian distinctiveness of church schools as an interactively achieved pragmatic resource. The ethnomethodological perspective incorporated in this research offers an actor- and meaning-focused take on the question of what makes Christian schools different from public schools. We connect this issue to the secular-religious divide debate and argue that church schools in Czechia and Slovakia function a…
Church Life Live
The unprecedented halt of social gatherings imposed by the COVID -19 pandemic that began in the spring of 2020 highlighted the centrality of ritual participation in the Christian sense of belonging. Offering members of religious communities opportunities and instruments for sustaining their religiosity became a challenge. This time of crisis, adaptation and improvisation thus also shook what it meant to belong to a community of believers. Based o…
Religious-secular as non-competitive
The presented text builds upon 4 years of applied research intended to support the transformation of a Czech Catholic diocese into a more participative organisation, internally and externally. This process allowed us to see different positions in the relationship between the religious and the secular within the highly secularised Czech Republic. In some places, the religious and the secular appeared incompatible. Elsewhere they influenced each ot…
Stability as a tool of transformation
This article examines how the neo-monastic community Servant Partners reinterprets the Benedictine value of stability within the volatile socio-economic landscape of Silicon Valley. Drawing on six months of ethnographic fieldwork in San José, California, it situates the community’s long-term, place-based commitments within broader processes of evangelical re-urbanisation and the anthropology of values. I show how Servant Partners’ practice of ‘re…
Political science (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Czech (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Religious Tourism and Spaces (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works)