Pavel Horák
Biographic Data
| ID | 5434324 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pavel Horák |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pavel |
| FAMILY NAME | Horák |
| SIGNATURE | HORÁK P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Masaryk University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3789-977X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Framework for Comprehensive Evaluation of Homelessness Policies: An analytical tool to identify and compare the nature and effectiveness of current homelessness policies with the potential to desi…
Occult Use of Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism: Slavic and German Occultism in Comparison
Occultism significantly shaped European society, culture, and politics during the fin de siècle and interwar periods. While scholarship has extensively examined Western European and global occult movements, Eastern Europe—particularly Slavic countries—has only recently gained attention. This article compares Czech and Austrian occultism to analyze how race, ethnicity, and nationalism were integrated into occult discourses. It argues that occultis…
Organizational Resilience of Public Sector Organizations Responding to the Covid-19 Pandemic in Czechia and Key Influencing Factors: Use of the Nograšek and Vintar Model
This manuscript maps the modes of dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic by two public organizations in the Czech Republic from its beginning to the present day to identify the final form of their organizational resilience and key factors that influenced it. The Nograšek and Vintar organizational model, which relies on the crucial role of ICT and its dependence on people, processes, structure, and culture, was utilized to achieve this objective. Data…
Collaboration, Participation, and Innovation: Influencing Factors of Co-Creation in a Czech Municipality
Co-creation is a concept that offers a broad perspective on the involvement of external actors in public administration. With the intent of contributing to the clarification of certain aspects of this concept, this paper aims to find out which new influencing factors of the implementation of co-creation can be identified in the selected departments of a Czech municipal public administration organization. Through the analysis of qualitative interv…
Disparities in the organisation of national healthcare systems for treatment of patients with psoriatic arthritis and axial spondyloarthritis across Europe
BACKGROUND: Studies on national policies for biologics are warranted. OBJECTIVES: To map and compare national healthcare set-ups for prescription, start, switch, tapering, and discontinuation of biologic/targeted synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) in patients with psoriatic arthritis and axial spondyloarthritis across Europe, and assess the healthcare set-ups in relation to countries' socio-economic status. METHODS: An elect…
Universalia, the Society of Czechoslovak Hermeticists: Between Occult Universalism and Nationalism
The article discusses the reception of occultism in Central Europe through a case study of the most sophisticated Czech occult society, Universalia: The Society of Czechoslovak Hermeticist. Established in the Czechoslovak Republic of the 1920s, dissolved by the Nazi regime in 1941, and subsequently revived in the 1990s, Universalia significantly shaped the Czech occult milieu through publishing and lecturing activities. The article focuses primar…
“If the Base Fundamentals Are Too Much for You...”
This article deals with the possible existence of doctrines in modern Paganism. Generally, Pagan studies scholars widely consider modern Paganism a religion without doctrines. Furthermore, Margot Adler, one of the early researchers of modern Paganism, established a narrative that practice is more important than beliefs in modern Paganism. However, based on ethnographic research conducted among modern European Pagans between 2014 and 2017, along w…
Discovering Slavic Mythology between East and West: Folklore Research and the Pagan Past in the Service of Nation-Building
This article analyses how pagan Slavic religion and mythology were assembled in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, using the example of folklore research in the Czech lands. It demonstrates how imaginings of the original nature of Slavic religion and mythology, and speculations about the Indo-European past, contributed to Czech nation-building. Reviewing the shift from amateur folklore research to the establishment of institutionalized…
Magic between Europe and India: On Mantras, Coercion of Gods, and the Limits of Current Debates
Several scholars have criticized the efforts to explain Indian mantras as spells, but much is left to clarification. Why do submission-versus-coercion characterizations keep reoccurring, albeit disputed? Why does the difference between this-worldly and other-worldly goals also keep its important role in discussions about mantras? Furthermore, how are these ideas tied to analyses of the beliefs of practitioners? We identify three main positions co…
Who Is, and Who Is Not a Pagan? Struggles in Defining Contemporary Paganism: A Response to Ethan Doyle White
The article deals with Pagan studies’ attempts to define contemporary Paganism and claims that definition-building is not a fruitful way of getting to a better understanding of the phenomenon. The article (i) introduces the ways that Pagan studies have tacked the issue of defining contemporary Paganism, (ii) providing particular examples, and (iii) scrutinizing them with a help of classificatory and referential optics. Some scholars in the field …
The Image of Paganism in the British Romanticism
This article tries to answer the question of how the concept of Paganism was conceived and shaped by the Romantic thinkers, and whether it has influenced our current understanding of both antique Paganism and contemporary Paganism; if yes, how? My aim is to show this with the example of the Romantic period in the Great Britain especially between 1750–1850. I omit the commonplace account on the poets and other artists and their works in this paper…
Childcare policy in the Czech Republic and Norway: Two countries, two paths with many possibilities
The objective of this paper is to analyse and compare the design and governance of the contemporary childcare policy in the Czech Republic and Norway in relation to the situation of households with dependent children under school age. Following this, we review certain provisions of the childcare policies of the two countries, whose systems possessed certain similarities at the beginning of the 1990s, although they represent distinct types of welf…
The Image of Paganism in the Age of Reason: From Idolatry towards a Secular Concept of Polytheism
This article argues that the concept of “paganism,” though originally theological in nature, came to be used in the Enlightenment and its secular thought as a term for non-Abrahamic religions. Discussions on paganism were conducted in an environment where concerns about religious plurality had become central. As such, these discussions, and their subject—paganism, also served as a means to find solutions for concerns about religious plurality. Th…
Emergence of new modes of governance in activation policies: Czech experience
Purpose The paper deals with the question to what extent implementation conditions influence the profile of activation policies in the Czech Republic. In this way, it helps to clarify more general questions: how are broader objectives of these policies specified at the bottom level of implementation and why activation policies differ among countries, although guided by similar general objectives and principles. Design/methodology/approach The fin…
Emergence of new modes of governance in activation policies: Czech experience
Purpose The paper deals with the question to what extent implementation conditions influence the profile of activation policies in the Czech Republic. In this way, it helps to clarify more general questions: how are broader objectives of these policies specified at the bottom level of implementation and why activation policies differ among countries, although guided by similar general objectives and principles. Design/methodology/approach The fin…
The Image of Paganism in the Age of Reason: From Idolatry towards a Secular Concept of Polytheism
This article argues that the concept of “paganism,” though originally theological in nature, came to be used in the Enlightenment and its secular thought as a term for non-Abrahamic religions. Discussions on paganism were conducted in an environment where concerns about religious plurality had become central. As such, these discussions, and their subject—paganism, also served as a means to find solutions for concerns about religious plurality. Th…
Emergence of new modes of governance in activation policies: Czech experience
Purpose The paper deals with the question to what extent implementation conditions influence the profile of activation policies in the Czech Republic. In this way, it helps to clarify more general questions: how are broader objectives of these policies specified at the bottom level of implementation and why activation policies differ among countries, although guided by similar general objectives and principles. Design/methodology/approach The fin…
The Image of Paganism in the Age of Reason: From Idolatry towards a Secular Concept of Polytheism
This article argues that the concept of “paganism,” though originally theological in nature, came to be used in the Enlightenment and its secular thought as a term for non-Abrahamic religions. Discussions on paganism were conducted in an environment where concerns about religious plurality had become central. As such, these discussions, and their subject—paganism, also served as a means to find solutions for concerns about religious plurality. Th…
Childcare policy in the Czech Republic and Norway: Two countries, two paths with many possibilities
The objective of this paper is to analyse and compare the design and governance of the contemporary childcare policy in the Czech Republic and Norway in relation to the situation of households with dependent children under school age. Following this, we review certain provisions of the childcare policies of the two countries, whose systems possessed certain similarities at the beginning of the 1990s, although they represent distinct types of welf…
The Image of Paganism in the British Romanticism
This article tries to answer the question of how the concept of Paganism was conceived and shaped by the Romantic thinkers, and whether it has influenced our current understanding of both antique Paganism and contemporary Paganism; if yes, how? My aim is to show this with the example of the Romantic period in the Great Britain especially between 1750–1850. I omit the commonplace account on the poets and other artists and their works in this paper…
Magic between Europe and India: On Mantras, Coercion of Gods, and the Limits of Current Debates
Several scholars have criticized the efforts to explain Indian mantras as spells, but much is left to clarification. Why do submission-versus-coercion characterizations keep reoccurring, albeit disputed? Why does the difference between this-worldly and other-worldly goals also keep its important role in discussions about mantras? Furthermore, how are these ideas tied to analyses of the beliefs of practitioners? We identify three main positions co…
Who Is, and Who Is Not a Pagan? Struggles in Defining Contemporary Paganism: A Response to Ethan Doyle White
The article deals with Pagan studies’ attempts to define contemporary Paganism and claims that definition-building is not a fruitful way of getting to a better understanding of the phenomenon. The article (i) introduces the ways that Pagan studies have tacked the issue of defining contemporary Paganism, (ii) providing particular examples, and (iii) scrutinizing them with a help of classificatory and referential optics. Some scholars in the field …
“If the Base Fundamentals Are Too Much for You...”
This article deals with the possible existence of doctrines in modern Paganism. Generally, Pagan studies scholars widely consider modern Paganism a religion without doctrines. Furthermore, Margot Adler, one of the early researchers of modern Paganism, established a narrative that practice is more important than beliefs in modern Paganism. However, based on ethnographic research conducted among modern European Pagans between 2014 and 2017, along w…
Discovering Slavic Mythology between East and West: Folklore Research and the Pagan Past in the Service of Nation-Building
This article analyses how pagan Slavic religion and mythology were assembled in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, using the example of folklore research in the Czech lands. It demonstrates how imaginings of the original nature of Slavic religion and mythology, and speculations about the Indo-European past, contributed to Czech nation-building. Reviewing the shift from amateur folklore research to the establishment of institutionalized…
Universalia, the Society of Czechoslovak Hermeticists: Between Occult Universalism and Nationalism
The article discusses the reception of occultism in Central Europe through a case study of the most sophisticated Czech occult society, Universalia: The Society of Czechoslovak Hermeticist. Established in the Czechoslovak Republic of the 1920s, dissolved by the Nazi regime in 1941, and subsequently revived in the 1990s, Universalia significantly shaped the Czech occult milieu through publishing and lecturing activities. The article focuses primar…
Occult Use of Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism: Slavic and German Occultism in Comparison
Occultism significantly shaped European society, culture, and politics during the fin de siècle and interwar periods. While scholarship has extensively examined Western European and global occult movements, Eastern Europe—particularly Slavic countries—has only recently gained attention. This article compares Czech and Austrian occultism to analyze how race, ethnicity, and nationalism were integrated into occult discourses. It argues that occultis…
Organizational Resilience of Public Sector Organizations Responding to the Covid-19 Pandemic in Czechia and Key Influencing Factors: Use of the Nograšek and Vintar Model
This manuscript maps the modes of dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic by two public organizations in the Czech Republic from its beginning to the present day to identify the final form of their organizational resilience and key factors that influenced it. The Nograšek and Vintar organizational model, which relies on the crucial role of ICT and its dependence on people, processes, structure, and culture, was utilized to achieve this objective. Data…
Collaboration, Participation, and Innovation: Influencing Factors of Co-Creation in a Czech Municipality
Co-creation is a concept that offers a broad perspective on the involvement of external actors in public administration. With the intent of contributing to the clarification of certain aspects of this concept, this paper aims to find out which new influencing factors of the implementation of co-creation can be identified in the selected departments of a Czech municipal public administration organization. Through the analysis of qualitative interv…
Disparities in the organisation of national healthcare systems for treatment of patients with psoriatic arthritis and axial spondyloarthritis across Europe
BACKGROUND: Studies on national policies for biologics are warranted. OBJECTIVES: To map and compare national healthcare set-ups for prescription, start, switch, tapering, and discontinuation of biologic/targeted synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) in patients with psoriatic arthritis and axial spondyloarthritis across Europe, and assess the healthcare set-ups in relation to countries' socio-economic status. METHODS: An elect…
The Framework for Comprehensive Evaluation of Homelessness Policies: An analytical tool to identify and compare the nature and effectiveness of current homelessness policies with the potential to desi…
Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Czech (5 works) · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (5 works) · Christianity (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Paganism (4 works)