Milan Fujda
An assistant professor at the Department for the Study of Religions, Masaryk University, Brno. His main fields of study in the past were acculturation of Indian practices as the problem of modernization and detraditionalized forms of religiosity in the Czech society, and the questions of theoretical (ir)relevance of fundamental categories in the Study of Religions. As a result of his research in this area he has been turning in recent years attention towards methodology of qualitative social research and found inspiration in Ethnomethodology and Actor-Network-Theory. It lead him to far reaching reformulation of the problems in the sociological study of religion and drew him to the unexpected space where sociological science studies and studies of religion may intersect. Continually it moved him to an interest in the sociology of health and illness as an area where he can learn about an interplay of activities commonly called "religious" with numerous other quite ordinary activities in pragmatic handling of important problems of daily life. This turn was mediated by his 6-month ethnographic fieldwork (and following data analysis) within the contemporary dance improvisation project. From the dancers he learned much about pragmatism and improvisation face to face unexpected troubles, and about practical significance of seemingly abstract and speculative theoretical concepts such as the Chinese concept of the energy qi. He has learned how such thing can be practically applied to utilise various kinds and levels of tension and relaxation within the dancing body. This way he also learned about embodiment and practical intelligence of the body.
Results of this learning (in a form of a journal article and a book chapter on agency in instructed action in a book planned by Sage Publications) are at present finalised for submission, or submitted for publication. The same applies to his shifts into position on the edges of the sociology of religion, of science and technology and of health and illness, which is reflected in a submitted study analysing why "religion" is serious obstacle to the symmetrically conducted study of religion, and how this study can be practised in compliance with the principle of symmetry.
He is an author of the books Akulturace hinduismu a formování moderní religiozity: K sociálním dějinám českého okultismu 1891-1941 [Acculturation of Hinduism and Forming of Modern Religiosity: Social History of the Czech Occultism 1891–1941] and Oddaní Kršny. Hnutí Haré Kršna v pohledu sociálních věd [The Krishna Bhaktas. Hare Krishna Movement in the Perspective of Social Sciences; together with Dušan Lužný]. He took part in several research projects including the EP6 REVACERN (Religion and Values: Central European Research Network). He has organised in the end of 2012 together with his students and international conference "Towards a Symmetrical Approach: The Study of Religions after Postmodern and Postcolonial Criticism" at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
Results of this learning (in a form of a journal article and a book chapter on agency in instructed action in a book planned by Sage Publications) are at present finalised for submission, or submitted for publication. The same applies to his shifts into position on the edges of the sociology of religion, of science and technology and of health and illness, which is reflected in a submitted study analysing why "religion" is serious obstacle to the symmetrically conducted study of religion, and how this study can be practised in compliance with the principle of symmetry.
He is an author of the books Akulturace hinduismu a formování moderní religiozity: K sociálním dějinám českého okultismu 1891-1941 [Acculturation of Hinduism and Forming of Modern Religiosity: Social History of the Czech Occultism 1891–1941] and Oddaní Kršny. Hnutí Haré Kršna v pohledu sociálních věd [The Krishna Bhaktas. Hare Krishna Movement in the Perspective of Social Sciences; together with Dušan Lužný]. He took part in several research projects including the EP6 REVACERN (Religion and Values: Central European Research Network). He has organised in the end of 2012 together with his students and international conference "Towards a Symmetrical Approach: The Study of Religions after Postmodern and Postcolonial Criticism" at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
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