Publication details
Představa posmrtného života u osob bez náboženského vyznání
| Title in English | The Idea of Afterlife in Participants without Religious Declaration |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2008 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Sacra |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Philosophy and religion |
| Keywords | Afterlife; Atheism; Believing without belonging; Privatization of religion; Qualitative research |
| Description | The aim of this study is to explore afterlife conceptions of people, who do not declare themselves as believers. They do not belong to any church, instead they have their own individual conception of afterlife or transcendent, supporting the subjectivization thesis. The research took place in Pilsen and respondents were four females and one male, all of them older than forty. Interviews were semistructured and the main attention was focussed on their own imaginations of afterlife. The results of this study are – every respondent believes in a sort of energy, which can influence her/his life. Conceptions of afterlife are different, mainly taking form of another incarnation. Two participants described they will be something like ghosts, the other two will be humans again and one had no conception of individual soul. |