PhDr. Andrea Beláňová, Ph.D.

Department:

Economic Sociology

Position:

post-doc

E-mail: Andrea.Belanova@soc.cas.cz

ORCID:

0000-0002-1036-4604

Curriculum vitae

Education:

2011 – 2017 Doctorate (“Shared Biographies of Arranged Marriages in the Unification Church“)

Department for Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University

2009 – 2011 Master’s Degree (“Apostasy from Unification Church from the Point of View of Individual Religiosity”)

Department for Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University

2006 – 2009 Bachelor’s Degree (“Society for the Study of Sects and New Religious Movements: Analysis of its Discourse.”)

Department for Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University

Field of specialisation:

since 2018 Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences

post-doctoral project: “The Role of Churches and Importance of Religiosity in the Re-Entry Care”

- religiosity in the current society, new religious movements, de/conversion, religion and spirituality in the Czech Republic, chaplaincy

Teaching activities:

since 2017 Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education, Charles University

Basics of Sociology I, II

supervision of master thesis and final essays

since 2016 Masaryk University

Religion and Violence (whole-university course)

2015 – 2016 Department of Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University

Family in the Age of Insecurity

2013 – 2014 Department of Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University

Unification Church

Foreign scholarships, fellowships or other academic study abroad:

2012 – 2013 University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA

Fulbright Program (Visiting Researcher)

2007 – 2008 Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Erasmus Program

Biographic information:

Andrea Beláňová earned Ph.D. in religious studies at the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno. Currently she works as a lecturer at the Faculty of Education, Charles University, and as a post-doc at the Institute of Sociology of Czech Academy of Sciences. She focuses on the intersection of religious and secular sphere and spent one year as Fulbright visiting researcher at University of Nevada in Reno.