Assoc. Prof. Pavol Bargár, M.St., Ph.D. ****************************************************************************************** * ****************************************************************************************** Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies bargar(zavinac)etf.cuni.cz [ MAIL "bargar(zavinac)etf.cuni.cz"] 221 988 420 4. floor, door no. 426 ORCID: 0000-0002-5503-6831 [ URL "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5503-6831"] ResearchID: K-1157-2017 [ URL "https://publons.com/researcher/1361911/ pavol-bargar/"] Scopus Author ID: 56084796000 [ URL "https://www.scopus.com/authid/ detail.uri?authorId=56084796000"] Researchgate [ URL "https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Pavol-Bargar"] Academia.edu [ URL "https://cuni.academia.edu/PavolBargár"] WhoIs [ URL "http://is.cuni.cz/webapps/id/1854025465373229/"] Profile in SIS [ URL "https://is.cuni.cz/studium/predmety/index.php? do=ucit&kod=29804"] specialisation: relation of theology and culture, intercultural theology, theological anthropology, misiology, interfaith relations ****************************************************************************************** * Education and qualification ****************************************************************************************** • 2024: habilitation • 2009–2011: St Edmund’s College, The University of Cambridge (M.St. in Jewish-Christian r • 2005–2009: Protestant Theological Faculty, Charles University, Prague (Ph.D., thesis: “M People”) • 2000–2005: Evangelical Lutheran Theological Faculty, Comenius University, Bratislava (Ma [Mgr.] in Evangelical Lutheran Theology) ****************************************************************************************** * Long-term study and research stays abroad ****************************************************************************************** • 2013: Global Ecumenical Theological Institute (GETI) of the World Council of Churches, S South Korea (student participant) • 2013: Summer Tutorial Program, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL (research program) • 2007–2008: Karls Universität, Heidelberg (2 semesters; Erasmus) ****************************************************************************************** * Grants and projects ****************************************************************************************** • Research grant project "The Misuse of Religion in Post-Communist Countries and Building Resilience" (2022-2025); team member (projekt leader: Prof. PhDr. Tomáš Halík, Th.D.) • Research project supported by the John Templeton Foundation no. 61385 “Faith and Beliefs ‘Nonbelievers’” (2019–2024); core team member, project manager (project leader: Prof. To • Research project, Charles University Research Center program no. 204052 “Theological Ant Ecumenical Perspective” (2018–2023); team member (project leader: Prof. Ivana Noble) • Research project supported by the Czech Science Foundation no. 17-00987S “Transformation Implications for Contemporary Ecumenical Theology” (2017–2019); team member (project lea Širka) • Research project supported by the John Templeton Foundation no. 58599 “The Future of Rel from Central Eastern European Perspective“ (2017); core team member, Slovak research tea (project leader: Prof. Tomáš Halík) • Research project supported by the Czech Science Foundation no. P401/14-22950P “Myth as a Expression of Narrative Theology” (2014–2016); project leader ****************************************************************************************** * Membership in professional societies ****************************************************************************************** • International Association for Mission Studies • Central and Eastern European Association for Mission Studies ****************************************************************************************** * Membership in journal editorial boards ****************************************************************************************** • Acta Missiologiae • Acta Missiologica • Dingir • Exchange • Křesťanská revue • Revue Společnosti křesťanů a Židů ****************************************************************************************** * Service in professional societies and organizations ****************************************************************************************** • Central and Eastern European Association for Mission Studies, vice-president • International Council of Christians and Jews, second vice-president (2017–2021), executi (2014–2017, 2021–2024) • Společnost křesťanů a Židů, executive board member ****************************************************************************************** * Other activities ****************************************************************************************** • 2018–: Ph.D. program supervisor, Oxford Centre for Mission Studies (accredited by Middle • 2017: Global Ecumenical Theological Institute – Europe (GETI´17), organization committee member • 2011–2013: M.Th. in Missiology, tutor in a MA program in theology (accredited by the Uni Africa) • Peer-reviewer for various journals and publishers • Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren, lay preacher ****************************************************************************************** * Select Bibliography ****************************************************************************************** Publishing and other professional activities registered in databaze OBD [ URL "https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl/_TS_/1633974464? __p_ob=&_fltrok=ok&_repok=&__cntext__=&xls_num=&fname=obd_public&_druh_filtru=0&p_pohled_i %C3%A1r&_a_jmeno=pavol&_autor_org_podriz=&lov_value__autor_org_podriz=--+nevybr%C3%A1no+-- &_a_cis=&lov_value__a_cis=--+nevybr%C3%A1no+--&f_osoba_identif=&f_g_gra=&_v_spe=&vrdropinp +nevybr%C3%A1no+--&_v_rok=&_v_naz=&f_v_tit=&vrdropinput3=--+nevybr%C3%A1no+-- &_v_riv_cislo_s=&filtr=Odeslat&__idf=98A638BC2AB811EC9230BB74A1EE4398"] . Full bibliography here [ URL "https://docs.google.com/document/d/14nBYi99RgQ_wl5QVgRj89dfh usp=sharing&ouid=108595767365069286025&rtpof=true&sd=true"] . Books: • Pavol Bargár. Embodied Existence: Our Common Life in God. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 202 ISBN: 978-1-6667-4408-8. • Pavol Bargár. Narrative, Myth, Transformation: Reflecting Theologically on Contemporary Jihlava: Mlýn, 2016. Pp. 196. ISBN 9-788086-498607 Edited volumes: • Pavol Bargár, ed. The Bible, Christianity, and Culture: Essays in Honor of Professor Pet Prague: Karolinum Press, 2023. Pp. 375. ISBN: 978-80-246-5407-2. • Zuzana Jurechová and Pavol Bargár, eds. Crisis Situations in the Czecho-Slovak Context a Prague: CECMS 2011, ISBN 978-80-903986-5-8. • Zuzana Jurechová a Pavol Bargár, eds. Krizové situace v česko-slovenském kontextu po roc SCMS 2011, ISBN 978-80-903986-4-1. Peer-reviewed articles and chapters: • “Nigerian Initiated Pentecostal/Charismatic Churches in the Czech Republic: Active Missi Cultural Ghetto?,” Exchange – Journal of Contemporary Christianities in Context 43, no. Reprint: in Martha Frederiks and Dorottya Nagy (eds.), Religion, Migration, and Identity and Theological Explorations (Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill, 2016), 79–96. • “Mission in New Contexts: Post-Communist Europe in Dialogue with Together towards Life,” Review 66, no. 1 (March 2014): 72–81. • “Niebuhr’s Typology Reconsidered: Reading Christ and Culture through the Lenses of the P Communio Viatorum 56, no. 3 (2014): 294–316. • “‘Blessed Are You Who Are Poor:’ The Poor in Together towards Life, The Cape Town Commit Evangelii Gaudium,” International Review of Mission 104, no. 2 (November 2015): 242–254. • “Mission in the Czech Republic: An Ecumenical Perspective,” In Corneliu Constantineanu, V. Măcelaru, Anne-Marie Kool, and Mihai Himcinschi (eds.), Mission in Central and Easter Realities, Perspectives, Trends (Oxford: Regnum Books International, 2016), 270–291. • “The Current Discourse on Refugees in Europe in Light of the Sacred: A Czech Case. A Cul Sociological Approach in Dialogue with a Missiological Perspective,” Acta Missiologiae 5 • “Pondering ‘The Mission of the Orthodox Church in Today’s World:’ A Protestant Missiolog Reflection,” International Review of Mission 106, no. 2 (December 2017): 389–399. • “‘Break On Through To The Other Side:’ The Symbols of Creation and Resurrection/Salvatio Morrison. Theological Explorations,” Testimonia Theologica 11, no. 2 (2017): 136–148. • “Narrativity as a Locus Hermeneuticus for Ecumenical Theology: Culture, Koinonia and Tra Transformation 35, no. 1 (2018): 30–43. • “David Bowie’s and David Ford’s Ideas on Salvation,” Communio Viatorum 59, no. 3 (2017): • “Church, Society, and Earth in The Church and Together towards Life: A Reflection from a Context,” The Ecumenical Review 70, no. 3 (2018): 443–454. • “Ekonomika života: Ekumenický koncept zo stredourópskej perspektívy,” Teologická reflexe (2018): 189–202. • “The Reformation from the Perspective of World Christianity,” AUC Theologica 8, no. 2 (2 • “‘I Felt It… It Was Perfect:’ Apollo, Dionysus, Christ, and Black Swan,” Communio Viator (2018): 313–333. • “The Role of the Imagination in Theology,” In Poetry and Theology, ed. Maroš Nicák (Jihl 2018), 213–229. • “Mission amidst Ideologies: Ideology and Hegemony in The Cape Town Commitment, Together Life, Evangelii Gaudium, and Mission of the Orthodox Church in Today’s World,” Exchange Contemporary Christianities in Context 48, no. 2 (2019): 85–104. • “Destructive Pursuits of Holiness in Darren Aronofsky’s Mother!,” Acta Missiologica 13, 70–76. • “Christian Identity in a Pluralistic Society: Culture, Power, Witness,” In Identitäre Ve Identitätsverhandlungen zwischen Emanzipation und Herrschaft, ed. Judith Gruber, Sebasti Silber, and Christian Tauchner, Concordia Reihe Monographien – Band 73 (Aachen: Verlag M 265–274. • “Learning about Spirituality Together with ‘Seekers:’ Reading Together towards Life in t Postsecular Context,” International Review of Mission 108, no. 2 (2019): 326–336. • “Človek na ceste za Pravdou: teologická antropológia Milana Balabána,” Teologická reflex (2019): 58–72. • “‘Together Towards a Banquet:’ The Feast as Promise and Resistance in Together towards L Contemporary Theological Discourse,” International Review of Mission 109, no. 1 (May 202 • “Relating to Others: The Coronavirus, the Imagined Body, and Enfleshment,” Communio Viat (2020): 46–66. • “The Modern, the Postmodern, and… the Metamodern? Reflections on a Transforming Sensibil Perspective of Theological Anthropology,” Transformation 38, no. 1 (2021): 3–15. • (together with Pavel Hošek) “Lidé žijící v příbězích,” In Kdo je člověk? Teologická antr ekumenicky, ed. Ivana Noble a Zdenko Širka (Praha: Karolinum, 2021), 71–88. • “The Phenomenon of ‘F-Word Pseudoreligion’ as a Challenge in Mission in Central and East Acta Missiologiae 9 (2021): 37–50. • “‘Imagine!’: Culture, Theology, and the Power of Imagination,” Communio Viatorum 63, no. 77. • “Toward Comm/unity amid Brokenness: Christian Mission as (a Pursuit of) Relational Anthr International Review of Mission 110, no. 2 (Nov 2021): 231–45. • “Pursuing Shalom in the City: A Theological Reflection on the Beautiful and the Good in Acta Missiologica 16, no. 1 (May 2022): 236–49. • “Christian Mission and Communism: A Protestant Perspective from Former Czechoslovakia.” Handbook of Mission Studies, ed. Kirsteen Kim, Knud J?rgensen, and Alison Fitchett-Clime Oxford University Press, 2022), 365–82. • “And Beauty Will Make You Free: On the Transformative Power of Beauty.” AUC Theologica 1 41–56. • “Christianity, Culture, and Transformation: A Theological Reflection.” In The Bible, Chr Culture: Essays in Honor of Professor Petr Pokorný, ed. Pavol Bargár (Prague: Karolinum 303–319.