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Milan Fujda, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Religious Studies within the Faculty of Arts at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. His office is located in building J/J.513 at Jaselská 201/18, 602 00 Brno, with correspondence address at Arna Nováka 1/1, 602 00 Brno.
Dr. Fujda specializes in the ethnographic study of religious everyday life, with particular expertise in pilgrimage, coping with illness and suffering, healing practices, fortune telling, magic, and drug use within religious contexts. His research also examines the current religious situation in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, focusing on media mediation of religious experiences, movements, and identities. A significant portion of his work analyzes the acculturation of Indian symbolic sources in Europe and explores controversies about tradition in India, particularly regarding social hierarchies (casteism and untouchability), gender, sexuality, collective identities, and environmentalism.
Dr. Fujda employs qualitative research methods including ethnographic fieldwork and online ethnography in his investigations. His teaching portfolio includes courses on engaged religious studies, discourse analysis (particularly Foucault's approach), religion and the body, reading Sanskrit religious texts, and qualitative methods of religious research.
For student supervision, Dr. Fujda accepts thesis projects focusing on three main areas: religious everyday life using ethnographic methods; analysis of contemporary religious situations in Czech Republic/Slovakia using qualitative methods; and studies of tradition controversies in India examining social relations, identities, and environmentalism. His consultation hours are held on Tuesdays from 10:00-11:40 in room J.513, with additional appointments available by email.
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