Biography
Zora Hesová is assistant professor at the Department for Political Science at Faculty of Arts, Charles University, in Prague, and a research fellow at the Institute for Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences. She works modern Islam in Europe, and, more generally, on religion and ideological conficts in contemporary politics, with a particular focus on Central and South-Eastern Europe. She led research projects on culture wars in Central Europe and on the consequences of societal polarisation. She has published and co-edited books on the philosophy of Abu Hamid al-Ghazali and of Abdolkarim Soroush, as well as “Central European Culture Wars: Beyond Post-Communism and Populism” (with P.Barša and O. Slačálek) and Imagining Regions: Hegemony and Emancipation in Europe and Asia” (with O. Lomová) and research articles on contemporary Islam in Bosnia, Central European political conflicts and illiberalism.
Research interests:
- contemporary Islam
- culture wars
- religion and politics
- political ideologies
- illiberalism
- South-Eastern Europe, Central Europe