#Jacek Skup - Instytut Porównawczych Studiów Cywilizacji

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Dr Jacek Skup

Dr Jacek Skup

e-mail: jacek.skup@uj.edu.pl
www: https://jagiellonian.academia.edu/JacekSkup
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3933-1339

Assistant lecturer at the Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisation. Holds an MA in Religious Studies. In 2024 obtained his PhD in Cultural and Religious Studies based on the dissertation „Religion, nationalism and political myth in the context of separatism in India and Pakistan”.

Academic interests

  • nationalisms in South Asia,
  • Islam in South Asia,
  • separatist movements,
  • relations between religion and politics in contemporary South Asia,
  • the problem of political myth.

Selected publications

  • 2022, Polityka wykluczenia. Status prawny zwolenników ruchu ahmadijja w Pakistanie [The politics of Exclusion. Legal status of Ahmadiyya adherents in Pakistan] In: Relacje państwo-wspólnoty religijne we współczesnym świecie. Wybrane zagadnienia [State-Religious Communities Relations in Contemporary Word. Selected Problems], eds. M. Marczewska-Rytko, D. Maj, Warszawa, pp. 233-240.
  • 2021, "Give me Blood and I Promise You Freedom!" The Problem of Freedom in the Political Thought of Subhas Chandra Bose, In: Crossroads of Liberty. Asian, African and European Literature Towards Freedom and Oppression, eds. A. Bednarczyk, M. Kubarek, M. Lewicka, M. Szatkowski , Warszawa, pp. 189-197.
  • 2019, Problem separatyzmu we współczesnym Pakistanie  [The Problem of Separatism in Contemporary Pakistan] In: Ruchy separatystyczne {Separatist Movements], eds. M. Marczewska-Rytko, M. Pomarański, Lublin, pp. 263-275.
  • 2019, Wielka dusza. Mahatma Gandhi jako protagonista mitu politycznego [Great Soul. Mahatma Gandhi as a Protagonist of Political Myth], In: Mit polityczny. Prace KNHD UJ 2019 [Political Myth. Works of KNHD UJ 2019], eds. A. Czarnecka, P. Eckhardt, K. Zyzik, Kraków, pp. 117-131.