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A Czech Religious studies scholar and Protestant theologian Pavel Hošek has been becoming more and more focused on implicit religious phenomena and their presence in literature and popular culture in the last few years. After years of analyzing C. S. Lewis’ and J. R. R. Tolkien’s texts and their religious implications, Hošek suddenly turned his attention to Czech young adult literature and to Jaroslav Foglar, its most celebrated author. The result of this new interest is a little book called Evangelium podle Jaroslava Foglara (“Gospel According to Jaroslav Foglar”). While Jaroslav Foglar is not widely known outside of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, he is literally the most famous and most influential Czech author of young adult literature. As a young man, Foglar got acquainted with the Scouts movement (also the Wandervogel movement and the Czech organization Junák, similar to the Scouts). Although he was already too mature to engage in the movement in the role of a child, he became active as a leader and literally spent his entire life dedicating himself to educating boys. Even though he was greatly loved and respected both as a Scouts leader and a journalist working for children’s magazines (also as a writer of a long comic book series, on which he cooperated with two illustrators, Jan Fischer and Marko Čermák), his by far most important contribution to the Czech culture lay in his novels. Mostly intended for boys of the age around thirteen, the books speak not only about nature and adventure, but also noble friendship, cultivation of character, perseverance and high moral values that every boy should strive to attain. Many of his critics pointed out that Foglar’s books are filled with outright moralizing. Nevertheless, the popularity of the novels among children clearly shows that Foglar was uniquely gifted not only to create a magical atmosphere of dark, old cities filled with mystery and breathtakingly beautiful wild landscape, but also to present morality and nobleness of character to children in such a way that not only they devoured his books, but actively tried to bring what they read to life. This is precisely Pavel Hošek’s launching point. The imaginative mystique and moral dimension of the books create a world in itself, closely intertwined with actual practices of the Scouts and Junáks; literally thousands of boys were deeply influenced by them. Hošek presents Foglar’s world as a unique and specifically Czech type of implicit religion for boys (and, although they perhaps were not Foglar’s main target group, also girls). Inspired by Ninian Smart’s famous Dimensions of the sacred, Hošek proceeds to analyze the phenomenon of “Foglaring” as a coherent worldview, functionally equivalent to religion. He analyzes the rites of passage, especially the initiaAbout a Boy Club Movement, Implicit Religion and a Local Czech and Slovak Transmedia Phenomenon (review)

About a Boy Club Movement, Implicit Religion and a Local Czech and Slovak. Transmedia Phenomenon