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After the First World War an anti-alcohol movement requiring the prohibition intensified both in Europe and the USA and it also resonated strongly in the Czechoslovakia. The main representative of this movement was the C...

Poor posture negatively influences the hemodynamics of the upper extremities. In clinical practice, this is known as Thoracic outlet syndrome. Poor posture leads to muscle imbalances which are solved with the active exer...

The Qur’ān contains only fragments of Adam’s story in six different sūras, apart from several minor references. These may be arranged into five thematic chapters: (1) the creation of man; (2) adoration by angels; (...

Alexander Fazik – Jan Štemberk (eds.): Aktuální problémy volného času a cestovního ruchu. Pelhřimov, Praha: Nová tiskárna Pelhřimov, VŠO Praha, 2013, 199 str.

This study concentrates on the analysis of social structure of medieval society and accordingly on the acquisition of knowledge (1) about their orderliness, (2) inner processes (3) and least partially their influence on ...

Uznání náboženské svobody – prubířský kámen recepce lidských práv v církvi Uznáním moderních lidských práv v encyklice Pacem in terris byla připravena cesta pro pozitivní recepci náboženské svobo...

The general character of the memory of the contemporary witnesses and the fact that nearly no Christian samizdat of the 1960s has been preserved do not allow to offer a closer look to the topics discussed by the priests ...

In contemporary Biblical Hermeneutics, the perception of a gulf between past and present mind-set has led scholars to seek for a transcending and universal moment within authoritative scriptures of Christianity (Schneide...

Are Olympians Real Idols of Young People for their Motivation and Participation in Sport? The aim of this study was to determine: “if Olympic champions are real models and idols for today’s young people” and wheth...

The paper presents an overview of the situation of the biblical scholarship after the beginning of the 21th century. After a brief historical introduction the factors are specified that have influenced a present-day posi...

Why are things different on the other side of national borders; and how can this be explained sociologically? This inaugural lecture tries to answer these questions, starting from the example of the bicycle in the Nether...

This article centres around the Czechoslovakian perception of holiday travel to Yugoslavia in the 1920s with particular attention to the typology of Czech tourists. It has been shown that travel to Yugoslavia was very po...

The article describes the role of the Chicago School of Sociology in the development of empirical social research. It traces the increase in the significance of the education of doctoral students on American universities...

The author of the essay reflects two possible approaches towards epistemology. First approach, according to him, originates in the Antiquity and Middle Ages; its systematic form can be also encountered in the contemporar...

Comparison of Athletics Records of Intellectually Disabled Persons with Records of Intact Athletes Comparative studies between intact and ID (Intellectually Disabled) individuals have been carried out in many areas (psy...

Přirozenost o sobě v kontextu problematiky univerzálií Článek pojednává o pojmu přirozenosti o sobě v díle významného portugalského filosofa Sebastiana Couto (1567–1639), autora jedné části slavného ...

Morální právo na vzdělání v křesťansko-etickém pohledu Právo na vzdělání jako jedno ze sociálních lidských práv je v posledních letech v rámci křesťanské sociální etiky intenzivně diskutováno. ...

Following the findings of contemporary theological and religious studies research, the present interdisciplinary study attempts to trace the process of adopting the originally Roman category of “religion” for referri...

The content of this article is to compare overall market values of football national representations which took part in UEFA EURO 2012 in Poland and the Ukraine. The size of team market value is determined by a summariza...

This work attempts to present the birth, development, and diffusion of modern marathon and distance running. Ancient stories and initial beginnings are fairly mentioned, but without any attempt to analyze in details the ...

The current article introduces the issue of race and racism in the United States of America with focus on two specific contemporary concepts that have a big attention and have formed the discussion in the last years. The...

The paper explains the approach applied for the edition of Biblia Hebraica Quinta (BHQ) in the context of previous critical editions of the Hebrew Bible. A concise historical survey presents the progress of the Biblical ...