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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 ...

This contribution is dealing with an evaluation of tourism position in the Czech society in the end of the 19th century and in the first decades of the 20th century. Tourism depending on social and economic state of soci...

This study is concerned with the relation between charity and Catholic Social Teaching, particularly from the perspective of their historical development and on the basis of magisterial documents. First, the historical d...

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 study deals with pilgrimages to Esquipulas, Guatemala, and patterns of miracle in terms of their perception by the pilgrims reaching this prominent religious hub of Central America. Two key pilgrimage discourses are ...

The article aims at shedding light on the search for God in the work of the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke. Rilke’s relentless search for God, who appears to be concealed (and obscured), threads through his entire work...

Adopting the standpoint of Eric Voegelin, this article deals with the two kinds of the the philosophical search for God: the cosmological one, starting from the contingency of things in the external world, and the existe...

This text inquires into the problem of cadenced step as the disciplinary technique of the body, according to theories of Marcel Mauss and Michel Foucault. Author explores historical core of military body techniques in so...

Simmel’s social theory, namely his formal sociology, has long been considered if not dead, then of little relevance for contemporary sociological theories. This study is an attempt at proving the contrary. Our aim is t...

This paper deals with exchanges and misunderstandings between the German school of social history (most prominently represented by scholars from the University of Bielefeld (such as Hans-Ulrich Wehler) and Anglo-American...

The article deals with the 1938 treatise History of the All- Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), abbreviated AUCP(b) - an official treatise from the Stalin era of the USSR which was published on a mass scale. The author ...

Premysliden ruled over the Czech countries (Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia) more than three hundred years (ca. 930–1306). They cooperated with the ruling houses of the neighboring states (Hungary, Poland, Saxony, Bavari...

This paper focuses on "The Philadelphia Negro": a community study that stands at the start of American social research. This somewhat forgotten empirical study from 1899 describes the historical conditions and the econom...

Heidegger’s concept of metaphysics as onto-theology based on necessary union of logic, ontology and theology demonstrates fundamental crisis of modern theodicy. Univocity of being, based on Avicennian epistemology of t...

O doteku věčné pravdy. K Augustinově křesťanské transformaci novoplatónské mystiky Článek zkoumá Augustinovo přetvoření novoplatónské mystiky v křesťanském duchu. Augustinus navazuje na křesťanský...

The author of this paper presents a critical study of an extensive book of Vojtěch Novotny, dedicated to the life and work of Bonaventura Bouše (1918–2002). This Franciscan priest played an important part in the life...

Behaviour of an individual is seen as the result of a series of decisions taken on the basis of his taken-for-granted knowledge about the universe – that knowledge is shared by specific others. That is the social reali...

This article deals with the development of the Roman Missal from the Council of Trent to the Second Vatican Council. Although the Apostolic constitution Quo Primum forbade any changes to the Pope Pius V’s text of the M...