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Much evidence to link youth expeditions and gap years with a range of outcome benefits for participants exists, but to date, there have been relatively few insights into what exactly brings about these reported outcomes....

Male and female players have a different quality of service. For example, men can reach a higher service speed, or use more ball spin. Tennis service has also a different efficiency on different surfaces. Every surface h...

David Coady: What to believe now? Applying epistemology to contemporary issues. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, 202 s.

The theme of the study is the Eucharist as a sacrifice of Christ and his Mystical Body. In the beginning, the first analogy is stated – the unique and perfect sacrifice of Christ the High Priest on the cross. The autho...

Often, liberation theology’s preferential option for the poor is pushed aside within theological discourses as being too specific, too focused on social problems, to function as a viable theology for the Church as a wh...

Florian Mildenberger – Jennifer Evans – Rüdiger Lautmann – Jakob Pastötter (eds.): Was ist Homosexualität? Forschungsgeschichte, gesellschafliche Entwicklungen und Perspektiven. Hamburg: Männerschwarm Verlag, 2...

In this paper I argue that football plays a questionable role in promoting two potentially problematic activities, namely drinking alcohol and gambling. Gambling and alcohol companies sponsor clubs and competitions and a...

This article deals with the relationship between public opinion and rumour from ancient times, through the Middle Ages and right up to today. It willexamine the terms which were used and which often depended not just on ...

Recenze: Ivan Chorvát (ed.): Voľnočasové aktivity obyvateľov Slovenska. Poznatky z aktuálních výskumov. Bratislava: Sociologický ústav SAV, 2011, 182 s.

Recenze: Jan Paulas – Martin T. Zikmund – Luboš Kropáček: Po cestách kamenitých. O životě, islámu a křesťanské víře. Praha: Vyšehrad, 2013, 272 s.

This essay presents an argument for a Collingwoodean social philosophy of art that centres on the opposition between art and magic as developed by R. G. Collingwood in Principles of Art and his folklore manuscript. The a...

This article explores selected aspects of narrative expression of identification with social entities in Holocaust survivors’ oral history testimonies, including the related conflicts of identities. In its empirical di...

People usually start thinking about death when something tragic happens, including in the sport context. At the beginning of 20th century, in South Brazil, four rowers died while they practiced their sport, coming back f...

Throughout history social movements have taken on various forms, ranging from grassroots mobilizations to coalitions of professional organizations employing lawyers, project managers and PR specialists. They engage in th...

This article focuses on discussions about the role of the public in the political sphere presented in the writings of philosophers and scholars examining public opinion and American democracy during the 19th and early 20...

Following the book Lucifer Effect (2007) written by the American social psychologist Philip Zimbardo, the study explores his central idea that human character can be easily manipulated and corrupted by force of ‘total ...