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Book review: Dennis Smith: Civilized Rebels. An Inside Story of the West’s Retreat from Global Power. London: Routledge, 2018, 216 s.

Czechoslovak Church has not yet been a subject of a detailed study. Recent research has dealt mostly with particular churches built by important Czech modernist architects (Gočár, Janák, Víšek) or with periods of de...

The aim of the article is to investigate the theory of conceptual metaphor with regard to its possible use in fundamental theology. Instead of focusing on the analysis of concrete metaphors, the article argues that it is...

The purpose of this paper is to describe the structure, content, and objectives of lectures on Homer that were given by two prominent intellectuals of the early sixteenth century, namely Matthaeus Collinus (1516–1566) ...

The article deals with the postmodern criticism of Christianity. Our investigation focuses on French philosopher Jean-Francois Lyotard who was the leading figure of the theory of postmodernism. Lyotard’s postmodern thi...

The paper presents the typical course of education, life journeys, and careers of professors of theology and law based on selected Viten (Vitae, biographies) from an early-modern collection of biographies by the Heidelbe...

Given the extent and state of surviving source materials, it is rather difficult to satisfactorily document the involvement of women of Jewish origin in academic education and their subsequent careers in science and prac...

Selected Problems with Diagnostics of Sarcopenia in Long-term-care Facilities for the Elderly As the current population gets older, we are learning that some of the diseases and conditions which were formerly perceived ...

The submitted study deals with various types of works written by 16th- and 17th-century Central European philosophy professors. Their intensive production is examined with the use of the following nine categories: 1. lec...

The presented study is focused at identifying the genetic predispositions for anaerobic performance in a group of elite fencers of the Czech Republic. Based on theoretical findings and previous studies, we assume that th...

Coptic-Arabic liturgical texts express the Easter mysteries in the rich idiom of the Scriptures and ancient Christian tradition, as seen in the Eucharistic Liturgies of St. Basil and St. Gregory, as well as in hymns and ...

After a brief presentation of basic forms of spiritual direction and after stressing the importance of personal spiritual experience, the article describes Ignatian concept of human being in relation with God and God’s...

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 ...

This article argues that attempts by philosophy to think emotions as embodied is caught between the necessity of thinking them as a subjective first person dimension of experience on the one hand and as an objective biol...

The abuse of Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution during the late presidency of Hindenburg has been criticized in many previous studies as one of the key factors of the collapse of the Weimar Republic that led to the es...

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...

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Objectives: The aim of this study was to analyse active level of lifestyle among asthmatic patients and their participation on physical activities and sports. Another goal was to find out whether asthmatic patients are l...

Book review: Gábriš, T. Rytieri v republike. Zrušenie šľachtických titulov v Československu. Bratislava: Wolters Kluwer SR, s. r. o., 2018, 344 s.

One of the tools of self-regulation, which helps to settle a dispute between commercial counterparties from different states is international commercial arbitration. International commercial arbitration is an alternative...

Book review on Johanna Domokos: Endangered Literature. Essays On Translingualism, Interculturality, And Vulnerability. Budapest: Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary & L’Harmattan Publishing, 2...

Juraj Šuch, Jan Horský (ed.): Narace a (živá) realita. Praha: Togga, 2012, 112 str.

Book review on Kdo přinesl na pražskou univerzitu Wyclifovy myšlenky? Martin Dekarli, Wyclif, Páleč a nominalisté na pražské univerzitě v pozdním středověku (Edice Středověk, sv. 7), Nakladatelství Lidové...

One of the main challenges facing local authorities in the regions affected by the current refugee and migrant crisis is to properly deal with the healthcare dimension, both in terms of providing adequate healthcare to m...