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Easter, Crossroad of Traditions
Benešová, Eva ; Hošek, Pavel (referee) ; Balabán, Milan (advisor)
Easter is one of the major festivals of the Christian church. This master thesis deals with Easter and their colourful tradition. The first part of work is about Jewish festival Passover, Pesach. Christian Easter is connected to the Passover. The Passover festival arises from connection of two holidays Pesach and Matsot. Matsot was originally agricultural holiday and Pesach was nomadic feast connected with offering of the lamb. Later the festivals were coalesced and historicized. The festival has became a reminder of God's liberation of the Israelite from Egyptian slavery. The important component of Pesach is seder. Seder is a passover ritual feast. Jesus' last supper, where he instituted the Lord's Supper, has relationship with seder. The second part of this work deals with folk Easter custome in Czech republic. Origin of many customs is associated with pagan religion. Work outlines the bases of pre-Christian religion of Bohemia and Moravia. Spring was important term in bygone times. The country waken up in this time and it was necessary help this process to establish prosperity for following year. Lots of the Easter customs contains elements of agrarian and sympathetic magic. Some of pagan religious elements become a components of Christian Easter, for example egg. The painted Easter egg, sacred to many...
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On the Transplantation of Buddha's Teaching to the West
Markoš, Ján ; Hošek, Pavel (advisor) ; Balabán, Milan (referee)
Západ objavil buddhizmus iba nedávno a nie je tomu ani pol storočia odvtedy, čo sa ľudia žijúci na Západe začali k tejto náuke masovejšie hlásiť. Udomácňovanie buddhizmu na Západe preto ani zďaleka nie je ukončeným dejom; ide o živý, práve prebiehajúci proces, ktorého možné dôsledky sú ešte v nedohľadne. Buddhizmus bol na Západ takpovediac "transplantovaný" z východného kultúrneho okruhu, kde je dlhé storočia doma; v súčasnosti plynú prvé chvíle po operácii; ešte nie je zrejmé, či Západ cudzie teleso vo svojom tele prijme, a ak áno, v akej forme a s akými komplikáciami.1 Prerastanie buddhizmu do západnej spoločnosti je dialógom ako na spirituálnej, tak na kultúrnej rovine. Pritom ide o dialóg ohromných rozmerov, či už ide o šírku preberaných tém, počet ľudí, ktorí sa na ňom zúčastňujú, alebo geografickú vzdialenosť miest, na ktorých prebieha. Máloktorý iný interkultúrny dialóg prebieha na tak veľkej škále, a zároveň v tak pokojnom duchu. Preto sa mi zdá, že analýza fenoménu buddhizmu na Západe môže okrem poznatkov o tomto konkrétnom jave priniesť i určitý vhľad do povahy interkultúrneho a medzináboženského dialógu ako takého.
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Funeral and mourning in judaism
Turecká, Jana ; Hošek, Pavel (advisor) ; Balabán, Milan (referee)
Funeral and mourning in judaism The thesis, that is presented here, aims to explore an approach towards dying and death in judaism, system of rites in jewish burial, and coping with death with the assistance of these rituals and grieving process. Author focuses on the concept of life and death withing jewish view, depicts the meaning of rituals and healing processes, which follow after death. She also compares grieving, as we know it in judaism, with psychological approach towards grieving, that is with (five) stages of grief according to Elisabeth Kübler - Ross. Through that, the theme embodies a discourse, which allows an interdisciplinary discussion. Author of this thesis is trying to find connections and mutual contribution among the two main showed approaches, finding profits and meanings of funeral rituals and grieving stages, and therefore finding a new view of life, good dying and the healing process of grief.
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An Attempt to Conceive the Role of the Sacred in Music. The Character and Application of the Sacred in the Music of Richard Wagner
Klodnerová, Lenka ; Balabán, Milan (advisor) ; Štampach, Ivan (referee) ; Nekvasil, Miloslav (referee)
In my thesis An Attempt to Conceive the Role of the Sacred in Music. The Character and Application of the Sacred in the Music of Richard Wagner - I aim to search for connecting points as well as differences between the field of religion (and theology) and the field of music (and the art as such). I find the religious experience of human being to be relative to the aesthetic experience in its fullness. However, there is a relation of analogy, not identity, between those. If we attempt to define the role of the sacred in music, we have to include the historical context, theological, philosophical and aesthetical issues and after having researched them, we are obliged to get rid of them, to become free to approach the depth of the problem. For more detailed inquiry I chose the music of Richard Wagner. The reason for my choice was, that his music is full of contradicting influences and non musical stuff included, so that it can serve as a perfect example of the problematics. We have to pursue the whole way of digging into the problem and the conclusions we make are a result of a complex inquiry of the field in our scope. The misleading moments in Wagner ́s life and work have to be named and explained, so that we can arrive at the real treasure of the music, hidden under the cover of different meanings and...
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Myths of the Contemporary Man: An Application of the "Mythic Reading" Method to the Selected Works of the World of the World Literature of the 20th and 21st Centuries.
Bargár, Pavol ; Balabán, Milan (advisor) ; Štampach, Ivan (referee) ; Trojan, Jakub (referee)
Present paper tries to offer an approach to the myth which would characterize the currentness of myth for the contemporary man. The paper begins with an attempt to grasp meaning(s) of the Greek term μυθος, its relationship to the term λογος in the course of history and a critical evaluation of definitions and interpretation methods on case studies of selected scientists in the field of myth theory. Subsequently, own definition of myth is proposed, following and elaborating the theories of P. Ricoeur, L. Coupe, D. Cupitt, and others. Myth is then perceived as a dialectics between narrative and mythic motives which are not unalterable but, in the context created by a story, they obtain always a new meaning. In such manner, myths form chains of interconnected versions that are open for future interpretations in the process of "radical typology." Myths are not restricted to the realm of religion, "radical typology" factors profane context into calculation. Individual links of the chains of myths can represent pieces of literature as well. It is the literary works of 20th and 21st century (M. Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, G. Orwell's 1984, H. Murakami's Kafka on the Seashore, P. Auster's The City of Glass) that are in this paper interpreted as myths, the method of "mythic reading" being applied. It is...
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Zen Buddhism
Grendel, Petr ; Balabán, Milan (advisor) ; Hošek, Pavel (referee)
This work is not written because of evidence necessary to study Zen Buddhism and practice meditation. I rather want to show that Zen Buddhism view of the world and individual in it is at least latently present in our philosophical traditions. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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The Notion of Sehnsucht in the Works of C. S. Lewis
Hájek, Matěj ; Hošek, Pavel (advisor) ; Balabán, Milan (referee)
Předmětem mého studijního zájmu v této práci je fenomén sehnsucht jako významný prvek v díle anglického profesora renesanční literatury a spisovatele C. S. Lewise (1898-1963). Pozornost zaměřím především na Lewisovo hodnocení významu sehnsucht pro náboženské myšlení a zkušenost. Perspektivu tohoto autora jsem si vybral proto, že sehnsucht hraje v jeho díle i životním příběhu zásadní roli. Svou prací dojdu k vyhodnocení teze: Prožitek sehnsucht je z pohledu C. S. Lewise univerzálně přístupná lidská zkušenost touhy, jejímž předmětem je metafyzická poslední skutečnost. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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