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The significance of landscape in the formation of human religiosity (with secondary students)
KNĚZ, Miroslav
The object of this paper is searching for the significance of understanding landscape in the formation of human religiosity. The first part of the paper called Human and landscape attempts to present general characteristics of the relationship of humans and landscape. The second part is devoted to the development of landscape perception of some authors (J. J. Rousseau, Jiří Sádlo, Václav Cílek). The third chapter finds connections between internal experience and the environment humans live in. It is a dynamic relationship which affects the formation of religiosity. Further, human religiosity, the symbolic meaning of landscape and the specific characteristics of adolescence are defined. The conclusion presents particular suggestions for educational work with young adolescents by means of dialogue and participation in landscape.
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The significance of spirituality in the educational process
KOMENDA, Vladimír
Based on this bachelor thesis I wanted to map the key moments in spiritual development of a school-aged child (6-13 years), then to identify and analyse spiritual aspects in education with respect to latent nature of spirituality today. The objective of the work was to answer the major research question, whether religious parents realize the significance of spiritual aspects in education and in spiritual perception of their children. The way of bringing up children in two Christian families was analysed using the respondents? answers. The analysis revealed in which situations religious parents realize the significance of spirituality in education and spiritual perception of their children. Information needed for this thesis was obtained by the method of a qualitative ? semi-structured interview with five open questions focused on individual aspects of Christian education. The interviews clearly show the significance attached to spiritual aspects of education and to spiritual perception of their children by respondents. If a child is able to reflect the spiritual nature of life, it can be assumed that this ability becomes his auspices when dealing with significant life situations. The results of the thesis could be used as further material for sociological studies of a similar theme or as study material for social workers or students of social sciences.
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Working class people in the region of Prachatice - their view of the phenomenon of death and dying and their coming to terms with the loss
ZÍKA, Josef
The work deals with the phenomenon of death and dying, its tabooing, and the influence of religiosity on the loss of a loved one. It maps various views and findings of blue-collar workers concerning death encounters or losses of their loved ones. The work is divided into theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part discusses the differences in perception of the phenomenon of dying and death in the past and today. Other chapters discuss the subject of the loss, grief, communication with survivors and their support in the context of social work. The impact of religiosity of the individual to compensate the loss is monitored in connection with the mourning. The aim of the practical part is - by research - to find out how the phenomenon of death and dying is perceived by different age groups of blue-collar workers in the region of Prachatice. A form of research is also used to elicit their possible reactions to death and the subsequent coping with the loss of a loved one.
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Economics of happiness and religion: Are trappists in the trap of distress?
Tomanová, Julie ; Chalupníček, Pavel (advisor) ; Zajíček, Miroslav (referee)
This work is questioning whether religiosity could be one of the significant factors that have an impact on subjective well-being within the realm of economics of happiness. The data for the analysis of this correlation comes from the mostactic order of Trappist monks. The reason for choosing this contemplative and reclusive order is the effort to limit subsidiary factors that influence this relationship in the outside world. The outputs of this questionnaire after being compared with the results of similar studies and researches confirmed the positive relationship between the religiosity of Trappist monks and their subjective well-being, purpose in life and selfactualisation.
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Satisfaction of Spiritual Needs of In-Patients
ŠROTOVÁ, Jana
According to holistic philosophy, the current trend in the care for patients is satisfying their needs. The problem is that members of medical staff perceive certain needs easier than others, and automatically focus on professional care mainly for biological needs of in-patients. This thesis attempts to prove that even though the spiritual needs of patients are naturally below other needs, they cannot be ignored because the peace of mind of in-patients plays a significant role in their treatment. The theoretic part outlines spirituality as a constant need of all people, and tries to distinguish it from religion. The questions about the meaning and essence of human existence are rooted in the minds of all people. Some people are more sensitive to them, while others don{\crq}t perceive them. When seeking the truth and answers, people often identify themselves with ideas already expressed and professed. If a person looking for answers joins people with similar views and persuasion, he or she becomes a member of some religion, church, or community. The problem of the medical staff is that they reduce satisfaction of the spiritual needs of these people to mere respect for the required liturgy, which is extremely valuable and necessary, but it should not be confused with the needs of human spirituality, as mentioned above. In-patients need to be treated sensitively by the medical staff and to be accepted without reservations just as they are.
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Mapping of sacral objects in the micro region of Vodňany
BLAHOUT, Václav
The present thesis deals with the sacral objects in the catchment area ORP Vodnany, and is divided into several parts. The preliminary part consists of field research of the area, whereat reached the photograph of studied sacral objects, furthermore monitoring of the geographic position, charting of typology of its kind, the degree and the reasons of the damage. I described these findings in the section concerned the reason of the sacral objects position in the monitored area, together with the typology of the observed sacral landscape. The piece of work includes the methodology of creating geo-databases and the synoptic maps connected with the topic in ArcGIS 9.3. software.
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Mapping of the sacred properties in the microregion of Týn nad Vltavou
VAŇOUSOVÁ, Lucie
The bachelor?s work is concerned with mapping of the sacred properties in the microregion of Týn nad Vltavou. On the basis of a terrain research there were taken photographs of some sacred properties in the given area and they were consequently charted to the map. This work contains a typology of the watched sacred properties and geografical aspects of the location of the sacred properties in the microregion of Týn nad Vltavou. The part of the work creates geodatabase. The text of this work is complemented with the photographs, the charts and the map enclosures.
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Pre-school Religious Education of a Child
ČÍŽKOVÁ, Helena
The work deals with the contribution of Maria Montessori{\crq}s educational theory to the diadactics of meditation at pre-school age. In the first chapter the author deals with the psychology of pre-school children, takes into account the religiosity of this age group and claims that a child between the third and fifth year of age displays the notions of the ability to meditate. Furthermore, the work is dedicated to the definition of the concepts of meditation and contemplation. The meaning of meditation in the child{\crq}s world is determined and the first steps for sensitizing the child to a spiritual life are offered. This is followed by a description for practising concentration in the way M. Montessori described it in her educational theory. The last part is oriented to setting examples for practising concentration, which should lead the child to the world of meditation. Examples of meditative meetings take into account the playfulness and fantasy of the pre-school child and significantly influence her spiritual development.
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Spiritual Needs of Hospitalized Patients
SENDLEROVÁ, Klára
This Bachelor`s thesis has the title "Spiritual Needs of Hospitalized Patients." The work endeavors to capture the spiritual needs of hospitalized patients and the way they cope with their illness in relation with their religious belief; whether religious belief plays an important role in their lives. The theoretical part deals with human needs in general. It is followed by the characteristics of spiritual need, which is individual for every person. That is why the chapter on assessing spiritual needs is mentioned here. Furthermore, concepts of spirituality, religion, and religiosity are covered. This is followed by description of spiritual phenomena including personal relationships, spiritual knowledge, and love. I have also included spiritual health and spiritual distress here. The chapter Spiritual development in individual phases of life deals with the way we experience spirituality from childhood to adulthood. It is followed by the chapter Illness and hospitalized person, which mentions the effects of hospitalization on an individual, and also the meaning of religious belief during his illness. The last chapter is called Spiritual care, which includes pastoral care. The aim of the work is to find out, based on quantitative research, what kind of spiritual needs hospitalized patients have and how does the experience of illness differ in religious and non-religious patients. Two hypotheses were set {--} the importance of spiritual needs increases with age, and experience of illness differs in religious and non-religious hospitalized patients. Both of the hypotheses were verified. The research sample consisted of hospitalized patients from Moravian-Silesian Region, from the town Odry, hospitalized at the Chronic diseases ward and Internal medicine ward, and patients from Pilsen Region, from the city Pilsen, hospitalized at the Internal medicine ward and Surgical ward. The interviewing method was used in the form of questionaire data collection. In the discussion, the outcomes are compared with professional literature, and working hypotheses are evaluated. Current situation of the attitude towards spiritual needs, evaluation of hypotheses, and my personal opinion of the topic are mentioned in the conclusion.
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SPIRITUALITY AND RELIGIOSITY OF SENIORS
VACHOVÁ, Klára
The presented bachelor thesis is titled ``Spirituality and Religiosity of Seniors{\crqq}. The terms spirituality, religiosity and spiritual needs are not exactly clear at the moment in our society. Despite that, the spiritual dimension of man is a part of the so called holistic view of man as a bio-psycho-socio-spiritual being. This work brings a closer characteristic of spiritual dimension and clarifies what role spiritual needs can play in the life of a senior. The work is divided into two parts. In the theoretical part, the terms spirituality and religiosity are explained and possible spiritual needs of clients, elementary psychology of old age and atheism are characterized. The following have been included among spiritual needs: the need to find a sense of life, the need to find a sense of suffering, the need of transcendence, the need to be loved and to love, the need of belief, the need of hope, the need to have a clear conscience, the need to forgive others, the need of prayer and meditation and the need of symbols and images. The aim of the work is to define spiritual needs of seniors. It also attempts to find out if these needs are fulfilled and to what extent. Qualitative and quantitative research methods were combined. In the quantitative part of the research the method of asking questions was used. Questionnaire was the technique of data collection. Two working hypotheses related to the aims were chosen. In the qualitative part the technique of an interview was chosen on the basis of a narrative method. The research was carried out in a Home for seniors in Veselí nad Lužnicí and in a Care home in Veselí nad Lužnicí. Information obtained from the questionnaires was processed manually using the tick method and descriptive statistics. Bar charts and pie charts were used for graphical representation of the data. Program Microsoft Excel was used to produce the graphs. In the discussion, the results of the research are compared with specialized literature and working hypotheses are evaluated. Own opinions of the given problems and recommendations for practice are stated in the conclusion.
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