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Beautiful Goddess: Contemporary Feminine Spirituality in the example of the female tantric groups
Veselá, Helena ; Nešpor, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Vojtíšek, Zdeněk (referee)
This thesis elaborates the results of the research I carried out wtihin the year 2009 in a paid course of female tantric initiation. The theme of the thesis was inspired by my previous interest in the Goddess movement. As this movement is not yet concretized in the Czech republic, I have chosen participating in a closed women's group which is very close to it due to a specific combination of religion, philosophy and psychology. My goal was to find out what form the women's spirituality has in the Czech environment and what kind of women are drawn to it. While the first part of the thesis deals with the universal characteristics of the current eclectic spirituality generally described as the New Age movement, the second part is devoted to the research itself. I come to the conclusion that the symbol of the Goddess, the key idea of the thesis, is not perceived only as a religious concept but also as a medium by means of which women define their needs and problems resulting from their femininity. By this particular case, I advert to the very psychotherapeutic dimension of women's spirituality. Keywords: New Age, tantra, The Goddess, body, spirituality, femininity, self-realization, strength, motherhood
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Spiritual needs in the new concepts of care
VEJŠICKÁ, Milena
The work focuses on the spiritual needs of seniors and their saturation in modern concepts of senior care. The work is theoretically aimed to clarify how the spiritual needs of seniors are reflected in the modern concepts of care. The first chapter is devoted to the old age and aging, it describes the changes associated with aging, characterizes the term dementia and describes the societal view on aging. The second chapter deals with the characteristics of the basic human needs. In the third chapter the focus lies on the developmental tasks of aging and the seniors´ adaptation to age as a spiritual task. The fourth chapter describes the concept of spirituality and constitutes the fundamental spiritual needs of seniors. The fifth chapter focuses on selected modern concepts of senior care. These are the Sensory activation by Lore Wehner, psychobiografic care model by professor Böhm, the concept of basal stimulation and the validation method Naomi Feil. The final chapter assesses the significance of spiritual needs and their saturation within the mentioned concepts.
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The Spiritual Dimension of the Landscape and its history as a means of education for children in the Out of School Care And Recreation (OSCAR)
RAMDANOVÁ, Jitka
The theoretical part of this thesis deals with the relation between the spiritual dimension of a landscape and spiritual growth of a child. It draws on psychological research of younger school children, concentrates on communication and group behavior of children. It further draws on discoveries of pedagogy of free time, especially in the environment of a school club. From the spiritual point of view, it tracks the overlap of humans and landscape; it examines their relationship and interaction, concentrates on specifics of value in connection with the transcendent and the projection of these specifics into a landscape that surrounds us. This projection helps us to understand not only the organization and appearance of this landscape in time but also the inner landscape of our soul. This thesis focuses on the landscape in the very heart of Premyslid Central Bohemia. The practical part of this thesis consists of two concepts for creative work in a school club. These two concepts aim to help to develop children spirituality, their enrichment through experience and creativity, help to develop social competences of children and prevent psycho-social problems through various activities reflected in a group of children working together. These activities include group visits of churches, chapels, crosses, commemorative crosses and stones, quells, wells and bells and ensuing search of values in our inner selves. The practical part of this thesis stresses the importance of creativity in children, looks for possible topics of its development within the framework of activities organized by a school club.
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Animation of The Church of the Annunciation of Virgin Maria in Ostrov nad Ohří
Šetková, Kateřina ; Tyslová, Irena (advisor) ; Kouba, Vojtěch (referee)
This thesis focuses on the animation project of the Church of the Annunciation of Virgin Maria in Ostrov nad Ohří, that became a socio-cultural center throughout the whole monastery grounds. The theoretical part defnes the theory of cultural heritage animation with the partial focus on the animation of spiritual structure in the context of perception and outlining the sacred and spirituality. The aim is to describe the implemented animation project. The part of this description is presented by analyzing the spiritual essence of the animated object and whether this object managed to keep this essence.
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Weberova teze „ducha kapitalismu“ jako východisko spirituálních potenciálů podnikatelského a manažerského prostředí.
Kučera, Dušan ; Nový, Ivan (advisor) ; Riedlbauch, Václav (referee) ; Mlčoch, Lubomír (referee)
Submitted work is based on a critical evaluation of Weber's thesis "the spirit of capitalism", which justified by the "Protestant ethic". The author uses the Weber's starting point for the processing of general spiritual concept, which has a major impact on the emergence, development and maintenance of the economic environment, business and management. After clarification of the fundamental concepts, the work focuses on clarifications to the phenomenon of spirituality, which is connected with the entrepreneurial and managerial activities. Presence of the spiritual character of business potentials was divided into positive and negative factors. General spiritual factors are reflected on the background of basic religious systems -- Judaism, Christianity (Protestantism, Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy), Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and other Asian directions. Spiritual perspectives are compared with the concepts of the science that have their limits or potentials. The practical part is devoted to the proof of spiritual influences on business and economic development. The work culminates in a research of spiritual factors and potentials of entrepreneurship and management between the selected entrepreneurs and managers. The collected factors and potentials are summarized and proposed for their use in the entrepreneurial and managerial practice or managerial training.
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The Elderly and Spirituality: Spiritual Needs in Daily Life
SUCHOMELOVÁ, Věra
The currenly growing preference for "active aging" aims to promote the longest possible physical and mental vitality. Caring for the spiritual development and spiritual needs of older people is usually thought to be a private matter, or an area within the competence of churches, and related to traditionally religious older people. With regard to the bio-psycho-socio-spiritual unity of the person, it is evident that spirituality ? and spiritual needs as its expression ? belong in the life of every individual, though it is primarily an individual experience linked to a particular personality and life history. Through spirituality they seek to answer questions relating to the purpose and pursuit of life, to higher values, to the processing of suffering and evil, and to some questions having eschatological character. This dissertation defines spirituality's everyday place on the path to a good life in old age. The empirical part of the dissertation is a qualitative study called Spiritual Needs in the Daily Life of the Elderly in Southern Bohemia. The first part shows the development of religiosity or spirituality of two dozen South Bohemians over seventy-five years, focusing on the period of early religious socialization, stages of working life under the rule of Communism, and the present form of religiosity or spirituality. The second part presents a possible typology of their fundamental spiritual needs: dignity, sense of continuity in ones life story, hope, faith and love. On the basis of these findings, recommendations are then put forward for pastoral, social, and geragogical practices.
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Spirituality in the Treatment of Drug Addictions
ZAHRADNÍKOVÁ, Kateřina
The thesis deals with the spirituality of a drug addiction therapy. The first chapter classifies drugs and characterizes drug addictions and their therapies. To clear up the context and point of view, the second chapter explains the meaning of spirituality in relation to its development. First, it intorduces the ancient spirituality, based on heatheninsmas, a meaning of Sanctity in relation to our ethnic origin. Further on, it pictures the Christian spirituality with its practical aspects. Next, the spirituality is viewed through psychology with the central idea of the sense of life. This part highlights diverse views of various authors which are put to one common context. Furthermore, the second chapter describes the connections between spirituality, drug addictions and therapeutic methods using spiritual aspects which appear to be useful in the therapy of drug addictions.
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Qualitative research of religious representations among preschool children
KOUDELKOVÁ, Pavlína
In this thesis qualitative research is conducted within grounded theory focusing on the research of how children perceive certain religious symbols, what religious notions appear in children on the conscious and subconscious levels, and what religious notions they create about various religious phenomena. In the theoretical part the following terms are explained: preschool age children from the point of view of development theories, the terms religiosity and spirituality, key representatives and terms of the psychology and sociology of religion. In the methodological part I describe qualitative research, the method of in-depth semi-structured interviews, as well as the different and the common religious and spiritual notions of preschool age children.
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Faith and its incentives to education in postmodernism
RYBOVÁ, Jaroslava
The bachelor thesis deals with what is the significance of faith and the development of one's spiritual dimension in a postmodern society. It outlines the causes leading to the need to further develop spirituality. At the same time, possible negatives associated with new religious movements are pointed out.
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Social work in the context of risks and influences of occultism in a post-modern society
DRÁPELOVÁ, Petra
The thesis deals with the issue of risks associated with modern occultism in social work and ethic reflection of dilemmas which may occur in social work in connection with the spiritual dimension of people.The first Chapter presents social work as an independentsphere, it provides a brief overview of the social care history, points out the values on which social work is based, reflects the influence of Christianity on creation of the all-society solidarity and emphasizes importance of social worker personality.The second Chapter further develops the topics of religiosity and spirituality, paying special attention in particular to the institutionalized form of spirituality. drawn. The issues of spirituality which need not have any official form are the subject matter of the third Chapter of the Thesis. The Thesis presents alternative directions associated especially with the New Age movement, which combine elements of different traditions in an unusual way. This Chapter is focused on the risks connected with practicing modern occultism and which one may face in the field of social work as well. It also reflects various dilemmas arising from the context of spirituality and from confrontation of personal values of the worker with those of the organization or the client. The fourth Chapter enriches the Thesis with a pastoral dimension which can be helpful for social workers in the improvement of quality of their work and in prevention of ethical dilemmas.
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