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The Semiotics of Han Tombs
Laštovková, Andrea ; Šafaříková, Radana (advisor) ; Nešpor, Zdeněk (referee)
The master thesis called "Semiotics Han Tombs" does not only deal with the semiotics view of space of Han dynasty tombs, when we are examining the number of structures, which are permeating Han graves, we find structures of the world of man living in China, but this process also points to problems of culture interpretation which cultural semiotics helps to eliminate. Problems associated with the sign plays an important role in shaping the very cultural and social identity. The issue of understanding and interpretation of cultures occurs at the time when we select certain features or characters from the structure of a culture to freely create a system without having analyzed the real culture. Always all these elements must be considered in the context of the overall system or structure, or we only deal with empty concepts or definitions. In other words, we do not see the whole picture. Han tomb as a text is polysemous and in many respects incomprehensible. However, the creation, reading and semiosis takes place in it and it is the statement of understanding of this world. So revealing the speaker's worldview depends on the process of interpretation, because the statement may involve a degree of ideological connotations which determined the interpretation independently on the previous coding. Key...
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Weak Church? One Attempt of Reneval of the Catholic Parishes in Bohemia
Tichý, Radek ; Kabele, Jiří (advisor) ; Lužný, Dušan (referee) ; Nešpor, Zdeněk (referee)
The thesis deals with the process in Roman Catholic dioceses in the Czech Republic, which in the first decade of the new century tried to reform the structure of the parishes and renew their religious life. The data gathered during several years of the field research mainly in the Archdiocese of Prague are interpreted using the sociology of space and sociology of organizational change. The successful reform of the structure of parishes and unsuccessful reform of religious life, intended as a goal of the whole process, is explained as caused by so called operational exhaustion of the Church actors, actual isolation of single hierarchical layers and practical unenforceability of the pastoral decisions. The thesis includes also the discussion about the organizational character of the Catholic Church, about the possibilities of comparison of the Czech and French experience, and about the external and internal secularisation of the Czech catholicism.
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