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Jehovah's Witnesses - the Development of Selected Doctrines
Velechovský, Petr ; Bartoň, Josef (advisor) ; Větrovec, Pavel (referee)
The Jehovah's Witnesses and the company Watchtower are quite known to the public. Since the foundation of the Jehovah's Witnesses, thousands of articles in the press tried, less or more successfully, to describe their history. When we come out of the perspective, that they publish only truth about themselves, we would have to conclude, that they are the best religious organization on the world. Since 1998 I have published many articles intentionally dedicated to the issues of Jehovah's Witnesses and other new religious movements in these journals: Dingir - religionistic journal about current religious scene, Rozmer - a journal for Christian spiritual orientation, and Sects and Facts. I also refuted the errors and mistakes published by others about their organization. The aim was to publish truthful information that is not commonly available to their members and the public. In the era of the internet and digitalized archives it would seem that it's no longer needed. Various information can be found on the internet, but they are valuable only when properly verified and, if possible, taken from primary sources. That's why it's necessary to have the critical view on the teachings of the Witnesses and objectively evaluate the danger that comes from their teachings to the believers and unbelievers. The...
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Church restitution and analysis within
Dvořáčková, Petra ; Hájková, Ivana (advisor) ; Pikola, Pavel (referee)
The year 1989 is an important milestone in the modern history of Czechoslovakia and later the Czech Republic. This year started a search for answers to many important questions, injustices and related remedies. It includes not only moral issues but also property relations among our state and individuals or legal entities.
My bachelor work on the theme The Church restitution and its analysis focuses especially on property injustices, although the moral side of these matters reflects in them deeply. The view on possible damages or justifications with churches in our country is described here. The history and development of this problem is given from the beginning to its approval and coming into force of the law no. 428/2012 Collection, on property settlement with churches and religious societies dated December 5, 2012 effective from January 1, 2013.
The main purpose of this work is to analyze the financial expenses according to the old legislation (Act no. 218/1949 Coll.) compared to financial expenses expected after the adoption of the law on church property settlement and religious societies from the state budget based on the trends of this issue. The assessment of the benefits of new legislation against the previous law is the crucial output of this work. The practical part is also marginally focused on one of the organizational units of the Czech Republic Office of the Government Representation in Property Affairs.
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Religious structure of the population of Vysočina
TEPLÁ, Veronika
This bachelor thesis is devoted to the religious structure of the population of Vysočina. Its aim is the analysis and description of religion of the local population as well as its church or denominational affiliation. The analysis is realised on the level of the districts in Vysočina Region and the municipalities with extended authority. The gathered data originates from the Czech Statistical Authority from the 2011 Census of the Czech Republic. In order to assess the development of the religious structure more precisely the data from 2001 and 1991 were allowed for, too. The results of analysis are supplemented with graphs, tables and maps. The thesis includes explanation of fundamental terms of religious studies as well, which were sourced from technical literature. The next part of the thesis is devoted to characteristics of each religion, church and religious societies registered in Czech Republic with main emphasis on Christianity.
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Value orientations and perceiving of meaning in life by Jehovah´s Witnesses
VÍT, Pavel
This thesis is concerned with the research of values, value orientations and perceiving meaning in life by members of the Jehovah´s Witnesses religious community. It´s goal is to identify, which values recognise Jehovah´s Witnesses and how do they perceive meaning in life. In theoretical part is characterized this religious community and described values, value orientations and meaning in life as a psychological and other social sciences phenomena. In empirical part are observed values and meaning in life of 4 research participants - Jehovah´s Witnesses. Research was realized in a qualitative design, using methods of Grounded Theory and using semi-structured interview as a technique of data collection. On the basis of data analysis are presented recognized values and perceiving meaning in life by Jehovah´s Witnesses.
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