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Importance of the celebration of Christian holidays in a secularized society
KOCLÍŘOVÁ, Kateřina
The study deals with the meaning of celebrating Christian holidays in a secularized society. The theoretical part characterizes the celebrating of feasts in human life in general. Further, it describes the liturgical year, with paying closer attention to two main Christian feasts: Christmas and Easter. First, the liturgical celebrations are described, and then the study focuses on celebrating these feasts from the point of view of folk traditions. The other half of theoretical part focuses on the secularization, its historic causes and changes in the form of celebrating holidays in today's secularized society. The practical part describes the qualitative research carried out in the form of interviews. The purpose was to investigate what the meaning of celebrating Christian holidays is there for people who are not practicing Christians. This survey has contributed to the better understanding of the meaning and manner of celebrating Christian feasts in secular families in today's society.
Seasonality of Marriage Rate
Nedomová, Radka ; Pechholdová, Markéta (advisor) ; Kačerová, Eva (referee)
Bachelor thesis is titled Seasonality of marriage rate and its primary goal is to capture and analyse changes in the development of the distribution of marriages by months of the year in the Czech lands since the early 17th century to the present. Seasonality of marriage rate is presented in the form of seasonal indexes of marriage rate and variation coefficients calculated for each period. In the distant period the impact of two major religious holidays and agricultural year on the choice of the date of wedding is emphasized, period after the Second World War is characterized by the appearance of the May superstition about the fate of unhappy marriages entered into in May, whose influence still reduces in recent years and the choice of the term of wedding is today more influenced by weather and interesting magical data. In the period 2003-2010 is analysed seasonality of marriage rate by order of marriage. The thesis also focuses on international comparison of seasonality of marriage rate between years 2000-2010 for which five countries were selected. Italy and Croatia represent countries with stronger Christian tradition, Qatar represents countries with Islamic religion and the countries Latvia and Mauritius were chosen due to their different climatic conditions.

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