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Spiritual Accompanyment in a Salesian Religious Community
Rybecká, Ludmila ; Sládek, Karel (advisor) ; Ovečka, Libor (referee)
The thesis "Spiritual Accompanying in a Salesian Religious Community" is first trying to map out some possible concepts of the spiritual accompanying in a view of contemporary authors and then to show on the basis of ecclesiastical documents its place in the religious community (1st chapter). After that it deals with the manner of spiritual accompanying in the tradition of the salesian charism, specifically how it was realized by the founders - John Bosco (2nd chapter) and Mary Dominica Mazzarello (3rd chapter). On the basis of a previous, with regard to the current documents of The Daughters of Mary Help of Christian Institute and the teachings of its superiors, and considering the situation of the world today, the thesis points out some aspects which seem to be actual for the salesian style of accompanying today (4th chapter).
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Contemplative Child
Špán, Adam ; Spalová, Barbora (advisor) ; Kotyk, Lukáš (referee)
1 Annotation This thesis addresses the vocation of a Trappist monk which I first encountered during an ethnographic stay in a monastery and later explored further through semi- structured interviews with the monk and his family. The entire thesis is inter-connected by a chronological narrative covering the course of my research which will guide the reader throughout the field notes and interviews in their proper order. Research alone follows the vocation of only one monk but examines it and its formation from the perspective of six family members. The analysis of the interviews made clear that the vocation of a Trappist monk formed linearly with continuous Christian guidance. This guidance had origins in his religious family and was further consolidated by Christian elementary and high school structures. His family was very supportive of his decision to lean into religious life, and while a tendency to asceticism or solitude was refuted in the interviews, it transpired that a strong positive relationship with nature was observable, in-keeping with secluded monastery life in an isolated woodland environment. This case study of a monastic vocation aims to contribute towards the investigation of religious experience and circumstance by combining ethnography and in-depth interviews. The objective is not a...
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Spiritual Accompanyment in a Salesian Religious Community
Rybecká, Ludmila ; Sládek, Karel (advisor) ; Ovečka, Libor (referee)
The thesis "Spiritual Accompanying in a Salesian Religious Community" is first trying to map out some possible concepts of the spiritual accompanying in a view of contemporary authors and then to show on the basis of ecclesiastical documents its place in the religious community (1st chapter). After that it deals with the manner of spiritual accompanying in the tradition of the salesian charism, specifically how it was realized by the founders - John Bosco (2nd chapter) and Mary Dominica Mazzarello (3rd chapter). On the basis of a previous, with regard to the current documents of The Daughters of Mary Help of Christian Institute and the teachings of its superiors, and considering the situation of the world today, the thesis points out some aspects which seem to be actual for the salesian style of accompanying today (4th chapter).
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The Space of Prayer - Ethnography of a Monastic Community
Horská, Kateřina ; Zandlová, Markéta (advisor) ; Spalová, Barbora (referee)
The presented work deals with certain aspects of catholic monastic life; it has been elaborated on the basis of a field research carried out in a female monastic community of an active order in the Czech Republic. In the work, I focus primarily on the topic of prayer and I am trying to answer the following questions: what is the nuns' attitude towards prayer like, which activities we can consider a prayer in the monastic community and what is the influence of these activities on actors in this setting? On theoretical level, the thesis is based especially on the concept of total institutions by E. Goffman and on Pierre Bourdieu's conception of habitus. The text consists of four major parts. In the first, introductory part I describe methodological and ethical issues relevant to my research. In the second part, I concern myself briefly with monastic life in general, its origins and development, and also with stages of monastic life of an individual. The following empirical part based on ethnographic data from my field notes is presented as a description of "a common day" in the monastic community. The last part is theoretical and analytical at the same time; here I deal with the main topic of the thesis. Firstly, I present Goffman's concept of total institutions and I explain how according to this...
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