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Effect of selected women's religious orders in the social and health
BÁRTOVÁ, Hana
The aim of this thesis is to monitor the work of selected female orders in social service and healthcare and to classify the target groups that nuns work with. At the same time the thesis studies the interdigitation of spiritual life and the values of conventual order with practical nuns' work and it also monitors the experience of particular nuns relating to their work in ordinary life outside their community. An important aspect is also their concept of social work and healthcare with respect to their order and their concept with respect to secular concept. To meet the target of this thesis I have chosen a qualitative research method, particularly a half-structured dialogue method, which provided both free narration of individual nuns and possible further questions of the inquirer, which helped explain the details. In chapter "Results" there are portraits of each nun, created on the basis of half-structured dialogues. The portraits keep their authenticity, although redundant words were omitted and dialectal and colloquial expressions were translated into standard Czech. The main value of this thesis lies in the compact overview of induvidual institutions, where nuns work. These organizations are either own by particular congregations, which concern Sisters of Mercy of St. Borromeo and Congregation of the Mercy Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis under the Protection of the Holy Family in Brno, to whom these organizations were returned in the 90s of the 20th century or the nuns work in organizations that are owned by someone else, which is the case of Daughters of Charity of st. Vincent de Paul. The significant value of this thesis lies in the complete number of nuns in particular congregations, the data are clearly written in the table, created on the basis of the study of all parts of the Catalogue of the male and female congregations in the Czech Republic. Table 12 shows the number of nuns in particular congregations from the end of the 90s of the 20th century till the year 2015. Table 13 shows the number of nuns in selected congregations who work in healthcare and social service at present.
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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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