The celebration of The Wallachian Year held in 1925 significantly influenced the development of folklore movement in the ethnographic region of Moravian Wallachia. This event inspired Arnošt Kubeša to promote traditional folk music and dances as part of his teaching career. For this purpose he founded with his students the first Wallachian Circle in the mid-1930s, he organised its public performances (as well as the first foreign tour of this kind of an ensemble) and continued to found other circles in the end. After his involuntary retirement from the education system due to his "political and ideological unreliability" and his withdrawal from the leading positions in folklore movement associations, Arnošt Kubeša started a new career as a museum employee. This study refers to his activities which contributed to the development of folklore in its second existence.
Among the African people an important social and religious role is performed by funeral rituals, which belong to rituals of passage connected with changing of man’s status and social position. The rituals of the first and secondary funerals among the Konkomba belong to the most extended of all the rituals of passage. The present article describes and analyses the rituals of the first funeral, which are the burial rituals of elderly people (men and women). They differ in the richness of rites and the social significance from the simpler burials of adult people, children or infants. and V živote afrických národů hrají významné místo pohřební rituály, které patří mezi „přechodové rituály", související se změnou postavení člověka ve společnosti. První a druhé pohřební rituály Konkombů patří mezi nejrozsáhlejší ze všech přechodových rituálů. Článek popisuje a analyzuje rituály prvního pohřbu u starších osob (mužů a žen). Tyto pohřby se bohatstvím rituálů i sociálním významem odlišují od jednodušších pohřbů mladších dospělých, dětí a novorozenců.
Suicide in the Habsburg monarchy in the Early Modern Age has hitherto received almost no attention. This text considers attitudes to suicide in the context of questions of sin, conscience and individualization. It traces the changing perceptions of the meaning of these phenomena through theological and moral-philosophical texts, and does so on four levels: (1) suicide as a theme (or non- theme) in 17th and 18th century theology and homiletics; (2) suicide in the reformist theology of the late 18th century; (3) the question of penance; (4) the "good death" and individual responsibility for the salvation of the soul. The author shows that in the last three decades of the 18th century, when more notice began to be paid to the phenomenon of suicide, discourse on the subject assumed a more psychological tone, with theologians and philosophers increasingly drawing attention to the harm done by certain religious and meditative techniques which in their view overexcited the imagination and could result in melancholy and despair. This shift might well be called the secularization of the discourse on suicide., Tomáš Malý., and Obsahuje bibliografické odkazy
The contribution explores the Prague origines of the first Prague and Austrian female author of the Enlightenment, Maria Anna Sager, born Rosskoschny (1719-1805). The reconstruction of the carreer of her father Anton Ferdinand Rosskoschny (1679-1734) at the Böhmische Statthalterei - he ended as "Registrator" and "Expeditor" - proves his social ambitions. On the other hand egodocuments of him conserved in the National Archives at Prague reveal the sorrows and the "stress" of the wellestablished fonctioner, not only his fear in front of the people, but also for his reputation, his family and his soul., Helga Meise., and Obsahuje bibliografické odkazy