The Oromo nationalism becomes one of the most sensitive issues within Ethiopian studies or those groups of social scientists dealing with socio-political development of contemporary Ethiopia. On one hand, especially Oromo authors from the diaspora are very active in redefining and reinventing of Ethiopia’s history, on the other hand, mainly Western social scientist tend to analyze Ethiopia’s “ethnic problem” in broader perspectives. The aim of this study is to present some arguments which modify perceptions on the Oromio nationalism as a homogeneous movement heading to independent Oromia. According to my own fieldwork and by studying contemporary scholarly works I came to a conclusion that there are many strategies within Ethiopia which the Oromo people use in order to co-exist with other ethnic groups in Ethiopia and that the will to secede is rather minor phenomenon. Reasons can be found in a complex nature of the Oromo society where many other variables besides ethnicity come into discussion with religion being probably the most important one. That is why I have used examples from both Muslim Oromos as well as Christian Oromos to support my arguments.
The study analyses, how the political change after 1918 influenced the conditions of churches in relation to ethnic affiliations. It shows with an emphasis on the Germans in Czechoslovakia how activities of foreign confessional groups altered the terms in the examined churches. The paper concerns an overview that should follow further detailed analyses of the relation between confessional and ethnic minorities in the interwar period. and Článek zahrnuje poznámkový aparát pod čarou
The paper examines theoretical discourses of ethnicity and has three main objectives: (1) to categorize and compare three academic approaches to-wards ethnicity, nation and nationalism, (2) to identify the core distinction between ethnic and national identity, and (3) to analyze the differences between approaches through activity and objectivity of ethnicity. The traditional distinction between primordialist and modernist/situationist approaches is enhanced by adding the ethicist approach to the interjacent boundary. There are three core lines of distinctions between these approaches. Firstly, it is, more or less, the dis-tinction between primordiality of ethnicity and modernity of nation, not primordiality and modernity itself, which divides the discussed approaches. Secondly, most academic theories, regardless of their background, interpret the ethnicity (nation) as situational rather than objective or subjective phenomenon. Lastly, it is the scale of activity of ethnicity (activity of individuals - components - systems) which differs among the theories.
At the example of Czech board game "Pestrá cesta zeměmi koruny svatováclavské" [A manifold journey through the St. Wenceslaus' Lands] the paper explores the ways in which the Czech nationalists tried to influence children and spread the proper konwledge abou what the motherland meant. and Článek zahrnuje poznámkový aparát pod čarou
The study confronts the election results with the ethnical affiliation and rethinks the question, to what extent the different electoral codes could have influenced the political and national split in Bohemian Crown Lands prior to the World War I. and Článek zahrnuje odkazy pod čarou
The study focuses on the relationships between political liberalization and democratization and the public activities of women's associations. and Článek zahrnuje poznámkový aparát pod čarou
The study summarizes the history of the Czech Constitutional Progressive Party, a special voice of the radical Czech nationalism at the beginning of the 20th century. It was the first political party, which incorporated the idea of an independent Czech state outside the framework of Austria-Hungary, counted with the international solution of the Czech question, and stood in the forefront of domestic and foreign resistance during the World War I. and Článek zahrnuje poznámkový aparát pod čarou