Cults of saints have been present in India for centuries. They constitute a psecial, as well as, typically Indian form of religiosity in which the sanctified figure has often been equated with the idea of God. Beliefs and practices associated with the saints also largely form the folk and living religion in India, where the simplistic and modern division of Indian religious world into its Hindu and Muslim parts diversifies. The goal of this article is to provide an example of local cult of the Good Sultan (Cang Sultan), found in the Western parts of the Indian state of Maharashtra, to describe the forms of local religiosity of Western Indian pastoralists (dhangars) and suggest the possible historical contexts of the Good Sultan´s cult., Dušan Deák., and Obsahuje seznam literatury
Wedding announcements constitute a specific source for the study of social history. Their beginning can be dated, in the Czech Lands, to the first half of the 19th century. The present study focuses on the analysis of the engaged couples, their origin, social standing, nationality and religion. As a basis for the research served the collection of wedding announcements preserved in the Municipal Museum of Mnichovo Hradiště; specifically analyzed were announcements from the years 1897-1918., Lenka Procházková., and Obsahuje odkazy pod čarou
Bloody Whitsuntide in the middle of June 1848 is perceived as a milestone in revolutionary years of 1848-1849. In the face of former Marxist glorification of „barricade heroes“, contemporary historiography considers this event as tragic moment that did not aid Czech national politics. and Roman Vondra.
Příspěvek je věnován posouzení významu a možnostem využití materiálů bezpečnostních služeb bývalého komunistického režimu v Československu pro práci historiků. Zvláštní pozornost je věnována svazkům bývalé Státní bezpečnosti. Na základě vlastních zkušeností a interních norem bývalé StB autor upozorňuje na možnosti i nebezpečí studia svazků jako historického pramene. Uvádí některé konkrétní příklady zpracování svazků, odkazy na možnosti zpřístupnění, údaje o zvláštnostech archivace svazků a o problému skartací. and The article judges the importance and possibilities of using records from the secret services of the former Communist régime in Czechoslovakia in historical research. He pays particular attention to the files of the former State Security Forces (Státní bezpečnost or StB). On the basis of his own experience and the internal regulations of the StB, he points to the possible pitfalls of using StB files as historical sources. He provides several specific examples of working with the files, references to the possibilities of declassification, information about particular features of the archiving of the files, and the problem of their being shredded.
Autor propojuje reflexi perzekuce v jeho vlastní rodině v komunistickém Československu zkraje padesátých let minulého století s osudem Rudolfa Margolia, jak ho vylíčil jeho syn Ivan v memoárové knize Praha za zrcadlem: Putování 20. stoletím (Praha, Argo 2007). Oddaný komunista Rudolf Margolius, po únoru 1948 náměstek ministra zahraničního obchodu, byl v roce 1952 odsouzen v procesu s „protistátním spikleneckým centrem“ Rudolfa Slánského a popraven., The author links together refl ections on persecution in his own family in Communist Czechoslovakia in the early 1950s with the fate of Rudolf Margolius as described by his son, Ivan, in the memoir-like Praha za zrcadlem: Putování 20. stoletím (Prague through the Looking-glass: Travels through the Twentieth Century; Prague: Argo, 2007). A devoted Communist and, after the February 1948 takeover, Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade, Rudolf Margolius was sentenced in the show trial of Rudolf Slánský and the alleged members of the “centre of the anti-state conspiracy” in 1952, and executed., and Memoáry