Until now among the works catalogue of the harpist and composer Elias Perish Alvars there was no trace of a composition called " Grande Fantasie sur des Airs Nationaux Anglais" for solo harp. We have found it in the library archive of the Czech Museum of Music in Prague: it is a manuscript autographed by the composer, dated 1843 and never publishe before.The main section of the dissertation regards the manuscript itself. The studying of it has been faced from a formal, harmonic, stylistic and historic point of view. After an introduction about the "Fantasia" every air is examined in detail, without leaving out the historic information behind every section. The most important part is then the critical edition of the manuscript that respects very carefully all the indications made by Parish Alvars in person.After a section to the enchanting figure of the composer, his life, works and the period he had lived in, the work gives references also to the double action pedal harp that had the main role in the harp music harp since its patent of 18140. The "Grande Fantasie" interesting discovery is composition and we are glad to present it in this dissertation work.

This pastoral theological work is focused on clarification of the identity of deacon service and the permanent deacons' placement in the Czech and Moravian parishes, regarding to the Catholic Church at the beginning of the 21st century. The starting point of this work is the historical development of the diaconate and its theological reflection. The current situation of the Czech Particular Churches is, with all the respect, very specific and not sufficiently described yet. That is why I've partly focused on the empirical research (2011 and 2012) where I was searching for answers to the fundamental questions concerning the identity of the diaconate as a connection to the historical and theological part of my work. The target group of respondents was consisted of parishioners, priests, bishops, and deacons who had been active in parish pastoral work. The empirical research has revealed some positive and negative aspects associated with this sacramental service and helped to suggest some changes to the pastoral involvement of the permanent deacons in the Czech Republic. As a result of this research, the deacon service is truly an important part of the sacramental life in the Church and it is indispensable. However, concerning its true identity, surely it is more than important to seek and create specific space for the role of permanent deacons in such a way that their positions don't play only a vicarious role, as we experience these days. The theses that have come out of this work might help partialy to solve this problem.

This thesis deals with history of the Volyně vicariate, focusing on the second half of the 19th century and first half of the 20th century. The thesis is divided into three major chapters which describe history of Volyně vicariate from various points of view. Chapter 1 is dedicated to archival sources which were used to obtain data for the purpose of this thesis. Archival collections of parish offices or vicar offices are introduced in this chapter, as well as wide range of usage of district office´s archival resources. All of these may be used as a source of knowledge on ecclesiastical administration. Beside this, three types of archival documents are analysed and described in this chapter - parish chronicles, visitation documents of canonical visitations, inventory of church and parish property. Chapter 2 aims to depict both movable assets and real estate in the Volyně vicariate´s parishes. Building development and reconstructions of churches and parishes in the Volyně vicariate are described in this chapter as well as equipment of churches, such as items made of metal, choir robes, bells and organs. Chapter 3 deals with clerics of the Volyně vicariate. The objective of this chapter is to introduce variedness of the parish priest´s work, duties of a chaplain and accustom of both clergymen. Duties of vicar office are also defined and specified in this chapter. The thesis also contains introduction, conclusion, bibliography, reference list and the concise history of the Volyně vicariate. At the very end of this thesis there are charts and graphs making particular chapters complete.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:25:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ThiagoNT.pdf: 774010 bytes, checksum: b38e7bd15e0122d23eeaefc55cd05daf (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-08-17 / The abandonment of newborn children is a reality nowadays. This reality enables us to discuss this issue in other temporalities, in all kinds of societies. Thus, this work aims to demonstrate how the population that lived at Freguesia de Nossa Senhora da Apresenta??o, a civil parish at a Rio Grande do Norte captaincy, socially placed the abandoned newborn during in the eighteenth century. These newborn were called exposed ones at the time and were inserted in a regional Exposed Circle. The research also discussed how the local Council assembly sheltered these newborn. For research development the following manuscript documents were used: baptism, wedding and demise documents at Freguesia de Nossa Senhora da Apresenta??o as well as the first Book of Records if the matrix church at this civil parish. The research also considered the terms of the Council assembly. Some printed documents were used such as Philippine Ordainments, the First Constitutions of the Archbishop in 1707 including the Lunario contents as well as texts from Andr? Jo?o Antonil and Henry Koster. In the analysis reference work related to Social History was used. Thus, it is possible confirm that there was construction of socially accepted places for these exposed on behalf of the colonist at the region / O abandono de crian?as rec?m-nascidas ? uma realidade do tempo presente. Por?m esta realidade nos possibilita discutir a tem?tica em outras temporalidades, nas mais diferentes sociedades. Sendo assim, o objetivo de nosso trabalho ? demonstrar como os moradores da Freguesia de Nossa Senhora da Apresenta??o, localizada na capitania do Rio Grande do Norte, durante o s?culo XVIII, inseriram socialmente as crian?as rec?m-nascidas abandonadas, denominadas na ?poca de expostos, a partir da inexist?ncia de uma Roda dos expostos na regi?o, como tamb?m a omiss?o dos membros da C?mara de vereadores no processo de amparo. Para o desenvolvimento da pesquisa foram utilizados os seguintes documentos: os Livros de batismo, casamento e ?bito da freguesia de Nossa Senhora da Apresenta??o, o Primeiro Livro de Tombo da igreja matriz da mesma freguesia, e os Termos de verea??o da C?mara da cidade do Natal. Todo este conjunto comp?e o corpus de documentos manuscritos. Seguido destes, tamb?m foram analisados alguns documentos impressos, como, as Ordena??es Filipinas, as Constitui??es Primeiras do Arcebispado da Bahia de 1707, incluindo o conte?do do Lun?rio, os textos de Andr? Jo?o Antonil e Henry Koster. No desenvolvimento da an?lise utilizamos referenciais ligados ? Hist?ria Social. Assim, constatamos a constru??o por parte dos colonos da freguesia de lugares socialmente aceitos para os expostos da regi?o

The Diploma Work deals with the history and development of Milevsko pastoral region. The Work has two parts. The first part deals with the history of invidual parochial Communities. It covers the era from the Communities formation, paying slight attention to preformation time, up to the second world war. The second part covers the time period from the second world war up to the year 1989. It deals with Milevsko pastoral region as the whole, its development is put in time context and individual events are linked to individual localities of the region. There are following parishes in Milevsko pastoral region: Milevsko, Nadějkov, Sepekov, Hodušín, Opařany, Květov, Lašovice, Kostelec nad Vltavou, Bernartice, Veselíčko, Stádlec, Rataje, Kovářov, Předbořice, Chyšky, Jistebnice and Klučenice.

Paris sous les premiers Bourbons voit fleurir nombre d'édifices religieux, parmi eux, les églises paroissiales forment un cas à part. Édifice de culte dévolu à un territoire urbain, l'église paroissiale est édifiée et financée par un maître d'ouvrage aux multiples facettes, aux intérêts parfois contradictoires : marguilliers, curés et paroissiens. Tenu par des contraintes financières spécifiques au cas paroissial, le chantier de ces églises doit s’insérer dans la comptabilité des fabriques et dans le quotidien des paroissiens pendant de nombreuses décennies. Les chantiers de construction ou reconstruction totales sont l’objet de cette étude : Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas (1630 – vers 1690), Saint-Sulpice (1646 – vers 1791), Saint-Roch (1633 et 1653 – 1740), Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet (1656 – vers 1720), Saint-Louis-en-l’Île (1656 – vers 1735), et Sainte-Marguerite (à partir de 1624). L’établissement du projet, qu'il soit d'ensemble ou partiel, commence parfois longtemps avant le début des travaux et la consécration de l'église ne signifie pas toujours l'achèvement du gros œuvre. Du projet aux adjonctions finales (façade, chapelles, etc.), en passant par le creusement des fondations ou encore les suspensions des travaux, le chantier paroissial révèle un aspect pérenne, qui le distingue des autres chantiers de son temps. Ces églises sont néanmoins mises en œuvre selon les techniques et avec les matériaux communément utilisés à l’époque dans le bassin parisien et par des artisans nombreux, bien que mal documentés. À travers la restitution des différentes phases du chantier, c'est l'histoire de la construction moderne qui trouve ici un visage. / Paris under the first Bourbons is a flourishing time for religious building, amongt which parish churches form a category of their own. As worships related to a urban territory, parish churches are funded and built by many-faceted clients, with sometimes conflicting interests : marguilliers, priests, parishioners. Held by financial constraints specific to their case, projects for these churches needed to adjust to the accounts of factories and to the day-to-day activity of parishioners, for decades. Projects of buildfing or total rebuilding are the subject of this study : Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas (1630 – c.1690), Saint-Sulpice (1646 –c.1791), Saint-Roch (1633 and 1653 – 1740), Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet (1656 – c.1720), Saint-Louis-en-l’Île (1656 – vers 1735), and Sainte-Marguerite (from 1624). Establishing the project, whether it is global or partial, sometimes precede the start of the construction by far, and the church’s consecration does not always mean that the shell has been finished. From the project until the final adjunctions (façade, chapel, etc.) through the digging of foundations or discontinuations of work, the process of parish building reveals a permanent aspect, on perpetual renewal. However, these churches are built with techniques and materials of common use at the time in the Parisian basin, by a great number of craftmen, although not well documented.Through the restitution of the different stemps of the project, a face is given to history of modern construction.

S’insérant dans l’ample débat sur la sécularisation, cette étude se focalise sur les modalités actuelles de coexistence, dans un contexte donné, de la sécularisation et de la dé-sécularisation qui se rencontrent et s’agencent parfois sur un mode insolite, générant nécessairement, à travers un processus de décomposition et de recomposition du religieux, des conséquences sur l’action des individus et sur les dynamiques collectives. À travers une approche ethnographique basée sur le principe de l’interconnaissance, sur la technique de l’observation participante et sur de nombreux entretiens en profondeur, l’enquête sonde les changements en acte à l’intérieur d’un univers rural qui remodèle actuellement les espaces et les formes de son système de croyances religieuses. Le terrain d’étude qui fait l’objet de notre enquête est une petite vallée de l’Italie centro-septentrionale (la Garfagnana) et la paroisse revêt le rôle de principal centre d’observation. Effectivement, dans le contexte considéré, cette institution apparait, au cours des siècles, comme un point de repèreessentiel non seulement pour la communauté religieuse mais aussi pour la société civile, et demeure l’instrument privilégié qu’utilise l’Église afin de maintenir et/ou de recréer le réseau de liens avec ses fidèles. L’analyse des dynamiques à travers lesquelles ces rapports sont conservés, créés et alimentés à l’intérieur de la communauté paroissiale nous mène à la compréhension de l’identité catholique de cette région singulière en mettant en évidence les modalités et les conséquences du croire – sur le plan tant individuel que collectif − ainsi que les motivations des différentescatégories d’acteurs. / This study, included in the wider debate regarding the secularisation process, mainly focuses on the ways in which nowadays secularisation and de-secularisation can coexist in a specific context, convening, at times adding to each other, and thus generating, through a process of decomposition and recomposition of the sacred, unavoidable consequences on individual actions and collective dynamics. Through an ethnographic approach, based on inter-knowledge, on participant observation techniques and on numerous in-depth interviews, the research examines the ongoing changes within a transitioning rural universe, which is remodelling spaces and structures of its religious belief system. The research was carried out in a small valley in Northern Italy (Garfagnana) and the main focus of the study was the parish. In this context, this institution has been over the centuries an important reference point, not only for the religious universe but also for the civil community and still today represents the privileged means by which the church creates and maintains the networkof bonds with its worshippers. The analysis of the dynamics by which , within a parish community, these bonds are preserved, recreated and nurtured has led us towards understanding the catholic identity of this particular region, highlighting the modalities, the motivations and the consequences of religious beliefs, on both an individual and collective level, of the many categories of participants.

The thesis is engaged with making documentation of the parish building of the Roman Catholic Church in the South – Moravian village Pavlov. The purpose of this work is practical measuring of the object in the terrain using geodetic methods, calculation of the measured values and the following performance of designs for the appropriate reconstruction of historic building. The text section describes the various preparatory, surveying and office works. The main output of this work is design documentation. It includes a thematic map of the building area, drawing floor plans of the first, second floor and roof truss, fasade views and sections of the building.

The existence of the Lesotho Evangelical Church in Southern Africa (LECSA) or Paris Evangelical Missionary Society (PEMS) in the Western Areas of Johannesburg, South Western Township (Soweto) and more poignantly, Meadowlands and their forced removals experience is succinctly captured. The struggle of the LECSA/PEMS Meadowlands Parish in becoming a missional ecclesia in a sea of missional challenges in her context are vividly spelt out. They, inter alia, include constitutional matters, language policy, finances, ministerial preparation, lay-ministry development, institutionalisation of ministry, unity issues, prophetic ministry, mission and evangelism. The researcher, then, proposes an intervention – of course not a perfect one – that perhaps will galvanise the LECSA/PEMS Meadowlands Parish members to improve on what they have been doing and become a missional ecclesia in her context, Meadowlands. / Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2016. / tm2016 / Science of Religion and Missiology / MA / Unrestricted

In its first part, the present thesis deals with the history and development of the deacon service in Church. It consists of distinguishing of terms such as marriage, priesthood, celibacy and diaconate. Furthermore, it deals with the role and the importance of clergymen celibacy and the development of the ecclesiastical attitude towards women. The second part focuses on the impact of the deacon service on the family life of the permanent deacons and it examines the way it is perceived by their wives. The findings are based on the results of questionnaires and they are subsequently arranged into individual sections. The sections consist of the parts called "I (deacon's wife)" - "Children" - "Parish" - "Clergy". The aim of the thesis was gained with the assessment and the classification of the research results based on questionnaires and their subsequent presentation. The presentation conducts a survey of the situation in such families from the perspective of the permanent deacons' wives, in other words, it charts the situation of the families whose father is a permanent deacon.