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This thesis is about the legal position and administration of the elementary institutions of three churches in the Czech Republic. These churches are significant in the Czech Christian churches and they are based on other system of administration. The aim of this thesis is to make comparison of this three systems. The thesis is composed of five chapters, each of them dealing with different church. Chapter one introduced to the problem and it presents all churches. Chapter two is about parishes of Catholic Church, which is controled by a episcopal papal system of administration. In the Czech Republic is the most dominant Roman branch of church. The thesis react with this fact and the first part is mostly about this branch, only one chapter is about the other branches of this church. This chapter consists of eight parts. The first part is about the legal position of parishes, second part is about establishment, termination and change of parishes. The third and fourth parts are about the position of priests (third part is about parish priests, fourth part is about other priests in the parish) and the fifth part is about councils in the parish. Sixth part of this chapter describes the administration of property. Seventh part introduces to other legal persons and the last part introduces to the system...

Contradizendo os pressupostos iniciais do sionismo, após pouco mais de 60 anos da fundação do Estado de Israel, a vida judaica na diáspora não findou, e foram desenvolvidos novos padrões de relacionamento entre as comunidades judaicas e o Estado de Israel. O presente trabalho analisa percepções e atitudes da comunidade judaica de São Paulo. Buscou-se verificar o modo como esta comunidade elabora, confere significado simbólico e prático e mantém o vínculo à distância com Israel por meio de suas principais instituições. Para isso, foram analisadas notícias, editoriais e artigos do jornal Tribuna Judaica ao logo de um período de cinco anos de janeiro de 2006 a dezembro de 2010. Também foram realizadas entrevistas semiestruturadas com dirigentes das entidades judaicas mais importantes e com representantes do Estado de Israel. Verificamos que os vínculos entre a comunidade judaica de São Paulo e o Estado de Israel são organizados e mantidos por um núcleo institucional relativamente pequeno, e reforçados por representantes do governo israelense que, periodicamente, visitam o Brasil. Para a comunidade judaica de São Paulo, viagens a Israel de curta ou longa duração também são importantes na aproximação com o país. Constatamos ainda que o vínculo com o Estado de Israel tornou-se parte indissociável da identidade da maioria dos judeus. Porém, verificamos que a percepção comunitária sobre o Estado de Israel é marcadamente idealizada, mítica, e anacrônica. Idealizada e mítica, pois está distante da realidade empírica apresentada em pesquisas desenvolvidas por historiadores, sociólogos, antropólogos, cientistas políticos e jornalistas daquele país. Anacrônico, pois a sociedade israelense é concebida como aquela de outrora, pré-quebra de consensos do sionismo hegemônico, formulado e cristalizado pelas elites ashkenazitas até a década de 1990. Disputas e conflitos internos, notadamente étnicos e religiosos, cada vez mais acirrados, são minimizados, assim como a herança dos judeus de origem oriental, de outros imigrantes judeus e não judeus e da população árabe nativa na formação da identidade israelense atual. Podemos destacar também que, apesar de o Brasil não apresentar tradição antissemita, o fato de grande parte dos membros da comunidade judaica brasileira atual serem refugiados ou descendentes de refugiados, isto é, marcados por memórias de perseguição e fuga no passado, como o é também a própria história judaica, faz com que o presente seja encarado com desconfiança e incerteza. O Estado de Israel é visto como um porto seguro contra o antissemitismo e, portanto, sua defesa nos fóruns políticos e diplomáticos locais adquire contornos de uma luta pela sobrevivência individual (de cada judeu) e coletiva (do povo judeu), não importando se os judeus estão na diáspora ou no Estado de Israel. Finalmente, percebemos que se, por um lado, a comunidade judaica possui laços fraternos com o Estado de Israel, por outro, não deixa de desenvolver sentimentos nacionalistas em relação ao Brasil ou de se integrar no sistema de poder local. / Contradicting the initial assumptions of Zionism, after more than 60 years since the founding of the State of Israel, Jewish life in the Diaspora has not ended, and new patterns of relationship between the Jewish communities and the State of Israel has been developed. This study examines perceptions and attitudes of the Jewish community of São Paulo. We sought to ascertain how this community develops, provides practical and symbolic significance and keeps the long-distance bond with Israel through its main institutions. To achieve this aim, we analyzed news, editorials and articles of the newspaper Tribuna Judaica during a period of five years from January 2006 to December 2010. We also conducted semi-structured interviews with leaders of major Jewish organizations and representatives of the State of Israel. Weve found that the ties between the Jewish community of São Paulo and the State of Israel are organized and maintained by a relatively small institutional core, and reinforced by representatives of the Israeli government that periodically visit Brazil. For the Jewish community of São Paulo, short- or long-term trips to Israel are also important in approaching the country. Weve also acknowledged that the bond with the State of Israel has become an integral part of the identity of most Jews. However, we noticed that the community perception of the State of Israel is remarkably idealized, mythical, and anachronistic. Idealized and mythical, as it is far from the reality presented in empirical research by historians, sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists and journalists from that country. Anachronistic, because Israeli society is conceived as that of yore, pre-breakdown of hegemonic Zionism consensus, which was crystallized and formulated by the Ashkenazi elites till the 1990s. Disputes and internal conflicts, especially ethnic and religious, increasingly fierce, are minimized, as well as the heritage of the Jews of Eastern origin, other Jewish and non-Jewish immigrants and the native Arab population in the shaping of Israeli identity. It can also be pointed out that, although Brazil does not have an anti-Semitic tradition, the fact that much of the members of the Brazilian Jewish community are refugees or descendants of refugees, in other words, are marked by memories of persecution and escape in the past, as Jewish history itself, makes them face the present with uncertainty and mistrust. The State of Israel is seen as a safe haven against anti-Semitism, and thus its defense in the local political and diplomatic forums acquires contours of a struggle for individual survival (of each Jew) and collective (of the Jewish people), regardless of whether these Jews are living in the diaspora or in State of Israel. Ultimately, we notice that if on the one hand, the Jewish community has fraternal ties with the State of Israel, on the other, it does not fail to develop nationalistic feelings towards Brazil or to integrate into the local system of power.

Contradizendo os pressupostos iniciais do sionismo, após pouco mais de 60 anos da fundação do Estado de Israel, a vida judaica na diáspora não findou, e foram desenvolvidos novos padrões de relacionamento entre as comunidades judaicas e o Estado de Israel. O presente trabalho analisa percepções e atitudes da comunidade judaica de São Paulo. Buscou-se verificar o modo como esta comunidade elabora, confere significado simbólico e prático e mantém o vínculo à distância com Israel por meio de suas principais instituições. Para isso, foram analisadas notícias, editoriais e artigos do jornal Tribuna Judaica ao logo de um período de cinco anos de janeiro de 2006 a dezembro de 2010. Também foram realizadas entrevistas semiestruturadas com dirigentes das entidades judaicas mais importantes e com representantes do Estado de Israel. Verificamos que os vínculos entre a comunidade judaica de São Paulo e o Estado de Israel são organizados e mantidos por um núcleo institucional relativamente pequeno, e reforçados por representantes do governo israelense que, periodicamente, visitam o Brasil. Para a comunidade judaica de São Paulo, viagens a Israel de curta ou longa duração também são importantes na aproximação com o país. Constatamos ainda que o vínculo com o Estado de Israel tornou-se parte indissociável da identidade da maioria dos judeus. Porém, verificamos que a percepção comunitária sobre o Estado de Israel é marcadamente idealizada, mítica, e anacrônica. Idealizada e mítica, pois está distante da realidade empírica apresentada em pesquisas desenvolvidas por historiadores, sociólogos, antropólogos, cientistas políticos e jornalistas daquele país. Anacrônico, pois a sociedade israelense é concebida como aquela de outrora, pré-quebra de consensos do sionismo hegemônico, formulado e cristalizado pelas elites ashkenazitas até a década de 1990. Disputas e conflitos internos, notadamente étnicos e religiosos, cada vez mais acirrados, são minimizados, assim como a herança dos judeus de origem oriental, de outros imigrantes judeus e não judeus e da população árabe nativa na formação da identidade israelense atual. Podemos destacar também que, apesar de o Brasil não apresentar tradição antissemita, o fato de grande parte dos membros da comunidade judaica brasileira atual serem refugiados ou descendentes de refugiados, isto é, marcados por memórias de perseguição e fuga no passado, como o é também a própria história judaica, faz com que o presente seja encarado com desconfiança e incerteza. O Estado de Israel é visto como um porto seguro contra o antissemitismo e, portanto, sua defesa nos fóruns políticos e diplomáticos locais adquire contornos de uma luta pela sobrevivência individual (de cada judeu) e coletiva (do povo judeu), não importando se os judeus estão na diáspora ou no Estado de Israel. Finalmente, percebemos que se, por um lado, a comunidade judaica possui laços fraternos com o Estado de Israel, por outro, não deixa de desenvolver sentimentos nacionalistas em relação ao Brasil ou de se integrar no sistema de poder local. / Contradicting the initial assumptions of Zionism, after more than 60 years since the founding of the State of Israel, Jewish life in the Diaspora has not ended, and new patterns of relationship between the Jewish communities and the State of Israel has been developed. This study examines perceptions and attitudes of the Jewish community of São Paulo. We sought to ascertain how this community develops, provides practical and symbolic significance and keeps the long-distance bond with Israel through its main institutions. To achieve this aim, we analyzed news, editorials and articles of the newspaper Tribuna Judaica during a period of five years from January 2006 to December 2010. We also conducted semi-structured interviews with leaders of major Jewish organizations and representatives of the State of Israel. Weve found that the ties between the Jewish community of São Paulo and the State of Israel are organized and maintained by a relatively small institutional core, and reinforced by representatives of the Israeli government that periodically visit Brazil. For the Jewish community of São Paulo, short- or long-term trips to Israel are also important in approaching the country. Weve also acknowledged that the bond with the State of Israel has become an integral part of the identity of most Jews. However, we noticed that the community perception of the State of Israel is remarkably idealized, mythical, and anachronistic. Idealized and mythical, as it is far from the reality presented in empirical research by historians, sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists and journalists from that country. Anachronistic, because Israeli society is conceived as that of yore, pre-breakdown of hegemonic Zionism consensus, which was crystallized and formulated by the Ashkenazi elites till the 1990s. Disputes and internal conflicts, especially ethnic and religious, increasingly fierce, are minimized, as well as the heritage of the Jews of Eastern origin, other Jewish and non-Jewish immigrants and the native Arab population in the shaping of Israeli identity. It can also be pointed out that, although Brazil does not have an anti-Semitic tradition, the fact that much of the members of the Brazilian Jewish community are refugees or descendants of refugees, in other words, are marked by memories of persecution and escape in the past, as Jewish history itself, makes them face the present with uncertainty and mistrust. The State of Israel is seen as a safe haven against anti-Semitism, and thus its defense in the local political and diplomatic forums acquires contours of a struggle for individual survival (of each Jew) and collective (of the Jewish people), regardless of whether these Jews are living in the diaspora or in State of Israel. Ultimately, we notice that if on the one hand, the Jewish community has fraternal ties with the State of Israel, on the other, it does not fail to develop nationalistic feelings towards Brazil or to integrate into the local system of power.

La communauté mouride du Sénégal et de la diaspora est un groupe socioreligieux né dans les zones rurales avec une culture traditionnelle basée sur les pratiques religieuses. La confrérie mue en communauté, à ses débuts, a su faire preuve d’une capacité d’adaptation dans les zones les plus hostiles à sa progression, mais elle a également fait montre d’une ouverture intéressante (en termes d’analyse) tout en conservant ses principes de bases. Ce qui lui confère un caractère particulier dans l’univers confrérique du Sénégal et de l’Afrique de manière générale. Cette particularité réside à la fois dans la fidélité de ses principes islamiques et dans le perpétuel mouvement d’ouverture vers d’autres cultures et d’autres espaces. L’évolution de cette communauté l’a amené à investir de nouveaux espaces urbains avec comme corollaire, l’appropriation des médias informatisés pour appuyer certaines pratiques de la tradition. La recherche que nous proposons ici cherche à comprendre les pratiques traditionnelles, médiatiques des mourides et les métamorphoses opérées au sein de la confrérie. D’abord, nous questionnons les différents mécanismes de la tradition mouride et les changements opérés, ensuite la circulation des textes, c’est-à-dire les changements de support de l’écriture et de la littérature mourides à travers différents espaces, enfin les transformations médiatiques occasionnées dans les modes de participation et de communication de la communauté L’étude portant sur le mouridisme a permis de saisir et de comprendre les mécanismes des pratiques religieuses, traditionnelles, culturelles et médiatiques à travers des espaces et des contextes divers. De l’étude de ce groupe socioreligieux se dégagent de nombreux points. Il y a l’émergence d’une communauté forte, c’est-à-dire la construction de liens sociaux très particuliers dans le temps long. Ce qui aboutit à des conceptions partagées, élucidées, transmises et instituées du savoir et de la croyance. Il y a aussi l’institution des dispositifs, rituels et protocoles de communication liés à de conventions connues et garanties. Les échanges en réseau ont occasionné des transformations médiatiques qui révèlent de la réappropriation des mourides à travers les différents dispositifs de médiation numérique. Ils symbolisent en eux l’orientation de la communauté vers de nouvelles pratiques médiatiques garantissant un accès plus rapide aux contenus. Les transformations médiatiques ont occasionné d’autres modes de participation et suggèrent de nouveaux rapports entre le disciple et sa communauté / The Mouride community of Senegal and the diaspora is a socioreligious group that arose in rural areas, and that possesses a traditional culture based on religious practice. The brotherhood become community, from its earliest days, showed a capacity for adaptation in contexts hostile to its progress, but also manifested a significant openness, while maintaining its essential principles. All of which conferred on the Mourides a particular character within the context of the Muslim brotherhoods of Senegal and of Africa generally. This particularity resides in Mouridism’s simultaneous fidelity to its own Islamic principles and to a perpetual openness to other cultures and other spaces. The evolution of the community led to its occupation of new urban spaces and, as a corollary, to the adoption of digital media in the service of certain traditional practices. The research proposed here seeks to develop an understanding of the traditional and mediatic practices of the Mourides and the metamorphoses effected within the brotherhood. Initially, we interrogate the different mechanisms of the Mouride tradition and subsequent changes; then, the circulation of texts, i.e. the evolution of the technical supports of Mouride writing and literature across different spaces; and finally, the resulting transformations by media of the means of participation and communication within the community. This study of Mouridism allows us to delineate and understand the mechanisms of religious, traditional, cultural, et media practices across varied spaces and contexts. The study of this socioreligious group brings to light a number of significant points related to the emergence of a strong community, i.e. the long term construction of very specific social ties. These result in the development, transmission, and adoption of shared conceptions of knowledge and belief as well as the adoption of ritual systems and protocols of communication based on shared and assured social conventions. Networked communications have lead to mediatic transformations that reveal a reappropriation by Mourides through a variety of digital media systems. These symbolize the community’s reorientation toward new media practices that assure more rapid access to content. These media transformations have made possible new modes of participation and have suggested the possibility of new relationships between the disciple and his community

The thesis "Spiritual Accompanying in a Salesian Religious Community" is first trying to map out some possible concepts of the spiritual accompanying in a view of contemporary authors and then to show on the basis of ecclesiastical documents its place in the religious community (1st chapter). After that it deals with the manner of spiritual accompanying in the tradition of the salesian charism, specifically how it was realized by the founders - John Bosco (2nd chapter) and Mary Dominica Mazzarello (3rd chapter). On the basis of a previous, with regard to the current documents of The Daughters of Mary Help of Christian Institute and the teachings of its superiors, and considering the situation of the world today, the thesis points out some aspects which seem to be actual for the salesian style of accompanying today (4th chapter).

Mon mémoire propose un portrait ethnographique de la congrégation juive reconstructionniste Dorshei Emet à travers l’analyse combinée des rituels et des discours des membres. Les rituels proposés à la congrégation transmettent la philosophie reconstructionniste et un éthos que les membres s’approprient de différentes façons. Pour plusieurs membres qui ne croient pas en Dieu ou qui sont agnostiques, le rituel devient l’expression d’un lien à la tradition juive à travers la vie communautaire. De fait, le rôle de la communauté religieuse dans la vie quotidienne de ses membres ainsi que leur rôle en son sein seront analysés. L’intérêt est avant tout de saisir la valeur que les membres attribuent à leur participation aux rituels. Une attention particulière sera également portée au sens que le religieux a eu dans leurs trajectoires personnelles jusqu’à aujourd’hui. Ce mémoire participe au tableau de la diversité au sein du judaïsme québécois, mais aussi plus largement au portrait global de la diversité religieuse au Québec. / My thesis offers an ethnographic portrait of the Jewish Reconstructionist congregation Dorshei Emet through a combined analysis of rituals and members discourses. Dorshei Emet rituals transmit the reconstructionist philosophy and a certain ethos to its attendees, who assimilate them in various ways. For some members who do not believe in God or who are agnostics, ritual becomes the expression of a connexion to Jewish tradition through community life. Accordingly, I will analyze the religious community’s role in its members' everyday lives and the role of the members in it. Above all, the aim is to apprehend the value that members attribute to their participation to rituals. Special attention will also be given to the meaning that religion has had in members' life trajectories. This thesis contributes to efforts to give account of diversity among Jews in Quebec, and more generally, to advance our knowledge of religious diversity in Quebec.

Mon mémoire propose un portrait ethnographique de la congrégation juive reconstructionniste Dorshei Emet à travers l’analyse combinée des rituels et des discours des membres. Les rituels proposés à la congrégation transmettent la philosophie reconstructionniste et un éthos que les membres s’approprient de différentes façons. Pour plusieurs membres qui ne croient pas en Dieu ou qui sont agnostiques, le rituel devient l’expression d’un lien à la tradition juive à travers la vie communautaire. De fait, le rôle de la communauté religieuse dans la vie quotidienne de ses membres ainsi que leur rôle en son sein seront analysés. L’intérêt est avant tout de saisir la valeur que les membres attribuent à leur participation aux rituels. Une attention particulière sera également portée au sens que le religieux a eu dans leurs trajectoires personnelles jusqu’à aujourd’hui. Ce mémoire participe au tableau de la diversité au sein du judaïsme québécois, mais aussi plus largement au portrait global de la diversité religieuse au Québec. / My thesis offers an ethnographic portrait of the Jewish Reconstructionist congregation Dorshei Emet through a combined analysis of rituals and members discourses. Dorshei Emet rituals transmit the reconstructionist philosophy and a certain ethos to its attendees, who assimilate them in various ways. For some members who do not believe in God or who are agnostics, ritual becomes the expression of a connexion to Jewish tradition through community life. Accordingly, I will analyze the religious community’s role in its members' everyday lives and the role of the members in it. Above all, the aim is to apprehend the value that members attribute to their participation to rituals. Special attention will also be given to the meaning that religion has had in members' life trajectories. This thesis contributes to efforts to give account of diversity among Jews in Quebec, and more generally, to advance our knowledge of religious diversity in Quebec.

Cette étude d’une association musulmane de Montréal explore, à travers le concept de communauté en sciences sociales, les dynamiques religieuses et sociales animant la vie des membres de l’association Bel Agir, où une enquête de terrain de plus de six mois a été effectuée. Composée en majorité d’anciens membres d’un mouvement islamiste non violent marocain et entièrement de migrants, l’association offre un espace où sont articulées les continuités et les discontinuités dans la vie religieuse et sociale de ses membres. Ainsi, notre mémoire examine en partie le rôle de la communauté religieuse dans le processus migratoire de ses membres. Par contre, notre analyse se focalise essentiellement sur le rôle de la participation des membres à la vie de la communauté dans les processus d’intériorisation de l’éthos religieux supporté par le groupe, et de réarticulation de ce même éthos dans la société québécoise. Ce faisant, nous explorons ce qui motive les membres à s’investir dans la communauté et à intégrer les enseignements du groupe dans leur vie individuelle. / My study of a Montreal Muslim association draws on the concept of community in social sciences to explore the social and religious dynamics of the Bel Agir association, where I conducted fieldwork for more than six months. Composed mainly of former members of a non violent Moroccan Islamist movement and entirely of migrants, the association offers a space where continuity and discontinuity in its members social and religious life is articulated. My analysis examines, in part, the role of the religious community in the immigration and settlement process. However at the principal aim of my thesis is to understand how the involvement of members in the association contributes to internalizing a specifically Muslim ethos and how, in return, their participation in the community articulates this ethos with the social context of Québec. In doing so, I offer an analysis of what motivate members to integrate to the community and apply the teachings of the group to their individual lives.