Jaroslav Krejčı́
Biographic Data
| ID | 4586727 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jaroslav Krejčı́ |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jaroslav |
| FAMILY NAME | Krejčı́ |
| SIGNATURE | KREJCI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Paths of Civilization
This work spans the development of civilizations from their remotest origins to the present day. It examines the term 'civilization' with reference to culture, socio-economic structure, ethnicity and
Europe to AD 1500
By contrast to the earlier civilizations in the Levant, in Ancient Greece, the core country of the Olympic civilization, we find a more complex attitude to the human predicament. Although here, too, gods were important and death constituted a disturbing event in social life, neither became the object of the degree of concern that the former had generated in Mesopotamia and the latter in Egypt. On the whole, the gods in ancient Greece tended to lo…
The Varieties of the Human Condition
The human condition is here understood as being both existential (in the metaphysical context) and societal. The former, as we have seen, is the sense that people make of their life and death; the latter, the position in society, is usually determined, on the one hand, by a combination of birth, wealth, and profession (in short by social status and habitat) and, on the other hand, by gender.KeywordsHuman ConditionCore CountryCharitable ActivityCi…
Great Revolutions of the 20th Century in a Civilizational Perspective
The great revolutions of modern times have been analysed from various angles, but their civilizational aspects and contexts have on the whole been neglected. More specifically, the major 20th-century revolutions can be seen as particularly important cases of intercivilizational encounters. They represent different responses to the ascendant and challenging civilization of the West. The Western civilizational trajectory (or set of trajectories), b…
Czechoslovakia 1918-1992: A Laboratory for Social Change
Czechoslovakia, 1918–92: A Laboratory for Social Change
Following World War 1 a unique experiment in state-building took place between two closely kindred nations in Eastern Europe; an attempt to build up a composite ethnic - Czechoslovak-nation and provid
The Comparative Historical Approach as a Unifying Principle in the Humanities and the Social Sciences
The importance of comparative history for an integrated approach to the study of social phenomena is discussed, focusing on the study of society in a global perspective. Twentieth-century transformation processes in the People's Republic of China, Iran, the USSR, & Turkey illustrate
The Human Predicament: Its Changing Image: A Study in Comparative Religion and History
The Human Predicament: Its Changing Image
The Five Basic Paradigms
As has been said in the introduction, the tracing of historical roots for the views which human beings have held on their predicament and for their conceptions of life and death, cannot in our context go further back than the point in time at which there first emerge sufficiently well written sources to provide us with adequate information. We have to leave out all that the anthropologists have found concerning the views held on such matters by v…
Theocentrism in New Shape and Vigour — the Ways of Islam
In the first six hundred years of our era, the appeal of the theocentric paradigm spread all over the world, all areas of civilization in the eastern hemisphere being affected. Yet it was not genuine theocentrism which had been carried so far. Whilst theocentrism with only the modest modifications manifested in Judaism and in Zoroastrianism remained limited to the particular peoples of which Judaism and Zoroastrianism respectively became the nati…
A culture of ecumenical convergence? Reflections on the Czech experience
Ecumenism is usually understood as the aspiration to overcome rifts and schisms within the Christian body social. I shall be considering this aspect of ecumenism; but I shall also be considering the idea of ecumenism in a wider sense. It is my contention that the prospects for cooperation between people of various convictions in matters of ultimate concern are brighter now that Marxism-Leninism, with its militant opposition to religion, has left …
The Rhythm of the Far East: Reception and Adaptation
An interesting and significant feature of the Chinese and Indian civilizations was that, unlike the Levantine civilizations (especially Islam) they expanded only eastward, not westward. Though individual ideas and practices of Indian and Chinese origin found their way to the west both in the early Zoroastrian and Hellenic eras and in the later Islamic and Christian periods, it was only the nations of the Far East that adopted the religious and ph…
The Great Iranian Ventures: The Peripeties of Ahura Mazdah
In the previous chapters we touched upon a polity which intervened in the development of all the civilizations discussed so far. During the sixth century BC, Mesopotamia, Syria and Egypt became provinces of the Persian empire, the first truly universal empire of the Levant. By this act the Cuneiscript, the Pharaonic and the West Semitic civilizations were pushed a bit further on the way to dissolution, whilst the Judaic civilization received a re…
The Civilizations of Asia and the Middle East
The civilizations of Asia and the Middle East: Before the European challenge
Preface and Acknowledgements - Notes on Spelling - Introduction - The Rise of the Levant: The Cuneiscript and Pharaonic Civilisations - The Contrasts of Syria: Peoples of the Script and People of the Book - The Great Iranian Ventures: The Peripeties of Ahura Mazdah - The Ways of Islam: Integration and Disintegration - From Indus to Mekong: Between Brahma and Buddha - The Chinese Path: The Paradigm of Continuity - The Rhythm of the Far East: Recep…
Ruptures and traumas in central European consciousness: Czech history as a test case
Although the criteria of continuity OT discontinuity in history may not be precise, it is nevertheless possible, and not necessarily with hindsight, to qualify certain events as Nptures in what otherwise could be considered a continuous trend of development, Foreign conquest, revolution or far-reaching reform are recognised as the most obvious causes of such a change. A violent change is bound to produce schisms, contrasting views and evaluations…
Civilisation and social formation: A dichotomy in the quest for social systems
(1987). Civilisation and social formation: A dichotomy in the quest for social systems. History of European Ideas: Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 349-360
National minorities in Eastern Europe 1848–1945
From ideal types to multidimensional concepts: The concept of the ‘nation’ in a changing Europe
Ethnic and Political Nations in Europe
Democracy and socialism: Central Europe as a test case of their relations
Democracy and socialism are emotionally ‘loaded’ concepts. Moreover people use them in quite differing contexts. They thus describe as ‘democratic’ or ‘socialist’ situations, systems or programmes which actually have little in common. For instance, both West and East Germany claim that they are ‘democratic’ countries. East Germany even makes this claim in its official title. Its ruling party calls itself socialist just as does the party presently…
Civilization and religion
Sociology or social science
Modern sociology has set itself up as a specialised discipline dissociating itself from the broad-ranging theories of development of the early sociologists and breaking the links with economics, social anthropology and politics which had formed such an exciting unity in their works or at least in their lives
Toynbee and religion
ArnoldJ. Toynbee, An Historian's Approach to Religion, Oxford, Oxford University Press 1979, XIII + 340 pp. £6.50
Great Revolutions of the 20th Century in a Civilizational Perspective
The great revolutions of modern times have been analysed from various angles, but their civilizational aspects and contexts have on the whole been neglected. More specifically, the major 20th-century revolutions can be seen as particularly important cases of intercivilizational encounters. They represent different responses to the ascendant and challenging civilization of the West. The Western civilizational trajectory (or set of trajectories), b…
The Civilizations of Asia and the Middle East
Civilization and religion
Sociology or social science
Modern sociology has set itself up as a specialised discipline dissociating itself from the broad-ranging theories of development of the early sociologists and breaking the links with economics, social anthropology and politics which had formed such an exciting unity in their works or at least in their lives
Gross national product in the United Kingdom and Czechoslovakia. A comparative analysis
Social Change and Stratification in Postwar Czechoslovakia
Studies the concrete features of social change, especially socio-economic change, within Czechoslovak society to understand groupings according to power status
Social Change and Stratification in Postwar Czechoslovakia
Political Grouping in the Czechoslovak Reform Movement
Measurement of aggregate efficiency in the Czechoslovak economy
The Meaning of Hussitism
Religion and Anti-Religion: Experience of a Transition
The articlegivesan accountofthe confrontation between Marxism-Leninismand Christian-ity in Czechoslovakia. First the extentofsecularization of Czechsociety isfollowed and then the socio-historical conditionsfor thepossible conversion ofpopulation to an atheistic philosophy is examined. Against this background, the policy of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in these mattersisdescribed. In connection with theofficialaim to educatetheyoung gene…
Les événements imprévus de l'histoire tchécoslovaque moderne — des sujets d'étude pour la sociologie politique
Les événements auxquels l'article se réfère sont : le succès électoral des communistes en 1946 et le mouvement de réforme en 1968. L'auteur tente d'expliquer ces deux phénomènes du point de vue du changement des attitudes politiques provoqué par des causes externes et internes. La principale série de causes extérieures, qui se sont enchaînées, est liée à l'affrontement de deux puissances politiques : l'Allemagne nazie et la Russie soviétique. L'é…
Sociology or social science
Modern sociology has set itself up as a specialised discipline dissociating itself from the broad-ranging theories of development of the early sociologists and breaking the links with economics, social anthropology and politics which had formed such an exciting unity in their works or at least in their lives
Toynbee and religion
ArnoldJ. Toynbee, An Historian's Approach to Religion, Oxford, Oxford University Press 1979, XIII + 340 pp. £6.50
Democracy and socialism: Central Europe as a test case of their relations
Democracy and socialism are emotionally ‘loaded’ concepts. Moreover people use them in quite differing contexts. They thus describe as ‘democratic’ or ‘socialist’ situations, systems or programmes which actually have little in common. For instance, both West and East Germany claim that they are ‘democratic’ countries. East Germany even makes this claim in its official title. Its ruling party calls itself socialist just as does the party presently…
Civilization and religion
Ethnic and Political Nations in Europe
From ideal types to multidimensional concepts: The concept of the ‘nation’ in a changing Europe
Civilisation and social formation: A dichotomy in the quest for social systems
(1987). Civilisation and social formation: A dichotomy in the quest for social systems. History of European Ideas: Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 349-360
National minorities in Eastern Europe 1848–1945
Ruptures and traumas in central European consciousness: Czech history as a test case
Although the criteria of continuity OT discontinuity in history may not be precise, it is nevertheless possible, and not necessarily with hindsight, to qualify certain events as Nptures in what otherwise could be considered a continuous trend of development, Foreign conquest, revolution or far-reaching reform are recognised as the most obvious causes of such a change. A violent change is bound to produce schisms, contrasting views and evaluations…
The Rhythm of the Far East: Reception and Adaptation
An interesting and significant feature of the Chinese and Indian civilizations was that, unlike the Levantine civilizations (especially Islam) they expanded only eastward, not westward. Though individual ideas and practices of Indian and Chinese origin found their way to the west both in the early Zoroastrian and Hellenic eras and in the later Islamic and Christian periods, it was only the nations of the Far East that adopted the religious and ph…
The Great Iranian Ventures: The Peripeties of Ahura Mazdah
In the previous chapters we touched upon a polity which intervened in the development of all the civilizations discussed so far. During the sixth century BC, Mesopotamia, Syria and Egypt became provinces of the Persian empire, the first truly universal empire of the Levant. By this act the Cuneiscript, the Pharaonic and the West Semitic civilizations were pushed a bit further on the way to dissolution, whilst the Judaic civilization received a re…
The Civilizations of Asia and the Middle East
The civilizations of Asia and the Middle East: Before the European challenge
Preface and Acknowledgements - Notes on Spelling - Introduction - The Rise of the Levant: The Cuneiscript and Pharaonic Civilisations - The Contrasts of Syria: Peoples of the Script and People of the Book - The Great Iranian Ventures: The Peripeties of Ahura Mazdah - The Ways of Islam: Integration and Disintegration - From Indus to Mekong: Between Brahma and Buddha - The Chinese Path: The Paradigm of Continuity - The Rhythm of the Far East: Recep…
A culture of ecumenical convergence? Reflections on the Czech experience
Ecumenism is usually understood as the aspiration to overcome rifts and schisms within the Christian body social. I shall be considering this aspect of ecumenism; but I shall also be considering the idea of ecumenism in a wider sense. It is my contention that the prospects for cooperation between people of various convictions in matters of ultimate concern are brighter now that Marxism-Leninism, with its militant opposition to religion, has left …
The Human Predicament: Its Changing Image
The Five Basic Paradigms
As has been said in the introduction, the tracing of historical roots for the views which human beings have held on their predicament and for their conceptions of life and death, cannot in our context go further back than the point in time at which there first emerge sufficiently well written sources to provide us with adequate information. We have to leave out all that the anthropologists have found concerning the views held on such matters by v…
Theocentrism in New Shape and Vigour — the Ways of Islam
In the first six hundred years of our era, the appeal of the theocentric paradigm spread all over the world, all areas of civilization in the eastern hemisphere being affected. Yet it was not genuine theocentrism which had been carried so far. Whilst theocentrism with only the modest modifications manifested in Judaism and in Zoroastrianism remained limited to the particular peoples of which Judaism and Zoroastrianism respectively became the nati…
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