http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/96262 Issue 1 Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:02:43 GMT 2026-04-07T18:02:43Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/97151 Współczesny zikr: Różne oblicza sudańskiej ekspresji religijnej; Contemporary dhikr: Various Presentations of Sudan Religious Expresions; ; ; This article describes the dhikr practices in the Northern Sudan. It consists in various ecstatic prayers, dances, songs and litanies, in which God’s names are being repeated many times. These practices are well known all over the Muslim world. While in Europe they are popular called “dervish dances”. First, the role and fundamental — “classical” elements of the ritual are explained — in context of Muslim world and the Sudan alike. Afterwards the description of the dhikr is presented. The author — both being eye-witness of these practices and conducting interviews about them, gives descriptions of two different versions of the rite. In the second part of the article there is a confrontation of common and dissimilar items of both practices and a try for their interpretation. The text shows a complex role and different contexts of the dhikr in religious life of Sudanese society. It also portrays different forms, which this rite can adobe and strength of its expression. Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/97151 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/97150 Bordeland and New Localism ; ; One of the most apparent effect of globalization processes is the opposite process called glocalism, glocalisation or a new localism. The borderland became the site of the revival of regional identity and regaining the local tradition. The notion of the borderland, as applied in studies of culture, is equivocal and its comprehension is much wider then its hitherto territorial meaning. Borderlands are perceived today as places of incommensurable inconsistencies, as zones of cultural interconnections where processes of cultural melting of styles occurs. It causes that anthropologists involved in the subject refers not only to the idea of territorially located culture. Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/97150 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/97046 Nový svět v české literatuře 16. století; THE NEW WORLD IN CZECH LITERATURE OF 16TH CENTURY; ; ; The fact that America as an exotic curiosity formed an important part of Czech knowledge of the near and more distant world of the period is illustrated on particular examples of three Czech 16th century works dealing with the New World and its inhabitants — Mikuláš Bakalář’s work On the New World (1506), Czech Cosmography by Zikmund of Púchov (1554), and the Czech translation of the work History of the Voyage to America, Called Also Brasilia by Jean de Léry (1590). The article is complemented by a rich bibliography referring to particular individual phenomena Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/97046 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/96933 „Italský žánr“ Leopolda Pollaka a jeho pražské přijetí; LEOPOLD POLLAK’S “ITALIAN GENRE PAINTINGS” AND ITS RECEPTION IN PRAGUE ; ; This article refers about painter Leopold Pollak (1806–1880), a native of Bohemia and Roman resident, and it primarily focuses on Pollak’s most significant work — the “Italian Genre Paintings.“ At the time, Italian Genre Paintings was a rather popular form of art across Europe, and Pollak would introduce this style to the people of Prague at annual expositions organized by the local art society Krasoumná jednota pro Čechy. The article uses information now available — still largely scattered in various sources — pertaining to Pollak’s work. Therefore, this text looks to information about Pollak’s art in private collections and galleries, but it also makes use of contemporary publications that covered the public’s reaction to Pollak’s paintings. To best analyze the reception of Pollak’s art in Prague, this article first touches on the following two issues: the specifics and concise history of Italian Genre Paintings in the mid-nineteenth century with an emphasis on the cultural environment in France; and the reception of painted italics and the Italian Genre Paintings at annual art exhibitions in Prague during Pollak’s time. The text then discusses the career of Leopold Pollak, him being the only true Italian genre specialist among painters hailing from Bohemia. The contemporary publications covering the public’s reaction to the paintings Pollak would send toPrague from Italy between 1835 and 1856 (or rather 1869) are also examined. The reception in Prague was at its warmest in the late 1830s and in the 1840s, but cooled down in the mid-nineteenth century.The contemporary publications are compared with Pollak’s works known from public collections and art auctions. The article concludes that Pollak’s oeuvre was at its best during the peak of the ItalianGenre Paintings across Europe. Pollak, a pioneer of the genre in Prague, enriched the painting style by adding a new dimension with the local Prague audience in mind. Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/96933 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z