https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14178/898 2026-07-05T17:58:19Z https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14178/3821 The Role of Identity-Remembrance in the Syrian Refugees' Adaptability: An Interdisciplinary Assessment Awad, Najib George This article examines self-perception and its impact on the adaptability to new living contexts symptomatic of different socio-cultural and religious/theological identity-formation contexts. By relying on an interdisciplinary hermeneutic, it touches upon the issues of selfhood and otherness from an interdisciplinary theological and social-theoretical perspective by laying its foundations deep in the connections of theological/religious and cultural perceptions of the identity formation of displaced people in their new host life-settings. Such connectedness is demonstrative of self-perception trajectories, which foreigners go through in their attempts at integration and adaptation, or lack thereof, to the new and challenging living spheres they join. The article focuses on the Syrian refugees in Europe and analyses how their religious or theological self-perception relates to their confrontation with the new challenge of forming a new self-identification strategy that can enable them to answer the question 'who am I?' in the heart of their strife to exist in their new expatriate lands. The article touches upon this complex and multi-faceted matter from the specific perspective of the role of memory and remembrance in the journeys of self-perception and identity reformulation of these Syrians and their hosts, and in their religious and cultural ramifications. 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14178/3820 The Enigma of the Temple Site and the Word-play 'Moriah' Prudký, Martin This study on biblical topography examines the enigmatic name 'Moriah' (Gen 22:2) and identifiers it as a skillful wordplay, a pun using allusions in the given literary context of the Abrahamic cycle. 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14178/3724 Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Performance of Resilience in The Face of Inner Conflict Noble, Timothy This article focuses on the "terrible sonnets" of the English poet Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889). It shows how these poems offer an insight into a particular form of agonistics. Hopkins struggles with his understanding of self, of God, and of language, transforming experience into a fundamental clash of hegemonic visions of the world. Through resilience, there is not reconciliation but a re-visioning (therefore remediatising) of the possibility of human existence, which finds its home in language. Hopkins thus works between sound and sight and places a spiritual dimension into the political conversation about the task of being human. This challenge to any reductive approach is also, the article argues, an expression of resilience. 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14178/3524 Hermeneutika v sociální práci: interakce světů klienta a sociálního pracovníka Širka, Zdenko V  tomto příspěvku se zabýváme souvislostmi mezi praxí sociální práce a  hermeneutikou a zkoumáme, jak hermeneutika, věda o porozumění, zapadá do sociální práce, a to jak do teorie, tak do praxe. Cílem je přispět k dialogu a uchopit tento hermeneutický potenciál sociální práce. Jsou představeni hlavní zástupci hermeneutiky (Wilhem Dilthey, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Hans-Georg Gadamer) a související hermeneutické koncepty užitečné pro sociální práci: horizont člověka, hermeneutický kruh, dějinná zakotvenost, předporozumění a rozhovor. Je poukázáno na to, jak bylo spojení tematizováno doposud (konstruktivistický a reflexivní přístup), a vysvětleno, proč je toto spojení důležité. V článku je zdůrazněn především interperso-nální charakter sociální práce, s důrazem na svět klienta a svět sociálního pracovníka.; In this paper, we explore the connections between social work practice and hermeneutics and examine how hermeneutics, the science of understanding, fits into social work, both in theory and practice. The aim is to contribute to the dialogue and to grasp this hermeneutic potential of social work. The main representatives of hermeneutics (Wilhem Dilthey, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Hans-Georg Gadamer) and related hermeneutic concepts useful for social work are introduced: the human horizon, the hermeneutic circle, historical embeddedness, pre-understanding and conversation. How the connection has been thematized so far (constructivist and reflexive approaches) is pointed out and why this connection is important is explained. In particular, the interpersonal nature of social work is emphasized, with a focus on the world of the client and the world of the social worker. 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z