"I proto, že sem nekopal roli srdce svého": příspěvek k problematice sebetematizace u českých tajných nekatolíků v 18. století

• Authors: Jan Horský

Title variants

EN

"And also because I have not dug the field of my heart": a contribution to the question of the thematisation of the self among czech secret non-catholics in the 18th century

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This article carries on from the analysis ofthe “religious culture” ofWiirtemberg Lutheran pietism offered by Ulrike Gleixner, and is based on the theoretical concepts of culture used in Anthropological History and New Cultural History. Gleixner’s study shows the central importance in religious culture that “rebirth in the Holy Spirit” had for the thematisation ofthe selfamong 18th-century pietists. The question is whether we might find similar cultural categories serving as instruments ofthematisation ofthe selfin the “religious culture” of 18th-century Czech non-Catholics, who were partially influenced by Lutheran pietism. The article is focused on the analysis of a number of selected sources (especially the letters ofthe Czech serfMatěj Němeček of 1732, in which he gives reasons for his departure into Protestant exile), and it considers how the categories of“rebirth”, the “heart” and “conscience” are treated. While Němeček does not speak directly of“rebirth”, in the way that he describes himselfwe can find equivalents to rebirth that in a certain sense show a sectarian character (he regards a secular promise as sinful, the religious transformation ofthe selfneeds to be affirmed by emigration to a non-Catholic country, and this is understood as a work ofsalvation).

Keywords

CS

náboženství; dějiny

EN

religion; history

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Masaryk's Institute and Archives, ASCR
• Journal: Dějiny - Teorie - Kritika (History - Theory - Criticism)
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 49-71
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Jan Horský

• Dějiny – Teorie – Kritika, redakce, Masarykův ústav a Archiv AV ČR, v.v.i., Gabčíkova 2362/10, 180 00 Praha 8, Czech Republic