Meziválečná krajanská péče jako „záchranná“ akce: k utváření kolektivní identity českých evangelíků v jihovýchodní Evropě

Title:

Meziválečná krajanská péče jako „záchranná“ akce: k utváření kolektivní identity českých evangelíků v jihovýchodní Evropě
Assistance to fellow countrymen in the interwar period as an effort for „rescue“: to the study of collective identities of Czech protestants in South-Eastern Europe

Creator:

Pavlásek, Michal

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:bab7721d-2c2f-4593-92b1-b8d44c217f7e
uuid:bab7721d-2c2f-4593-92b1-b8d44c217f7e

Subject:

assistance to fellow countrymen, Gorna Mitropolja, construction of collective identity, and missionary-educational activity

Type:

model:article and TEXT

Format:

bez média and svazek

Description:

The study is based on the thesis that the members of Czech communities abroad who left their country before the period of the „National Awakening“ imbibed the national idea thanks to the „assistance to fellow countrymen“ in the interwar period. This was motivated by the effort to „save“ the communities of fellow countrymen from being assimilated into the majorite society of South-Eastern Europe. The following article aims to apply constructivist approach to nation into the study of the phenomenon of fellow countrymen. Ethnicity only comes to the foreground of the organizing criteria of these collective entities after the arrival of assistants. The first part of the study presents the organizing mechanism of sending the assistants on the example of the Bulgarian community Gorna Mitropolia. The other part represents an effort to conceptualize in a broader way the constructivist approach. The communication network of the state and the foreign out-migration therefore rested on the mission-evangelizing basis. The communities involved accepted, besides the already existing territorial and linguistic identification, also another aspect of the collective identity – the identification with the shared past. Only after the application of the „ethnic diction“ that stressed the common origin we can consider the Protestant groups abroad as ethnic communities of Czech fellow countrymen.

Language:

Czech

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
policy:public

Coverage:

113-134

Source:

Český lid | 2011 Volume:98 | Number:2

Harvested from:

CDK

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