Original scientific paper

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE HISTORICAL CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUNDING THE EMERGENCE AND ACTIVITIES OF THE CZECHOSLOVAK, SLOVENIAN AND CROATIAN OREL/ORAO MOVEMENTS

Saša Ceraj ; Croatian Olympic Academy

Abstract

The beginnings of the Orel movement can be found in the Czech lands and Slovakia at the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, where it was a response to liberal trends and the Sokol organization, but also a movement founded in the Slav/cultural discourse which aspired to Orel mutualism, cultural unity and equal status as creators of European thought and socio-cultural renewal. The Orel movement came via Slovenia to Croatia,
where the unified orientation of the Croatian Orao movement was determined by Ivan Merz through the introduction of the a specific course for the Croatian Orao movement, particularly apparent in the guidelines set forth in the encyclical Ubi Arcano Dei: political neutrality, a new approach to physical culture and comprehensive personal growth. This article analyzes the activity of the Orel/Orao movement in Czechoslovakia, Slovenia and Croatia and ascertains the specific aspects of the Croatian Orao Federation, summarizing them under the term Croatian Orao specificum.

Keywords

Czechoslovak Orel movement; Slovenian Orel movement; Croatian Orao movement; Croatian Orao Federation; Croatian Orao specificum

Hrčak ID:

138626

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/138626

Publication date:

3.2.2014.

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