„V normálním životě bychom se nikdy dohromady nedali.“
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            * Beláňová Andrea
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            “In Normal Life, We Would Have Never Gotten Together”. Narratives of Arranged Marriages of

            Generations in the Unification Church

            Abstrakt

            Arranged marriages, together with mass weddings, are not the only remarkable practices of 
            Church. Arranged marriages can also be viewed as the central point of the Unification Chur
            life histories. These biographies are continuously being created, shared, and retold withi

            Currently, three main generations meet in the Unification Church: the first generation, th
            generation, and the neophytes. Members of each generation form their life-stories in a sli

            way. However, as I argue in this article, all of these biographies follow a four-stage str
            when speaking about the “matching process”, which leads to the creation of a couple. All t
            generations also incorporate several “more powerful actors” in their narratives, who assis

            the chosen life partner and help keep the life trajectory going in the expected and accept
            Moreover, humor is always present to relieve any drama in the story. For the analysis, int
            the Czech, the Slovak, and the American communities of the Unification Church were used, t

            author’s field notes and with Unification Church publications.

            Klíčová slova

            biographies; arranged marriage; matching story; narrative structure; Unification Church

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