Mentalul religios românesc – o problemă de metodă şi reflecţie-
The Romanian Religious Mentality - A Problem of Method and Thought -

Summary/Abstract: For the scientific world and for the public, mentality represents still a very attractive but extremelly complicated subject, its implications justifying the human attitudes and behaviours. If the focuse is laid on the XVIIth century, the situation becomes more complicated because of the difficulties encountered while checking the observations. Starting from the contemporary analitical perspectives, the study suggests some directions regarding the interpretation and analysis of the Romanian religious mentality from this century, dominated by religious problems. The historic direction of the research has established a compromise between the context of events and thinking, while the antropological direction has omitted causality, the explanation thus being internalized. In this situation, the research tendencies are placed, either at the descriptional level (identifying and describing the facts and the practices). colaborating very well with the quantitative level (interested in statistics done after reading from numerous sources). or at the qualitative level (dominated by images and symbols). These highlights are soustained historically, but they also encourage branched research. Thus, the study opens up new research osibilities of these sensitive problems. The conclusion of the study emphasizes the importance of the interdisciplinary colaboration and the responsability and courage needed to start such an approach.

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