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The Present Situation
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An Explanation for the poet George Vieru; The Romanian Film Festival - Chisinau 2007
More...An Explanation for the poet George Vieru; The Romanian Film Festival - Chisinau 2007
More...Keywords: education; theology; church; communism
The article provides an insightful overview of Romanian theological education and research under communism. It looks at the relationship between the Romanian Church and the communist state, the organization of education, and research in theology.
More...Keywords: faculty; seminar; Nicolae Ivan; martyrdom; education
This text is a brief presentation of the evolution of the theological education in Cluj in the 20th century. The beginnings of academic education coincide with the initiative of Bishop Nicolae Ivan, who saw the act of founding a new faculty of theological studies as an act of advancing comprehensiveness to the entire range of formative educational services within the university. Bishop Nicolae Ivan wanted a high-quality theological school in Cluj, and thus gathered fi rst-rate teaching stuff. In 1952 The Orthodox Theological Institute in Cluj ceased activity and became the Lyceum for Church Singers; The Seminar functioned under this name until 1978. In 1990, university courses at the Theological Institute in Cluj-Napoca resumed; in 1992 the Theological Institute became The Faculty of Orthodox Theology of “Babeş-Bolyai” University. The new generation of teaching stuff undertook the responsibilities passed on the foundation of martyrdom and fulfi lled the founder’s desiderata
More...Keywords: Raport
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More...Keywords: synchrony; diachrony; contemporary Anglo-American literature; literary tradition; intertextuality; fantasy
The present paper situates its concerns at the crossroads between the synchronic and the diachronic approaches to the literary text, as it attempts at demonstrating that the latter becomes mandatory for a full experience with the contemporary texts. In this sense, the paper focuses on the intertextual mechanism which triggers a diachronic interpretation of the text and which can take the extreme form of literary vampirism, as is the case of Angela Carter’s texts, or more subtle disguises, as illustrated by Eowyn Ivey’s eponymous debut novel. The study also discusses the problematic relationship of contemporary literature to literary tradition, a relationship whose dynamics puts the reader in the uncomfortable but eventually rewarding position of constantly looking elsewhere for meaning. Fantasy is seen as the perfect excuse for intertextuality and for providing an alternative not only to reality but also to the literary tradition, as these texts rewrite important parts of the consecrated literary canon.
More...Keywords: World Literature; Romanian literature; methodological nationalism; planetary turn; politics of reading; cosmopolitanism
The aim of this book review symposium is twofold. First, it offers a critical discussion of the volume Romanian Literature as World Literature (edited by Mircea Martin, Christian Moraru, and Andrei Terian), in relation to other comparative literary histories, on the one hand, and to the Romanian literary historiography, on the other hand. Several critics and scholars of Romanian and comparative literature, as well as two of the RLWL editors, comment on the book. Second, the dossier outlines a methodological debate, as the volume under scrutiny pleads for a paradigm shift in reading national literatures in the broader frame of world literature. Some contributors address key-issues such as “methodological nationalism” in Romanian literary research, the “exportability” of Romanian authors, and the politics of cross-cultural comparison, while others share their own academic experience in teaching Romanian literature as world literature.
More...Keywords: military attachés; institution of military attachés; political decisions; the General Staff of Romanian Army
Although military attachés have served as ―soldier diplomats for centuries, very few publications exist that discuss the roles they have played in shaping or promoting intrenal and foreign policy or the impacts they have had in the development of diplomatic relations. Military attachés can best be described as military officers assigned to embassies around the world as representatives of their national Defense Ministries. Studying this subject is important and topical, the access to archival documents allowing the reconstruction of historical table and review several issues of contemporary history.
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More...Keywords: advertising; narrative structure; hero; humor; irony;
Since 1990, the structures used for advertising have been diverse, but they had a closer form to the classic printed publication. The paper presents and comments on the humor of the texts and cartoons that make up an advertising campaign for Connex GSM in the 1990s. Both forms of presentation of mobile phone and its products belonged to Ion Barbu, a talented graphic designer, teacher, laureate of many national and international awards. The familiarization of the consumers with the mentioned product was realized through humorous texts and a caricature type advertisement. The verb-iconic alliance holds a plus-value consisting of humor and analogical representations.
More...Keywords: Romanian Orthodox Church; ecclesiastical journalism; communism; Romanian Revolution from December 1989; Mitropolia Ardealului; Antonie Plămădeală;
This study deals with the way in which the Revolution of December 1989 was recorded in the pages of the journal "Mitropolia Ardealului", the official magazine of the Archdiocese of Sibiu, the Archdiocese of Vad, Cluj and Feleac, the Diocese of Alba Iulia and the Diocese of Oradea. Antonie Plămădeală, Metropolitan of Ardeal, was the first romanian hierarch who denounced the communist regime and also acknowledged that it had a double language. We analyzed the evolution of the religious discourse during the period December 1989 - December 1990, from the texts published in “Mitropolia Ardealului.
More...Keywords: Orthodox Diaspora; Orthodox Romanian Church; Communist Regime in Romania; romanian bishop;
The Romanian immigrants were still connected to their mother country by origin,faith and traditions when they embraced their new state and gave a new dynamic tothe group, which, after 50 years of existence in the land of the free, went throughthe identity construction struggle, becoming Romanian Americans. We intend tounderline that, at the core of the separatist actions, which animated the group acrossthe Ocean, was a unilateral perception regarding the condition of the OrthodoxChurch in communist Romania, doubled by a “custom” among the ethnic OrthodoxChurches of America, which was to declare themselves different and brake fi lial tieswith the mother Churches of the countries that were under the communist sphereof infl uence and domination, hence, assuming an autonomous, independent, selfsuffi cient status, we must say, contrary to the ecclesiology, the spirituality and theorthodox canons.
More...Keywords: Romanian Army; the General Staff; First World War; Soviet Russia; Romanian intelligence services; interwar period; the Department for General State Security; hybrid warfare; Romanian Communist Party;
World War I led to changes both on a European and a global level. Romania is a significant case/example considering the fact that in 1918, after the fall of the multinational empires, it achieved the goal of national unity. In the following years, the Romanian state promoted the peace established then, in order to strengthen its territorial integrity and alliances. The institutions of the national security system worked, since the end of the military actions, to fulfill this strategic objective. Both the army and the national intelligence services were confronted with complex threats. “Great Romania” had, at the time, three neighbouring countries with an obvious revisionist foreign policy and territorial claims – Hungary, Bulgaria and Soviet Russia. By far the most dangerous enemy (both in terms of force and means) was the Soviet Union which never accepted the territorial losses of the Tsarist Empire and the loss of Bessarabia. Lenin’s Russia and then Stalin’s Soviet Union attempted, in the two decades that separated WW I and WW II, to destabilize the Romanian state through means and methods that echo the modern “hybrid warfare” – from propaganda performed by the communist movement aimed at changing the constitutional order, to various attempts to ignite peasant revolutions (as a pretext for the Red Army intervention), and factory strikes, to an intensive espionage activity. The paper aims to analyse on the one hand the ample subversive actions of the soviet secret services and, on the other, to look at the countermeasures that the Romanian intelligence structures adopted for their annihilation.
More...Keywords: Activity; members; Romanian Slavic Association; 2003-2008;
Scientific life: Din activitatea membrilor Asociaţiei Slaviştilor din România (2003-2008) ‒ Mariana Mangiulea
More...Keywords: Arhivele totalitarismului; history in pictures;
Institutul Național pentru Studiul Totalitarismului - O istorie în imagin
More...Keywords: glass icons; Poenariu; Laz; living human thesaurus; painters iconographers;
The tradition of religious glass icon painting in southern Transylvania highlights the village of Laz situated on Sebeș Valley, as a place of upmost importance regarding arts and crafts. Religious icon painting, wood painting, cloth painting and mural painting in the traditional Romanian environment registers here a uninterrupted activity for more than two and a half centuries, portrayed by four families of icon painters: Poenariu, Moraru, Zamfir and Rodean. The family has a remarkable history spanning over seven generations, beginning with Savu Poenariu, and continuing in our times with Florin Poenariu whose artistic accomplishments in the fields of glass painting and woodcarving were recognised by the Romanian Ministry of Culture whom gratified him with the title of Living Human Thesaurus.
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