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The present study aims to recover the first period of the detention of Sandu Tudor (who had become, meanwhile, the Monk Agaton), the research approach being centered on the analysis of the Archive documents. A simple reading of the file no. 013495, vol. 1 and 2, Criminal fund, located at the Archive of the National Council for the Study of Security Archives (A.C.N.S.A.S.), reveals a collection of disturbing, edifying data on this subject, as we consider. The first sheet of the aforementioned file, vol. 1, is the Cover of the File no. 1811/1950, drawn up by the Bucharest Court, the Third Criminal Section, „Posteucă Dumitru and Teodorescu Alexandru”, with the mention „War crime”. In order to offer the potential reader a more accurate image of the information obtained from the Security Archives and from the memorialistic literature regarding the concentrationary periplus of Father Daniil (Sandu Tudor), a genuine extermination regime at the penitentiaries in Jilava, Poartă Albă and Culmea, we have appealed to an evolutionary, chronological x-ray of the data, so that, subsequently, we could provide a critical, problematizing analysis of our subject from the perspective of the paradoxical ambivalence victim-executioner, representing an opportunity to demonstrate why we consider him a true paradigm of the resistance through hesychia.
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After 1990, „Rugul Aprins” (“The Burning Bush”) constituted a research topic that aroused the interest of theologians, historians and people of letters in the Romanian cultural space. The topic is very broad, but in this study we will only follow the configuration of the open warrior destiny of Father Daniil (Sandu Tudor), this `homo religiosus`, who, defying the „culture” of the totalitarian communist state, remained on the coordinates of a `modus vivendi` subordinated to a transcendental order. We also emphasize that the purpose of focusing on Father Daniil Sandu Tudor is, in general, the reconstruction of the complete picture of the totalitarian communist society’s dynamics and, in particular, of the resistance of the Romanian Orthodox Church under the atheist persecution. The sections of the present research approach were, in large part, constituted as an updated radiography of the realities of those times from the perspective of confessors Nicolae Rădulescu and Emanoil Mihăilescu. We believe that the analogy between the two angles of remembrance, mediated by the former students who composed the group „Teodorescu Alexandru and others” represents an efficient technique of reconstructing the historical truth.
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The history of the organs in the Cistercian Abbey in Kraków-Mogiła has not been studied so far. The article elaborates this topic based on the results of an archival query. Most of the sources are preserved in the Cistercian Archive in Mogiła. Examining them, the author discusses the history of instruments in the monastic church and in the former St Bartholomew church. On the basis of the sources, it was stated that at least in the 18th century the monastery church was equipped with two pipe organs. This fact has not been pointed out so far by researchers. The following article is supplemented by archival photographs.
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This article discusses how women’s authority to speak about religion is forged in digital media and builds on empirical work focusing on bloggers in a Swedish context and vloggers in a North American context. These studies show how women’s self-performances in digital media are characterized by a communicative intention towards authentic self-expression. We argue that these self-performances also enable a particular form of authority to emerge, that is dependent on an individual’s personal qualities and ability to inhibit and/or perform certain values; relational and co-effected, forged in constant connectivity with audiences. Authenticity is a core characteristic of this form of authority in the sense of a connection between being true to your inner self and acknowledging your dependence on others. Finally, vulnerability is an intrinsic part as, on the one hand, a condition enhanced by the socio-technological affordances of digital media and, on the other, as a possibility to challenge stigma, open up spaces of inclusivity and enacting a different ideal of authority.
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Based on empirical researches the article presents what gender differences can be unfolded in the digital media usage of Hungarian religious communities. In the theoretical background, the study overviews the literature of the research history of gender differences related to religions (King, 2004; Aune, 2015; Fedele, 2018). It also relies on the Religious Social Shaping of Technology (RRST) theory and the Uses and Gratifications theory, which serve the theoretical and methodological basis of this research (Brubacker & Haigh, 2017; Ratcliff, McCarthy & Ritter, 2017). Relying on these, the patterns of digital media usage of two Hungarian religious communities will be uncovered. The methodological process was the following: at first in-depth interviews were conducted with the communication leaders and bloggers of these communities, which were carried out concerning the RSST theory (Campbell, 2006, 2010, 2013, 2016; Cheong at al., 2012; Herteliu, 2018; Tudor & Herteliu; 2016, Falca, 2018). Following this, supported by the results of the interviews and the previous uses and gratifications researches, two questionnaires were composed (Laney, 2005). We got more than 600 respondents among the so-called “777” community (young Catholic bloggers community) and 64 respondents among the Hungarian Krishna-Conscious Believers community.
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News from around the bloc: Zelenskiy, one year on; Serbia-Montenegro spat rolls on; pandemic in Armenia; Russian in Uzbekistan; and a modern take on Mongolian gers.
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Iran is the bosom of Shi'a. The article aims to trace and analyze the role and place of Islam in Iran, to consider the dogmatic differences between Sunnis and Shiites in the context of the geostrategic rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia. It has been suggested that Shiism is the religious form of the idea of social change through an interdisciplinary and problem-thematic approach. Original ideas and literature have been proposed to enrich the Bulgarian scientific knowledge of Shiite Islam, with a scientifically applied effect.
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Care for the upbringing of youth has always been a key issue. For people to survive in the world, they need to constantly develop. The inclination to invest in oneself coincides at the same time with the commitment in the field of education and upbringing. The inter-generational co-operation creates an adequate potential, which serves the whole society. One of those who devoted themselves to pedagogical activity was Father Leon Dehon. He, due to social and cultural circumstances, as well as motivated to confide in the Heart of Jesus brought forth by his faith, organised an educational apostolate in Saint-Quentin. Considering the difficult times in which he lived, he undertook with courage initiatives that particularly influenced the shaping of new social, cultural and religious order. Thanks to his education and good interpersonal skills he established a school which trained France’s future social elites, as well as gave rise to a new religious congregation, organising mainly priestly formation. The aim of this article is to present a model of Dehonian education, which gave a new impulse to both the ecclesial environment and the working-class society of the 19th-century France. Due to the fruitfulness of his work, which promulgated an ideal of charity and social equality, today we also want to peruse the treasures of Father Dehon’s experiences. An attempt to invoke his thought allows us to rediscover the contemporary demand for education and formation aiming to guide humanity to holiness.
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Proceedings of the Spring Pastoral Missionary Conference of the Clergy from the Archdiocese of Bucharest with the theme: „2019 –The Solemn Year of the Romanian Village (of Priests, Teachers and Diligent Mayors)
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The article focuses on some of the issues present in the selection of Simone Weil’s writings – Supernatural Consiousness. Issues such as existentialist motives in the context of The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus, the issue of humility and necessity and the issue of self-reduction of God.
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The review of the book based on lectures presented at a scientific conference organized at the University of Bielsko-Biala on the subject “Reformation in terms of Bielsko and Biala”. The article presents texts of the authors, who in a distinctive way referred to the issues of the Reformation and life of the Protestants in Bielsko and Biala over five centuries. The author of the review emphasizes raised questions, the characters, and the history of the evangelicals in Bielsko-Biala, while at the same time leaves the reader the opportunity to make his own assessment. The reviewed book is a continuation of the research conducted by humanists from ATH in Bielsko-Biala, within one book has already been published “Reading the City. Bielsko-Biala as a cultural palimpsest”.
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The work of John Skylitzes (Synopsis historion) embracing thehistory of Byzantium from the 9th till the 11th century, written in thetimes of Aleksy Komnen – when Rus’ had already been a christianizedcountry – allows to view the attitudes of Byzantines towardsthe process of christianization of Rus’. Namely, John Skylitzes providestwo descriptions of how Christian faith was adopted by Rus’(under the reign of Michael II and then Basil I) and mentions thechristening of Princess Olga, while completely neglecting the actualChristianization of Kievan Rus’ during the reign of Vladimir I theSaint. Thus, the narration rendered by John Skylitzes indicates thatRuthenia entered the Christian ecumene only once, that is, in the 9thcentury
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The focus of the study is to track the extent to which video games allow religious organizations to spread their ideas, views and beliefs among young people and believers in general, as well as the extent to which games influence the formation of certain stereotypes in the player. Of particular interest to the researcher are the websites of the officially registered religions in Bulgaria and their preaching and educational activities
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This article shows the importance of a ritual towel, its ornamentation, types, application, symbolism, creation motifs and the place it occupies in the lives of Belarusians living in the region of eastern Poland. The towel accompanies Belarusians from birth, engagement, through marriage, wedding, to death. There are two types of Belorussian towels in the Podlasie Region: casual and ceremonial towels. They perform practical, aesthetic, religious, symbolic, cleansing, protective and mystical functions. The content of the article was obtained by an analysis of literature directly related to the subject of research, formal analysis of documents and products of research, observations and in-depth ethnographic interviews. By using these research techniques, the author interpreted the symbolism of the Belarusian ceremonial towel. The presented research also helped to determine its place and manner of use by Belarusians in specific rituals and customs.
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This paper provides a comparative analysis of Polish and Russian carolling activity, which may be considered as a symbolic celebration of “tricksteriada”. Descriptions of carolling customs cultivated in the 19th- and at the beginning of the 20th century, primarily in ethnographic studies, were used as the source material. The issue mentioned above, to date, has not been studied, except quite limited comments concerning the “trickster” nature of masqueraders and their plays. Folk culture, i.e. a syncretic creation, was formed by pagan and Christian elements. In the context of the subject of this paper, rituals such as Christmas and New Year’s carolling prove its Slavic origin. The “supernatural visitors”, dressed as animals and anthropomorphic characters, violate cultural taboos. During carnival the order is reversed and provocative behaviour is acceptable. The carollers, in their role as traveling actors, seem to impersonate jesters in plays.
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The aim of this article is to approach the proximity of Jean-Luc Marion’s phenomenology to mysticism. Marion’s transcendence to mysticism can be seen in two directions: in the interpretation of Dionysius the Areopagite’s work, and in the understanding of saturated phenomena. Marion claims that Dionysius the Areopagite indicates a new pragmatic function of language, targeting God who overcomes all the names. The discourse of hymn and praise of God does not lie in predicting attributes (positive or negative). It is not a masked prediction, but it is outside the dual framework of true and false. Marion also believes that man, as an image of God, is not equal to his icon. His reflections can be understood and interpreted in such a way that two incomprehensible and loving beings come together in the encounter of God and man. Here we can see the first condition, assumption and the very possibility of mysticism as such. The intersections of phenomenology and literature are obvious, but phenomenology still remains both an invitation and a challenge for literary theory.
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