We kindly inform you that, as long as the subject affiliation of our 300.000+ articles is in progress, you might get unsufficient or no results on your third level or second level search. In this case, please broaden your search criteria.

20.00 €

Islamizacija na južnoslovenskom prostoru. Kovertiti: kako su se zvali

Author(s): Olga Zirojević / Language(s): Serbian

Personal name always communicates identity, and as a result of this, taking a new name is very important part of conversion, this name being a formal feature of the new Muslim identity of a convert. Repertoire of names in Islam is very rich, because the whole nature, starting from the Sun itself (šems – Šemso, Šemsa), serves to Muslims as a source of names. Starting from the fact that the emissary Muhammad recommended only those names that are not opposed to Islamic dogma, in the forthcoming period, during the process of islamization of non-Arabic nations, it became a duty for a new Muslim to be given such a name. That is the reason why converts came to take names most often associated to Arabic history and Old Testament prophets. It is known that in the Arab Middle age even more than two thirds of Muslims – converts gave their sons Arabic religious names (Mehmed, Ahmad, Ali, Hasan, Hüssein) or biblical or more precisely those from Koran (Ibrahim, Ismail, Yusuf along with others). This practice will continue in Turk Osmanli period. Finally there is the name Sinan that was, as a rule, according to Fr. Babinger, taken only by renegades (Mimar Sinan was certainly the most famous among them).Importance that is placed on names is convincingly illustrated by the fact that even those that had Turkish or more precisely Islamic names on the occasion of conversion took a new, Islamic name. Namely, it is not unknown that since the times of Turks Seljuk, and later in Turk Osmanli period as well, many Christians and Jews bore Turkish and Islamic names (such as Kaya, Arslan, Aydin, Armağan, Bahtiyar, Devlet, Gökče, Tursun, Emin, Čoban, Hizir, Kurd, Kargöz, Iskender, Sinan, Budak, Karaca, Čiček, Kumru, Šahin, Timur, Dede, Širmerd, Musa.Yahya). Similarly, the Greek man Murad from Manisa, after conversion (1621) gained the name Mustafa. For example, in the town Adana, as recorded in the census record book from 1572, out of 451 Christians, 61 of them or 14% had Turkish name, being mainly Karagöz. As claimed by Y. Kurt, these are pre-Islamic names that were brought along with Pečenezi and Uz Turks, Christians-builders Sulejmanli in Istanbul also had Muslim names. Along with the aforementioned, names such as Bayezid, Džafer, Hasan, Hüssein, Hudaverdi, Mehmed are encountered. Generally based on the official Osmanli census records, on the Balkans region Christians bore Turkish names (and these names were also welcomed by converts), and the most frequent names are Šahin, Širmerd, Dogan, Balaban, Senk(ğ)ur, Karadža and Hamza. This last mentioned name originates from German or Sasi name Johannis or more precisely Hansa, later Hamza, and it is not protective name. The aforementioned Turkish names do not have necessarily to be such: it is an obvious process of turkisation, especially in the area of Asia Minor.

More...

52.00 €

Castle and Cathedral in Modern Prague. Longing for the Sacred in a Skeptical Age

Author(s): Bruce R. Berglund / Language(s): English

Six million people visit Prague Castle each year. Here is the story of how this ancient citadel was transformed after World War I from a neglected, run-down relic into the seat of power for independent Czechoslovakia—and the symbolic center of democratic postwar Europe. The restoration of Prague Castle was a collaboration of three remarkable figures in twentieth-century east central Europe: Tomáš Masaryk, the philosopher who became Czechoslovakia’s first president; his daughter Alice, a social worker trained in the settlement houses of Chicago who was founding director of the Czechoslovak Red Cross and her father’s trusted confidante; and the architect, Jože Plečnik of Slovenia, who integrated reverence for Classical architecture into distinctly modern designs. Their shared vision saw the Castle not simply as a government building or historic landmark but as the sacred center of the new republic, even the new Europe—a place that would embody a different kind of democratic politics, rooted in the spiritual and the moral.With a biographer’s attention to detail, historian Bruce Berglund presents lively and intimate portraits of these three figures. At the same time, he also places them in the context of politics and culture in interwar Prague and the broader history of religion and secularization in modern Europe. Gracefully written and grounded in a wide array of sources, Castle and Cathedral in Modern Prague is an original and accessible study of how people at the center of Europe, in the early decades of the twentieth century, struggled with questions of morality, faith, loyalty, and skepticism.

More...

15.00 €

Pięć ksiąg Tory. Komentarze

Author(s): Paweł Śpiewak / Language(s): Polish

A collection of the Torah commentaries arranged in the annual cycle of the synagogue readings. The commentaries relate to the particular events of the biblical history, as each part of the Torah contains a specific story, has its heroes, happens at a certain time and place. The author attempts to familiarize the Polish readers with a centuries-old tradition of the Torah reading and commenting cultivated by the followers of Judaism. Keywords: Torah, Judaism, Torah commentaries, Bible

More...

14.00 €

Religia w nowoczesnym państwie demokratycznym – szansa czy zagrożenie? Analiza sporu liberałów i komunitarian

Author(s): Marta Turkot / Language(s): Polish

The analysis of the discussion on the significance of religion for the contemporary democratic state and its forms of presence in the public sphere. The author examines the religious and non-religious foundations of the constitutional state that affect the condition of the system. Referring to the dispute between the liberals and the communitarians about the idea of justice in the society, the author makes an attempt to develop the current polemics with new arguments.

More...

11.00 €

Średniowieczne opowieści biblijne. Paleja historyczna w tradycji bizantyńsko-słowiańskiej (Series Ceranea 4)

Author(s): Małgorzata Skowronek / Language(s): Polish

The study focuses upon the Byzantine literary relic from the end of the 9th century and especially its history within the Slavia Orthodoxa circle. Basically an elaboration of selected Old Testament stories, the Palaea Historica (hereon: PH) is a text combining different genres and styles of narration, has been translated at least twice into the Slavic language and which translations have been circulating in Bulgarian, Serbian, Moldavian and Ruthenian copies dated from the end of 14th century till the beginnings of the 17th century.The commentary to the second Slavic translation of the PH is accompanied by appendices: stemma codicum of the PH II – scheme showing the relations among the copies and groups of copies of the PH II; the table of titles of the chapters in the copies of the PH II; the quoted fragments of The Great Canon of Penance by St.An¬drew of Crete; the edition of selected texts accompanying the PH II in the codices that contain it (series of mystagogical-theological teachings and explications, the biblical Story of Susanna, stories on Old Testament themes, the anti-Latin treatise).

More...

30.00 €

Reformacja w Polsce a dziedzictwo Erazma z Rotterdamu

Author(s): Maciej Ptaszyński / Language(s): Polish

The author presents the history of the Reformation in the Kingdom of Poland in the years 1518–1566, with a particular emphasis on the role of Polish erasmen, understood both as friends and correspondents of Erasmus from Rotterdam, and – more broadly – as admirers of his works. The text presents the Reformation as a process in which the question about the foundations of faith entailed theological, social and political changes. They co-created the erstwhile reformation in Poland and shaped the processes of the entire society, being at the same time participants in these processes.

More...

11.00 €

Kultura monastyczna w późnośredniowiecznej Bułgarii (Byzantina Lodziensia XXX)

Author(s): Jan Mikołaj Wolski / Language(s): Polish

The life of the monks was entirely attuned to one goal – the salvation of the soul. The desire to be saved and the idea of how it could be achieved shaped the foundations of monastic culture. Of all the Christians who declared the same overarching objective, the monks were distinguished by the fortitude of their resolve, which determined their characteristic radicalism. The greatest masters of Eastern Christian spirituality: Saint Basil the Great, Dorotheus of Gaza, Saint Isaac the Syrian and Saint John Climacus, would instruct those wanting eternal glory to never neglect the issue of their salvation. Ascetic life was thought to give a better chance of achieving salvation, as opposed to living “in the world”. In this work, monastic culture has been shown as a totality of symbolic means used by the monks to fulfil their life purpose. The dissertation is based on varied sources, primarily including what would be read by the monks in those days (selective choice), texts describing their lives (i.e., the lives of saints) and regulating them, and texts conveying the opinions of the monasteries and their inhabitants, written by the people living at the time (donation deeds of the then rulers, monks’ own writing).

More...

10.00 €

RIZNICA MEVLEVIJSKE MUDROSTI

Author(s): Elvir Musić / Language(s): Bosnian

Knjiga Riznica mevlevijske mudrosti nastala iz pera istaknutog istraživača dr. Elvira Musića predstavlja ‘kap’ iz širokog i dubokog okeana autentičnog tesavvufa i gnoze. Uz životopis, autor je uložio veliki napor da na temelju djela Behau Veleda, Burhanuddina Tirmizija, Šemsa Tabrizija i Sultana Veleda predstavi misao Mevlana Dželaluddina Belhija (Rumi). Sve ove osobe, s izuzetkom Sultana Veleda, su imale velikog utjecaja na oblikovanje Rumijeve ličnosti, čovjeka kojeg su velikani nazvali ‘drvetom poniklim iz vrta islamske kulture’ i čiji je utjecaj u promoviranju i razvoju islamske kulture nesporan. Njegova poezija poput zapjenušane rijeke ‘žubori’ iz njegovog srca i preko svijesti preljeva se preko jezika. Ali nije poezija ta koja mu je priskrbila ovaj visoki stupanj, već ga je njegova uzvišena gnostička misao prožeta religioznošću, bolom i posvemašnjom umjetnošću svrstala u red najznamenitijih duhovnih velikana svijeta. Mevlana je vjerovao da čovjek može postati istinskim čovjekom kroz upoznavanje sa islamskom kulturom i njenim praktičnim slijeđenjem te da njegova ličnost dozrijeva putujući od ‘Innā lillāhi’ ka ‘Innā ilejhi rādži’ūn’.

More...

0.00 €

Съвременната святост: история, образи, символи, практики

Author(s): / Language(s): Bulgarian,Russian,Polish,Greek, Modern (1453-)

The subject of holiness and its historical and contemporary dimensions has proven to be a cross point for the research interests of academics with a different academic background profile - theologians and historians, anthropologists and sociologists, art historians and pedagogues. This allowed the discussions to cross the boundaries of the single disciplines and to outline a rich and multidimensional image of research phenomenon. The vast variety of positions proved how beneficial could be the "Scientific diversity" and the lack of paradigmatic dogmatism outlined by the academic tolerance has turned this first conference into a forum for free exchange of views and opinions. This was particularly important for young scientists involved, for which the access to such scientific forums is often limited by institutional ones or other reasons. The collection we bring to the attention of readers reflects the current state of scientific thought on the theme of holiness.

More...

0.00 €

Konšpiračné teórie: témy, historické kontexty a argumentačné stratégie.

Author(s): Zuzana Panczová / Language(s): Slovak

Conspiracy theories concern important and sensitive spheres of social life which, at the same time, represent a source of group tensions (issues of the morale, religion, environment, natural disasters, wars, etc.), introducing in such tensions and uncertainty revelations of their alleged originators and visions of the assumed future consequences. The publication deals with conspiracy theories from several angles. The book chapters clarify the definitions of the terms, provide an overview of recent research, describe the historical and ideological contexts of conspiracy theories popular also in Slovakia, and offer examples of textual analyses of internet discussions. The research, which forms the basis of this work, has been conducted on a continuous basis since 2003. At that time, this topic was marginal in Slovakia, yet with an increasing need for scientific reflection. The purpose of the book is to present an overview of the scientific research conducted so far, using a language which is more comprehensible to readers outside the scientific community.

More...

42.00 €

The Religious World of Quintus Aurelius Symmachus

Author(s): Jill Mitchell / Language(s): English

“The Religious World of Quintus Aurelius Symmachus” examines the religious life of one of the last pagan senators of Rome, dates c. 340-402, who lived in a tumultuous time during the Late Antique period of the Roman Empire, dying just a few years before the Western Empire began to break up. Symmachus could not have imagined the political reality developing so soon after his death, so he is important as a late example of the old Roman Western aristocracy, as well as one of the last pagans of Rome. He was regarded as the foremost orator of his time and was a prolific letter-writer who had correspondents in high places and throughout the Empire. He also filled the posts of Urban Prefect of Rome and Consul - and was the opponent of Bishop Ambrose of Milan during the so-called 384 CE “Altar of Victory Dispute,” which was one episode of many leading to the “ triumph” of Christianity over traditional Roman polytheism. Symmachus’ cache of 900 private letters and his official despatches while Urban Prefect have provided the raw material for this book.

More...

35.00 €

Mary, the Apostles, and the Last Judgment. Apocryphal Representations from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages

Author(s): / Language(s): English

This volume presents a timely contribution to the growing body of scholarship on the apocryphal writings and their reception in the Middle Ages, especially in connection with visual representation. It aims to bridge what often remains disconnected, the visual art and the written text, the early Christian roots and medieval reception, the East and the West, as well as methodologies of various disciplines. The studies in this volume firstly investigate issues related to the Virgin Mary, and through them, also the status, function, and identity of women. Mary and the female element thus represent significant models and/or background figures in fields pertaining to theology, religious studies, textual studies, manuscript studies, and art history in a trans-disciplinary perspective. Secondly, the studies focus on the apostles and the Last Judgment, their visual representations and the use of apocryphal sources. The volume is divided in two parts according to two major topics: Part I dealing with Mary in the Apocrypha, and Part II focusing on the Apostles and the Last Judgment.

More...

15.00 €

Gömör szíve. Tanulmányok a dél-szlovákiai Gömör népi vallásosságáról

Author(s): Annabella Gecse / Language(s): Hungarian

This work is a publication of the results of a research that was undertaken with the support of the János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in the period between 2011 and 2014. During my research, I examined the 20th century folk religiosity of nine Hungarian villages in southern Slovakia: Abafalva (Abovce), Baraca (Barca), Cakó (Cakov), Füge (Figa), Méhi (Včelince), Rimaszécs (Rimavská Seč), Sajószentkirály (Kráľ), Uzapanyit (Uzovská Panica), and Velkenye (Vlkyňa). The area is one of the Catholic regions of the ethnically, linguistically and religiously mixed Gemer, mostly in a Protestant environment.In the introductory chapter of my work, I interpret the concept of folk religiosity and religious ethnography with an overview of academic literature, and then—also with previous research results—I outline the important features of the research area. I divided the folk religiosity of the nine villages into two large units by village. I presented a picture of the folk religiosity of the first half of the 20th century on the basis of records deposited with the Episcopal Archives in Rožňava. As far as possible, I analyzed the data, which developed mostly from Hungarian, and to a lesser extent Slovak, documents on the basis of the same aspects, I tried to capture the relationship and dialogue of the “official” church, the perception of religious practitioners and parishioners and cantors of each other. Specific data for this interpretation were provided by the conflict situations: the two world wars, the expulsions and resettlements, the population exchange, and finally the constraint of the churches after the Second World War. The researchability of ecclesiastical archival sources ends in the early 1950s, so I have expanded the interpretation of the concept of “religiosity of today” from this period to the present day. I obtained data on the folk religiosity of the other time unit by village through field research, ethnographic collecting and participant observation. In the process, I was able to capture the image of the examined villages about each other, and also the characteristics that serve as the basis of the opinions. By analyzing these, the interpretation of the data obtained by the two methods ends. Subsequently, I compiled the archival sources in a separate chapter entitled Data Archive, particularly due to the relatively difficult access to the Episcopal Archives in Rožňava. Here, too, I arranged the documents by village, sometimes only describing their content, but most of the time I published the texts literally, in their entirety, from the analysis of which chapters dealing with the first half of the 20th century were composed. During the field research, I prepared a survey of small sacral relics in all villages. The photographic, measured drawing and text presentation of these forms the next chapter of my work, I have edited the descriptions, drawings and photographs of slightly more than fifty roadside crosses and sculptures into a data repository based on uniform aspects. Finally, for two full years, 2011 and 2012, I compiled the annual order of the spiritual folk songs performed at the Sunday and festive masses in Baraca. In the second year, I also filmed about 50 hours of mass. These recordings are available in the book using QR codes.In the course of my work, the strongest characteristics of the folk religiosity of the examined villages had unfolded. Archival sources provided data on what is the basis of the image of a village in the others. As much as I got a colourful picture of the first half of the 20th century, it is so much common the most defining feature of the religiosity of today. In all villages it could be proved that the official ecclesiastical persons have a much smaller influence on the practice of religion than the so-called laymen, who in all cases are local members of the community (unlike parishioners), native Hungarian speakers (often unlike parishioners) and key persons in religious life. These key people are often amateur cantors, ecclesiastical omnivores in one person, who still keep up the repertoire of folk songs, eulogies, the order of ceremonies, and forms of religious conduct of the 1940s.

More...

15.00 €

Światy wartości u progu pandemii. Socjologiczne studium społeczności miejskiej

Author(s): Wojciech Świątkiewicz / Language(s): Polish

Discussions and disputes over values and ways of practicing them are always disputes about people and the shapes of the culture they create. The book refers to the original part of field research of an interdisciplinary study project that prepares a monograph of Zabrze. The first part presents sociological comments on the axiological identification of the city's inhabitants and moral culture viewed from the perspective of the acceptance of values and their relativization. The second part describes cultural patterns of urban religiousness and addresses the issue of updating religious values and practices in a situatioon caused by the outbreak of a global pandemic.

More...

0.00 €

Joga w kontekstach kulturowych 4

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Yoga in cultural contexts, Volume 4 is a publication connected to the joint project of Department of Theory and History of Culture of the University of Silesia (now the Department of Theory and History of Culture) and the Department of Sport and Tourism Management of the Jerzy Kukuczka Academy of Physical Education in Katowice, which has been carried out since 2013. Yoga in cultural contexts, Volume 4 constitutes an interdisciplinary book, containing works by, among others, cultural scientists, Indologists, Arabists and sociologists. The chapters included in the volume discuss yoga as a complex system of beliefs and practices rooted in the cultural context of India, as well a phenomenon gaining increasing importance in Western culture.

More...

12.00 €

Kultura reformacji i reformowanie w kulturze

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Już od czasów Maxa Webera w refleksji naukowej i filozoficznej pojawiała się myśl, że reformacja to nie tylko zjawisko historyczne, ale nade wszystko społeczno-kulturowe. Kojarzą się z nią m.in.: indywidualizm, doświadczeniowość, nowoczesność, innowacja, aktywizm, asceza w świecie, kreatywność, samorefleksja, komunitarianizm, oszczędność, rozwój rachunkowości, krytycyzm, kapitalizm, kultura pisma i druku, odczarowanie, sekularyzacja. To jedynie kilka przykładów zjawisk i wartości wiążących się nierozłącznie z szeroko rozumianą reformacją w kulturze. Samo istnienie reformacji owocuje historycznie pojęciem tolerancji i szacunku dla różnorodności, choć droga do tych wartości nie jest łatwa i bezbolesna.W dniach 22–24 maja 2017 roku odbyła się w Uniwersytecie Łódzkim i Akademii Muzycznej im. Bacewiczów w Łodzi interdyscyplinarna konferencja ze specjalnymi gośćmi z całego świata. W Łodzi obradowali m.in.: Rita Süssmuth (Niemcy), prof. Ian Hazlett (Glasgow, Szkocja), prof. lnes Murzaku (New Jersey, USA), prof. Ivo Pospíšil (Brno, Czechy), prof. Cora Dietl (Giessen, Niemcy), prof. Hans-Jürgen Bömelburg (Giessen, Niemcy).Tom zbiera wybrane aspekty kultury reformacji i reformowania w kulturze. Jest śladem tego, że wielokulturowa Łódź uczciła 500 lat reformacji, która przez dziesięciolecia odcisnęła także swój znaczący ślad w tym mieście.

More...

0.00 €

Values, models, education. Contemporary perspectives

Author(s): / Language(s): English

This volume includes a selection of the papers presented at the International Conference "Education in the Perspective of Values", the XIVth edition, held at the University "Sf. Clement of Ohrid", in Sofia, on October 28th – 29th, 2022.The organizers of this edition were: "1 December 1918" University of Alba Iulia, "Saint Clement of Ohrid" University from Sofia, Bulgaria, University of Primorska, Slovenia, University of Helsinki, Finland, “Babes-Bolyai” University from Cluj-Napoca, Romania – the Doctoral School “Didactics. Tradition. Development. Innovation”, and Moldova State University, Republic of Moldova.

More...

10.00 €

Biblia jako miejsce spotkania wyznań chrześcijańskich

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Tom „Biblia jako miejsce spotkania wyznań chrześcijańskich” pokazuje ideę ekumenizmu i funkcję ekumeniczną Biblii oraz wyjaśnia, dlaczego to tłumaczenie stało się wydarzeniem na skalę światową. Jest efektem eksploracji przedstawicieli różnych dyscyplin nad wspólnym przedmiotem zainteresowania, jakim jest Biblia i jej ekumeniczny wymiar. Zawarte w nim teksty otwierają nowe perspektywy badawcze, przedstawiają pewne aspekty tłumaczenia, które miałoby spełniać funkcję ekumeniczną, ilustrują przejawy idei ekumenizmu w aspekcie historycznym i regionalnym. Przedmiotem szczególnego zainteresowania jest Biblia Ekumeniczna jako dzieło realizujące potrzebę wspólnych tłumaczeń Pisma Świętego, tłumaczenia wspólnego dla wszystkich chrześcijan, niezależnie od przynależności konfesyjnej.

More...

28.00 €

Piastowskie fundacje klasztorów żeńskich w Polsce XIII wieku

Author(s): Anna Agnieszka Dryblak / Language(s): Polish

The monograph offers an analysis of chief convent foundations set up in the thirteenth century by benefactors from Piast dynasty circles. The foundations are shown in a comparative perspective which looks both at the idea of the convent in Western Europe of the early Middle Ages and its receptions in Central Europe. The (somewhat different) origins of female monastic communities in Poland are also presented, with an additional focus on major aristocratic foundations.

More...

18.00 €

Biografia człowieka

Author(s): Jan Kieniewicz,Stanisław Jan Rabiej / Language(s): Polish

The publication of scientific and essay character records a conversation between two university lecturers: a historian and a theologian. An inspiring, intimate, and deeply humanistic book, in which the reader will find not only biographical facts and existential reflections on human fate, but also original presentations of intertwined stories of man, civilization and religion. The authors ask questions and try to answer them together, encouraging the reader to do the same.

More...