Age of the Holy Spirit: The Eon of Inspiration, Spirituality and Harmony between Masculine and Feminine

Author(s): Mădălina Virginia Antonescu / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2015

After defining the concept of the “Age of the Holy Spirit”, we will try to establish a general profile of this civilization and axiological pattern, conceived as opposing and surpassing the obsolete patriarchal model of organizing human society and mentalities. The pro-active and positive, the creative role of the woman in designing, implementing and extending this model are underlined in the first section of the paper. We will also make some references to the relation between the woman and this new civilization and axiological pattern, by presenting the main dichotomist aspects within human societies operating until the present.

Cultural Dimension of Individualism and Collectivism and its perceptual and cognitive Correlates in cross-cultural Research

Author(s): Jiří Čeněk / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2015

This paper reviews the current findings on the dimension of individualism/collectivism, which might be a useful tool for the comparison of different cultures and for the investigation of the effect of culture as a psychological concept on individual mental processes. The validity and reliability of the concept of the dimension of individualism/collectivism is discussed. The related theory of analytic and holistic thinking is introduced within a framework of extensive comparative research in the field of cross-cultural psychology. Several interesting research designs on cross-cultural differences in cognition and perception are described. The empirical part contains a short report of research conducted on a sample (N=92) of Czech and Czech Vietnamese university students using a scale of horizontal and vertical individualism / collectivism (Bartoš, 2010). The results do not fully support the traditional view of individualistic Europeans and collectivistic Asians.

Der demografische Wandel in Europa und die Folgen für Familien

Author(s): Andreas Wittrahm / Language(s): German Issue: 02/2015

Population structure is in transition throughout the European Union. With life expectancy rising and birth rates dropping in most countries, societies are increasingly ageing. As a result, the face of society is also changing: it is becoming progressively older. In addition to demographic changes, cultural changes can also be observed: not only is family size declining, but families are also started later, and motherhood and fatherhood are often detached from the formal establishment of a family. Family policy and social policy must take these changes into account in order to support families in practising mutual care and in their central functions as economic, educational and emotional communities.

Więcej niż teatr, więcej niż media – scena rzeczywistości rozszerzonej

Author(s): Marek Pieniążek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2015

The article discusses the growing process of mediatization of contemporary theater. Analyzing the dozen of chosen performances of contemporary directors (Jay Scheib, Lukas Bangerter, Krzysztof Warlikowski, Krystian Lupa, Wojciech Ziemilski) indicates the specific use of media tools in shaping the events on stage. Characters of the contemporary theater are often created in style of celebrities of pop culture, politics, advertising. The analyzed trends allow to point out the emerging new paradigm of theatrical performances, strongly absorbing current ways of mediatization of reality. The author analyzes the performances in which can we observe transferring the traditionally elements of theatre in the new areas of technological mediatization, manipulation of perception, cognitive convergence and affects. The author also proposes an attempt to codify one of the trends in contemporary theater, in which the main role is played by opening new space of culture, which is a collective experience of Augmented Reality.

Metody sztucznej inteligencji w digitalizacji filozofii

Author(s): Paweł Garbacz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2016

The paper discusses the perspectives of digital philosophy in the context of the formal tools available in Artificial Intelligence. These include, first and foremost, engineering ontologies and the methods of their application. In particular I discuss foundational ontologies, a type of engineering ontologies, which I consider as the basic form of digital philosophy.

ZA IZBJEGLICE NE POSTOJI MJESTO ZVANO DOM

Author(s): Dragana Kaurin / Language(s): Bosnian,Croatian,Serbian Issue: 2/2016

Sredstva narodne pedagogije kao elementi nematerijalnog kulturnog naslijeđa

Author(s): Adnan Tufekčić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 9/2012

U radu se daje prikaz sredstava narodnog odgoja kao što su: poslovice, zagonetke, pjesme (uspavanke, pjesme dječaštva, pjesme mladalačke dobi i pjesme zrelog uzrasta), bajke i narodne priče. Posebno su naglašene pedagoške komponente navedenih sredstava. Svaki narod je kroz prošlost provodio moralni, intelektualni, estetski i etički odabir ovih sredstava odgoja. U narodnoj pedagogiji susrećemo harmonijsko djelovanje različitih elemenata kulturnog naslijeđa koji predstavljaju snažna sredstva odgajanja i transgeneracijskog prijenosa nakupljenih duhovnih bogatstava. Sredstva narodne pedagogije koja dolaze iz sfere usmenog narodnog stvaralaštva predstavljaju značajne elemente našeg nematerijalnog kulturnog naslijeđa koje valja adekvatno nastaviti prikupljati, istraživati i očuvati uvažavajući naučne i kulturološke kriterije na temelju Konvencije o očuvanju nematerijalnog kulturnog naslijeđa koju je usvojila Generalna konferencija Organizacije ujedinjenih nacija za bzrazovanje, nauku i kulturu u Parizu 2003. godine.

Mihail Kogălniceanu’s Monument in Galaţi

Author(s): Viorica-Steluţa Pisică / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2011

The first bust of Mihail Kogălniceanu ever erected was placed in Galaţi, in 1893, only two years after the death of the great Romanian politician. Along time, it underwent a series of changes of location and even small modifications, all of them briefly presented by the present study. Nevertheless, the article focuses on the moments from 1893, surrounding the placement of the bust in Galaţi. The bust was gifted to the Townhall of Galaţi by the great man of culture and politician, V.A. Urechia.

Identitet žene - antropološka i medijska slika

Author(s): Slavica Juka,Ivana Primorac Bilaver / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 2/2013

The paper deals with the issue of woman’s identity through two images: anthropological and media. The key issue is what the basic intellectual theses for creating and identifying a woman’s identity are and who were the main authorities in constructing the woman’s identity? The authors try to answer the questions on which concepts the woman’s identity is based and to which extent that image was taken by media. The special emphasis is put on dualisms and abstract, non-historical, archaic definitions of the woman’s identity. The paper also analyzes qualitative and quantitative role of media in reproducing authentic image of a woman and her identity.

Abandoned Spaces, Mute Memories: on Marginalized Inhabitants in the Urban Centres of Slovenia

Author(s): Katja Hrobat Virloget,Saša Poljak Istenič,Neža Čebron Lipovec,Mateja Habinc / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2016

Article focuses on degraded heritage(s) and their meanings for different groups of inhabitants, interpreting it/them through the studies of dominant and silenced memories. Case-studies of chosen Slovenian urban centres illustrate the consequences of drastic population change after the Second World War and of the transformation of power relations after Slovenia’s independence which brought changes in the political-ideological and economic system. As the authors observed, memories and heritage of Italian, German and Yugoslav inhabitants are often mute and silenced within the contemporary Slovenian hegemonic/authorised heritage discourse. Consequences of changes in social relations were also recognised at the micro level in the valorisation of the socialist heritage of industrial plants and military barracks. Today, these places are left to decay as the material reminders of the unwanted (pre-WWII or socialist) past or they are transformed into centres of youth culture, creative industries or administrative centres. However, such reinterpretation does not enable their former users to access them and claim them as their own heritage.

Književni prostori u svjetlu prostornog obrata

Author(s): Ivana Brković / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 1-2/2013

The paper sheds light on the epistemological postulates of the contemporary spatial turn in humanities and social sciences (space as a social and cultural product, presumptions about the totality of time and space, connection of material and mental spaces, relational aspect of space). Based on the presumption that literary spaces contribute to the social production of space, the paper argues that such spaces are conceptualized as representational phenomena pursuant to the contemporary spatial paradigm. The paper also includes a diachronic survey of the main tendencies in the 20th- and 21st-century conceptualizations of literary space. While studies published prior to the spatial turn illustrate, to a certain degree, valuable but mostly isolated attempts at establishing the theory of literary space, with the appearance of new spatial tendencies from the 1990s, space is gradually becoming an unavoidable reference point for various research fields. Accordingly, the paper concludes that literary space is a complex research topic which defies unequivocal definitions.

Making Sense of the Past: (Re)constructing the Local Memorial Landscape in a Post-Soviet Base in Poland

Author(s): Dominika Czarnecka / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2015

The article focuses on (re)constructing the local memorial landscape in a post-Soviet military base in Poland and the process of forging the local identity of its new inhabitants in the years 1993–2015. These processes, which occurred after thewithdrawal of Russian Federation forces from the base and the establishment of a civilian town, find their reflection in the urban space of Borne Sulinowo and are written into a broader context of state policies and national debates about the past. The aim of the article is to present how the initiative in these processes has gradually shifted from the national level to the local, causing fragmentation and pluralisation of the collective memory. In this context certain significance can be attributed to the need to comply with EU standards, and to the progress of commercialisation of the past related to the development of tourism.

Философия непрерывного образования в контексте развития глобальной культуры

Author(s): Elena Aleksandrovna Pushkareva,Yury Viktorovich Pushkarev / Language(s): Russian Issue: 3/2016

The article examines the characteristics of lifelong education within global cultural environment. The aim of this article is to identify the basic concepts of an individual’s lifelong education which increases development of personal view of the world. The author points out that the leading purpose of lifelong education encompasses not only training and professional development at all levels of the education system, but also transmission of culture in general. Russian education system operates in the context of emerging trends in the contemporary world and is based on the development of high technologies and global culture. The term continuity of education is referred to as following certain cultural traditions. The strategy of education for sustainable development is based on understanding education as a lifelong process. Due to the rapid technical progress of information society, lifelong education is determined by specific educational technologies aimed at developing innovative thinking. People need to update and develop their knowledge and skills to remain innovative and effective in a world of rapid changes. Education is a continuing and ongoing process of learning through life, which contributes to shaping personal view of the world.

Wokól Jarocina

Author(s): Krzysztof Podemski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 04/2015

Reprinted of reportage from the 1984 Jarocin festival, published in the 1980s in an underground press journal.

Hagyományos méhészet a moldvai magyaroknál

Author(s): Péter Halász / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2/2016

In recent centuries Moldavian Hungarians brought the basics of the traditional beekeeping from Transylvania to their homeland, because this peasant craft was more advanced in Transylvania than in the former Etelköz (Moldavia). In the 17th and 18th century, by spreading of Protestantism in Transylvania, wax trade directed to Moldavia, where Greek Orthodox was the major religion, had a great importance. Within Moldavia the area inhabited by mainly Roman Catholic Hungarians (Bacau County) had a prosperous honey and wax production. Until the beginning of the 20th century catching beekeeping was usual, when honey of bee colonies found in tree burrows of the forest were stolen, or the honey was taken home together with the bees, and was held and reproduced in wood churns gouged out. From these churns ( made of wad) the honey was taken out so that the bees were driven out or killed by smoke, then the honey combs, or part of them were cut off by a knife and the honey was filtered out from the wax. A more effective solution was possible by artificially produced, framed churns, at which the beekeepers could follow-up and control the life of bees, and the quantity of their food. The honey was used by the Moldavian Hungarians mainly for food seasoning and as a medicine, and from the wax they twisted especially wax candles. Both products have a great importance, because their uses were linked to many beliefs and habits, from that most served as eliminating of troubles.

Karnevál a hálón. Trollkodás egy sok játékos részvételén alapuló online szerepjáték világában

Author(s): Áron Bakos / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2/2016

Trolling is a notable aspect of computer-mediated communication and online gamer culture. The results of the paper are based on a netnographic research of a community of gamers that primarily play together the Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game, World of Warcraft. The following paper attempts to comprehend the emerging cultural phenomenon of trolling and other non-goal oriented actions in the context of the game, construing it as a carnivalesque and performative element of contemporary online culture.

O papieskich orędziach medialnych. Studium z antropologii komunikacji

Author(s): Aleksander Woźny / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2016

An analysis of the Pope’s addresses for World Mass Media Day shows an interesting tendency, i.e. a gradual shift from the engineering‑communication model to the orchestral‑communication model. According to the former, communication is limited to transmission, and latter sees it as a matrix of culture. The characteristics of orchestral communication gradually intensify in the addresses of John Paul II, Benedict XVI and Francis. In their speeches the mass media are compared to a road, and journalists are “the apostles of the media”. The Internetis referred to as the modern Areopagus, an agora which provides an opportunity to meet and build harmonious relationships. The 2016 address of Pope Francis entitled “Communication and Mercy – a fruitful encounter” clearly demonstrates the use of the orchestral‑communication model which is not limited to information and strongly emphasises the role of communities.

Psychologiczne mechanizmy bezpieczeństwa zdrowotnego

Author(s): Agnieszka Florczak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2016

The article raises a subject of psychological mechanism of health safety. At the beginning of deliberations a term of health with its classic division was introduced. Health is not merely the absence of disease but also a state of physical, social and mental welfare. Hence, health can be divided into physical (somatic) and psychological. Health and safety are considered the most important value for human. Factors affecting health safety are primarily mental, physical and environmental. The article examines the first two. Somatic factors relate to purely biological aspects of life of an organism, while psychological to adaptability and societal. Through appropriate mechanisms psychosphere forms health safety on the one hand, but on the other the mechanisms in some interactions can pose problems that are explained more extensively in the last part of the work.

Mourning for Tomorrow - Hope and Hopelessness in Oncology Wards in Serbia

Author(s): Milica Milić Kolarević / Language(s): English Issue: 19/2015

This paper is designed to show how the space of the clinic powerfully shapes the relationships between oncology patients and their doctors as well as how it informs the relationships between patients themselves. It illustrates how historically particular ideas about citizenship and the role of the state in a postsocialist context of contemporary Serbia produce specific ways through which hoping and hopelessness are manifested. In the space of the clinic the patients’ subjectivities and state hierarchies are amplified by constant engagement with the urgency of decision making, and the immediacy of decay and suffering. Negotiation for possibilities of treatment through the interactions with doctors and medical institutions as fetishized extensions of the state creates distinct strategies deployed by oncology patients to understand one’s future and one’s place in the space of the clinic. It is the goal of this project to pursue a deeper understanding of how the haunting manifestation of fear of the possibility which future brings shapes patients’ understanding of daily living. Unraveling the narratives about illness, fears and expectations of oncology patients in Serbia will lead to grasping their ideas of what it means to be alive in the characteristic context of postsocialist oncology wards in Serbia.

Asset ownership of recent immigrants: An examination of nativity and socioeconomic factors

Author(s): Jinhee Kim,Swarn Chatterjee / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2011

This study uses a nationally representative sample of newly legalized immigrants to the United States to investigate factors related to their financial and non-financial asset ownership. Our analysis examines the ownership of financial assets, homes, and businesses in association with human capital, acculturation, and other demographic variables. The results indicate that household in-come and English fluency are significant predictors of financial, housing and business asset ownership. Other demographic, human capital and acculturation factors have varying effects on asset ownership. Understanding these factors of asset ownership can be useful to practitioners, researchers, and policymakers in developing strategies that can help immigrants integrate into the host country’s society.