"A vallási élet elemi formái"-tól "A média rítusai"-ig: durkheimi fogalmak a kommunikációelméletben

Author(s): Eszter Bartha / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 18/2012

The essay gives a critical review of The Rituals of the Media by Lajos Császi. It seeks to showhow the Durkheimian sociology of religion can be applied to the modern communicationtheory and what perspectives such a combination can store for sociology. The mediahas a significant impact on the formation of public opinion; therefore, its rituals deservea special attention. However, the opinion forming power of the media depends on thesocial structure and the movement of the masses. Today even ordinary people can broadcastInternet TV-programmes and we have not even mentioned the technical possibilitiesoffered by the various social network sites. It is not only the technical competence, whichdetermines whether a given opinion will remain embedded in a narrow subculture or itsucceeds to move the masses, which was a well-loved catchword of the 20th century

"Continuities and discontinuities. Educational program of The Planned Parenthood Association in Krakow (1957 – 1993)"

Author(s): Barbara Klich-Kluczewska / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2014

The article presents the program of sexual education prepared and offered by Krakow Branch of the Planned Parenthood Association in the wider context of socio-political situation in Krakow (1956 – 1989). Since the beginning of the Association’s existence, the special attention was paid to the development of educational program, which concerned the different aspects of „family life“. The article is going to answer the questions about its goals, the educational tools used to achieve them and its social targets. To accurately determine the position of the Association in the city‘s community I will analyse its foundation and activities in wider context of the pre-war traditions of the organisation and the activities regarding premarital counselling undertaken by the Krakow Catholic Church.

"Directiveness" as a Predictor of Religious Attitudes

Author(s): Agnieszka Turska-Kawa,Waldemar Wojtasik / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2017

This paper examines the relation between "directiveness" and levels of religiosity (conceptualized as the three dimensions of "closing-opening," "clericalization-secularization," and "dogmatism-permissiveness"). The model used has been empirically verified and is a consequence of previous studies proving that religiosity in itself generates both pro-social attitudes (especially in regard to an individual's own religious group) and attitudes of aggression toward "outgroups." Researchers have also demonstrated that religion can be a factor that inhibits actual aggression through values such as self-control of negative emotions or impulsive acts. This study finds that the model presented is statistically significant in terms of dimensions such as "closing-opening" and clericalization- secularization: higher directiveness makes it possible to predict higher "closing" and clericalization. This finding makes it possible to discuss directiveness as a foundation for real aggression and attitudes of discrimination against individuals or groups that pose a symbolic or real threat to the unity of the Roman Catholic community.

"Eli, Eli , lema sabachthani" (Mt 27,46). Aramejskie wyrażenia w greckim tekście Nowego Testamentu

Author(s): Piotr Ostanski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2016

There is no doubt that in Jesus’ times the three ancient languages, Hebrew, ramaic, and Greek were commonly spoken in Roman Palestine. It is also beyond discussion that Jesus’ mother tongue was ramaic.

"Ewangelia dziecka" - kilka refleksji o potencjale religijnym dziecka

Author(s): Lidia Marszalek / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2015

Early and middle childhood is the best time for shaping religiosity of a child because religious structures of holistic character. Childhood is characterised by significant openness and religious readiness. Sensitivity to religion is much stronger in case of children than in case of adults, because this experience is purely intuitive, and it is not contaminated with reasonable intellectualism. The relation with God goes beyond an intellectual ground and it takes place deep inside at the existential level, therefore children, because of their special qualities, have exceptional abilities of experiencing this relation in an intuitive way.The following treatise is to characterise the special character of a child’ religiosity in the context of their natural qualities of development and to determine the aspects which make the direct contact with God so “unique and inimitable” in case of children.

"UNIWERSYTET JEST NAJWAŻNIEJSZY”. Stefana Sawickiego idea katolickiej universitas studiorum

Author(s): Henryk Duda / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2017

The article discusses the publications by Stefan Sawicki (a scholar born in 1927) on the idea of the Catholic university. According to Sawicki, the most important issue in this fi eld is the relation between science and faith (ratio et fides), and the resulting question about the university’s identity, in particular about the marks of a Catholic university. The other issues, such as procedures of giving names to Catholic universities, their research fi elds, the proper size of a Catholic university, and the balance between the university’s openness to ‘others’ and its guarding its identity, stem directly from this crucial issue. While Stefan Sawicki’s writings will not provide a ready-made answer to the question of how a Catholic university should be structured or how it should function at a given time in history, they may inspire a “reflection and debate on what the university of this type should (and can) be like today, in particular in modernday Poland” (Stefan Sawicki, On the Catholic University, Lublin: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL, 2012, 8). Sawicki adds: “It might be commendable not to limit the debate in question to the general formulas of the Catholicity of a university, but rather to point how the Catholicity in question should be implemented in the academic practice” (ibidem). The questions raised by Sawicki pertain to an issue which cannot be disregarded also outside the scope of his work.

"Vy máte iného ducha!" Žilinská deklarácia - národno-politický aspekt slovenského evanjelického reformného hnutia

Author(s): László Matus / Language(s): Slovak / Issue: 1/2015

The constitution of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Kingdom of Hungary was established by the 1891-94 synod. This constitution had a tendency towards centralization and greatly restricted the autonomy of the church. The centralized administration rendered it possible for the leaders of the church to reduce the autonomy of Slovak Lutherans, who had majority in the Cis-Danubian district, by redrawing the borders of the districts. In the new districts the Slovak Lutherans found themselves in minority everywhere, losing their influence on decision making.This lead to the Žilina Declaration, which was signed by 68 north-west Hungarian Slovak congregations at the end of 1912 and the beginning of 1913. The declaration criticised the centralization and the concomitant tendencies towards Hungarian linguistic and the ideological nationalization of the church, and it even raised the issue of forming autonomous Slovak districts.The present study analyses the political context of the above mentioned document. The author uses primary sources because the topic lacks historiographical literature. The first research question of the study is whether the co-operation of the Slovak congregations was as an ad-hoc association or, rather, the result of the mobilisation of an institutionalized group. The second research question discusses the various representations of the relevance of the aforementioned congregational co-operation in the Slovak national narrative. In order to answer these questions the author relies on both political science theories and secularisation theories.

"Wiara i poszukiwanie Boga". Lumen fidei w perspektywie teologii religii

Author(s): Bogdan Ferdek / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2014

Lumen Fidei (The Light of Faith) is intended as the guiding magisterial document for the Year of Faith. Faith is the gateway to salvation. To reach eternal , it is necessary to have been baptized sacramentally and to die sincerely professing the Catholic faith.

(Christian) Bioethical Dilemmas in Using Synthetic Biology and Nanotechnologies

Author(s): Antonio Sandu,Ana Caras (Frunza) / Language(s): English / Issue: 35/2013

Ethical dilemmas raised by the use of nanotechnology in medical practice can be viewed from several perspectives: religious spiritualist perspective, the perspective of human dignity (nanotechnologies can be thought of as an affront to human dignity), the issue of controversial choice. The article aims to expose some bioethical dilemmas in using synthetic biology and nanotechnologies. Nowadays is often brought into discussion the fact it is possible to appear in the future new human species resulted not via natural selection and evolution, but through the demiurgic effect of technology development in areas such as: synthetic biology, genetics, neurobiology and neurosciences, prosthesis technology and not least of artificial intelligence research. We will also refer into this paper at the possible raised challenges to ethicists who are oriented towards an ethics of species. Those challenges are raised right from the dawn of a consciousness of species, a social construction generated by changes of the meaning of belonging to humanity. During our article we argue that medical technology, especially genetics, medical assisted human reproduction and not least synthetic biology, require a rethinking ethical meanings of applying those technologies in everyday practices.

(Hiper)produkcija čuda i čudesnih dela: značenja narodnih i crkvenih interpretacija i njihov značaj za proces desekularizacije u Srbiji

Author(s): Lidija Radulovic / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 4/2012

Over the last 20 years, miracles and miraculous acts have been an important part of the multi-layered process of desecularization in Serbia. The Serbian Orthodox Church is trying to revitalize orthodoxy as interpreted by the church and draw in as many believers as possible. At the same time, the folk orthodox variant of Christianity is being revitalized among the faithful, mostly through populist interpretations with elements of folk religion. This paper analyzes the public production of miracles in Serbia based mostly on material drawn from the media, but also on personal testimonies of informants who have witnessed such events.

(Nie)zwykle znaczenie pedagogiki dialogu w teorii nauczania religii

Author(s): Anna Zellma / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2016

The theory of religious education holds a very important place in the Polish catechetics. It is continuously enriched with new issues, determined by the social and educational situation, that are significant from the point of view of practice. Some of them are integrally interwoven with pedagogy. Such issues include analyses related to the processes of communication between the religious education teacher and the students or to developing a dialogue approach in the participants of the religious education classes.

2012-2015 Yılları Arasında Din İşleri Yüksek Kuruluna İntikal Eden Soruların Yaygın Din Eğitimi Açısından Değerlendirilmesi

Author(s): Kamil Çostu / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 2/2017

One of the main tasks of the Presidency of Religious Affairs is to inform the society with religious aspects. To serve this purpose the highest unit of the institution is the High Board of Religious Affairs. 147,718 questions with religious content were totally addressed to the board between the years 2012-2015 which is more than the whole period of 1965-2000. In this research questions addressed to the board between the years 2012-2015 are turned into tables according to gender, educational status, age, area of living etc. and this digital data in terms of religious subjects is examined from the view of informal religious education. Based on this data to solve the problematic areas of religious education of the society we have observed the responsibilities of active actors such as institutions, organizations, audio visual media and faculties with high religious education.

25. rocznica strajków studenckich w Łodzi – droga do legalizacji Niezależnego Zrzeszenia Studentów w Polsce (1981–2006)

Author(s): Innocenty Marek Rusecki / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2007

This article presents the course of Lodź students' strikes, who in 1981 acted against the authorities of the Polish People's Republic (PRL) policy, concerning higher education They demanded introducing a lot of changes. Their strikes provided strong impetus for other students in Poland, who conseąuently started their own waves of strikes. The result of those strikes was establishing the first Independent Association of Students in Poland. In the first part of the article, the author outlined the communists' coming to power, strengthening it, as well as their style of ruling. That was a background for presenting the circumstances of students'strikes in Lodź, their demands, their talks with the state authorities and the Independent Association of Students coming into existance. The second part of the article presents the Catholic Church in Poland, its social role in the years of the communistic regime, which started in 1945, and Lodź Church special part during the srikesof 1981. According to the author, today, when there are trials to ignore or falsify some facts and events from the latest Polish history, it is essential to hold in reverence those wonderful episodes which reveal human's right to freedom, dignity, subjective treatment, and last but not least, to have all their rights guaranteed by the Constitution, respected by the ruling authorities. The author hopes that the present article will contribute to a long process of Polish national history cleansing and to showing it in the proper light. This article is dedicated to all of those who were involved in students' strikes, as a token of remembrance and gratitude.

45. Sympozjum Wykładowców Liturgiki w Wydziałach Teologicznych i Wyższych Seminariach Duchownych (Lublin, 8–10 września 2009)

Author(s): Janusz Mieczkowski,Jaroslaw A. Superson SAC / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2009

W dniach 8–10 września 2009 roku odbyło się w Lublinie Sympozjum Wykładowców Liturgiki pt. Kult Świętych – Nowe „Martyrologium Romanum”. Temat ten został wybrany w związku z planami opublikowania w języku polskim tej księgi liturgicznej.

46. Sympozjum Wykładowców Liturgiki na Wydziałach Teologicznych i w Wyższych Seminariach Duchownych (Katowice, 7–9 września 2010)

Author(s): Adelajda Sielepin,Jaroslaw A. Superson SAC / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2/2011

W dniach 7–9 września 2010 roku odbyło się w Katowicach sympozjum wykładowców liturgiki pt. Ordinatio presbyterorum. Liturgia, teologia, ministerium (do Soboru Trydenckiego). Obrady miały miejsce w auli Wydziału Teologicznego na Uniwersytecie Śląskim. Zebranych przywitali: abp Damian Zimoń, ordynariusz katowicki, ks. dr Jerzy Paliński, rektor Wyższego Seminarium Duchownego w Katowicach, ks. dr hab. Czesław Krakowiak, prof. KUL, przewodniczący Sekcji Liturgistów Polskich, i gospodarz ks. dr hab. Andrzej Żądło, prof. UŚ, dziekan Wydziału Teologicznego.

48. Sympozjum Wykładowców Liturgiki na Wydziałach Teologicznych i w Wyższych Seminariach Duchownych

Author(s): Janusz Mieczkowski,Jaroslaw A. Superson SAC / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2012

W dniach 11–13 września 2012 roku w Kalwarii Zebrzydowskiej odbyło się 48. Sympozjum Wykładowców Liturgiki na Wydziałach Teologicznych i Wyższych Seminariach Duchownych. W tym roku organizatorem był Instytut Liturgiczny Uniwersytetu Papieskiego Jana Pawła II w Krakowie. Tematem sympozjum były Reforma i odnowa liturgii po Soborze Watykańskim II. Oprócz ponad 70 liturgistów w sympozjum wzięli udział: abp Damian Zimoń, bp Stefan Cichy oraz przewodniczący Komisji ds. Liturgii i Dyscypliny Sakramentów Episkopatu Polski bp Adam Bałabuch.

7. Walne Zebranie Stowarzyszenia Biblistów Polskich i 48. Sympozjum Biblistów Polskich (Tarnów, 7–9 września 2010)

Author(s): Stanislaw Wronka / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2011

Tegoroczne spotkanie biblistów polskich miało miejsce w gmachu Wyższego Seminarium Duchownego w Tarnowie, dokąd powrócili po 25 latach. W spotkaniu uczestniczyło prawie 150 osób, głównie członkowie Stowarzyszenia Biblistów Polskich, ale także paręnaście osób nienależących do niego.

70 ani de la trecerea în lumea celor drepţi a Mitropolitului Gurie Grosu al Basarabiei

Author(s): Vasile Secrieru / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 3-4/2013

Metropolitan Efrem Enăchescu was an illustrious personality. He was a Bishop of Bessarabia from 1941-1944. He was born in 1893 in Vîlcea county. He took vows in 1908 and carried on an extensive ecclesiastical activity. He is the author of works: An overview of Christian monarhism (2 volumes), Râmnicu Vâlcea, 1933-1934, 223 + 236 p.; On the relics of the ancestors, Bucharest 1938, 176 p. Efrem Enăchescu died in 1968 at the monastery Cernica. The name of this precursor deserves to be known by all believers in Moldova

75 lat obecności bł. Urszuli Ledóchowskiej i jej Zgromadzenia w Łodzi 1922–1997

Author(s): Andrzeja Górska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/1998

Czym ma być dla nas ten Jubileusz? Przede wszystkim serdecznym wspominaniem minionych lat, a także uroczystym i radosnym dziękczynieniem Bogu i ludziom za przeżyty czas, za dokonane dzieła, za wszystkich i wszystko, czym nas Pan Bóg obdarzył; za wszystkie widoczne, a czasem niedostrzegalne dla ludzkich oczu łaski, dobrodziejstwa i doświadczenia; za te wszystkie tajemnice radosne, bolesne i chwalebne, które wypełniają każde ludzkie życie zarówno życie osobiste, jak i życie wspólnot i społeczeństw, wśród których i dla których żyjemy, pracujemy i które współtworzymy.

7th European Conference of Iranian Studies (ECIS), Krakkó 2011. szeptember 7-11.

Author(s): Miklós Sárközy / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 3-4/2011