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Dusza, ciało i tabu. Studia nad sakralnością praindoeuropejskiego formantu *u w łacińskiej terminologii anatomicznej

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

The author of the monograph Soul, Body and the Taboo investigates the hypotheses of two German scholars of the first half of the 20th century: Franz Specht and Wilhelm Havers, according to whom, one of the Pre-Indo-European formatives—the formative *u—was at its roots deeply connected with the sacred and the supernatural. For that reason, the formative was included in the words denoting objects of sacred, dangerous, supernatural or taboo nature. In her search of the echoes of the formative *u, the author focuses predominantly on the analysis of those body parts which, according to the English philologists James G. Frazer and Richard B. Onians, were supposed to be regarded by thePre-Indo-Europeans as the vessels of the soul, the main object of the taboo. Apart from that, the author analyses the names of organs which played vital parts in the practices of the haruspices, as well as those body parts which could arouse fear due to either the virulent forces residing within them or magical and apotropaic character. The etymological study focuses first and foremost on Latin nomenclature. However, the author refers also to Pre-Indo-European nomenclature and the current state of other Indo-European languages. Theetymological analysis is further strengthened through the cultural study of the beliefs and superstitions of ancient Romans, which they might have inherited from their ancestors.

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Rok 1968. Eto vaše delo

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

The book Rok 1968 Eto vaše delo is based on lecture cycle, organised by the Slovak Institute in Prague in cooperation with the Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute for Contemporary History of the ASCR. The aim of this lecture cycle was to remember about the 40th anniversary of the reform process in Czechoslovakia in 1968. The lectures presented by Slovak historians, were extended and collected as papers, that are part of this book. The aim of the particular papers is to analyse the main aspects of the reforms, further their ideological roots, as well as their political, social and economic casualties. The authors intended to reflect the immanent development of the autonomous reform process in Czechoslovakia, taking into account both political, constitutional, national-political, socioeconomic, cultural and confessional issues. The opening paper written by Professor Ivan Laluha is an authentic testimony about the gradual maturation process, that was proceeding the reforms in the field of economic theory, which is the main field of interest of the author. The author’s goal was to outline the efforts undertaken in order to achieve a further development of reforms in the constitutional and national-political sphere. Jozef Žatkuliak is analysing the genesis of the ideas proposing a new, federal constitution for Czechoslovakia. The key focus of Slavomír Michálek’s study is based on the American political context of the Czechoslovak attempt for reform of Socialism. There is no doubt, that, during that time, the United States of America and the Soviet Union were trying to reach an agreement and that both sides were conducing a bipolar détente politics. On the one hand, in Washington there was a kind of sympathy for the reform process taking place in Czechoslovakia, but on the other hand, it was perceived as an internal problem of the Soviet Bloc. Two following studies writen by Stanislav Sikora are dealing with the ideological background of the Prague or Bratislava Spring, involving a critical analysis of the term „Socialism with human face”. In his study, Miroslav Londák is explaining the main principles of the economic reform in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s by going to the roots and anatomising the process of industrialisation of Slovakia since 1948. Furthermore, Londák is paying close attention to the efforts of Slovak economists undertaken in order to replant the special economic needs of Slovakia; these efforts were closely connected with the preparations for a federalization of the Czechoslovak state. The study of Jan Pešek is dealing with the process of a limited regeneration, under conditions of the Communist regime, of Churches. Elena Londáková is broaching the issue of reform movement in culture. She emphasised, that it were above all the exponents of cultural life, who acted as the pioneers of the reform movement and, in the same time, as the main critics of the whole social and political system.

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The Role of Magic in the Past. Learned and Popular Magic, Popular Beliefs and Diversity of Attitudes

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

Magic in the past in its various forms, perceptions and definitions has been a popular subject of modern Western scholarship for a long time. In the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, in contrast, the issue of magic is still a rather neglected area of study. Apart from the study of witchcraft and apart from ethnologists or anthropologists, whose research interests usually include present or recent case studies and phenomena, the subject of magic has not yet received due attention from historians and other scholars of the humanities of the region. This can be partly explained by the fact that while communist policy with its stress on the class struggle preferred certain topics, mainly political, economic and social history, it practically brought other fields and research interests to a standstill.

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The origin and transformation of Civilization

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

I started writing this book with only one purpose – to define all civilizational concepts. What is the meaning of civilization, art, religion or language? These concepts have been discussed in thousands of books, hundreds of different definitions, but till today there has been no accepted general definition of any of them. Not even for the concept of civilization! There was only one way to set about defining these concepts – to trace their origins, to understand how and why each of them, separately, arose. Why has art become a necessity for humanity? Why were people forced to speak? Why, why and why? At the beginning I was thinking with my brain, an ordinary, Homo sapiens brain, about what I would do if I were living in the conditions of prehistoric people. Why would I speak, why would I draw, why would I cook? And all this led me to the same dead end that I had read about in the books. It was then I understood there had been a mistake. I realized that my way of thinking was the wrong way round. None of the primitive people decided to tame animals, because nobody knew what a tame animal was. None of the primitive people decided to talk, because nobody knew what a language was. None of the primitive people decided to cook, to draw, to get dressed, to formulate religions, because nobody knew what food preparation, art, clothes or religion were. So, how has man created these conditions? The answer is very simple: unconsciously!

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Nicolai Dresdensis Apologia: De conclusionibus doctorum in Constantia de materia sanguinis

Author(s): Petra Mutlová / Language(s): Czech

This book contains a critical edition of Apologia, a Latin treatise written by a Hussite nonconformist Nicholas of Dresden in 1415, whereby the author reacted to the prohibition of the lay chalice, one of the most outstanding symbols of the Hussite movement. The edition comprises a critical apparatus, reassessment of the textual tradition of the text based on surviving manuscript copies as well as an analysis of the structure of the text and its models. The book is primarily aimed at researchers dealing with the Early Bohemian Reformation, nevertheless due to the wider context provided by the critical edition of the material, it will well serve the historians, philologists, lawyers, and theologians as well.

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Slovosledné změny v bulharských a srbských evangelních památkách z 12. a 13. Století

Author(s): Elena Krejčová / Language(s): Czech

This monograph explores word order transformations in some Bulgarian and Serbian Church-Slavonic gospel transcriptions. The changes in word order in these texts are registered as variants to an Old Church-Slavonic text (Codex Marianus) and to the text of Old Greek New Testament. The publication discovers the principles on which the word order in the texts from the 12th and 13th century was organized and finds some differences from the word order in Old Church-Slavonic language. It also focuses on the question of occurrence of some new, progressive tendencies, and new, different word order models.

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Počátky latinské písemné kultury v českých zemích: Nejstarší latinské rukopisy a zlomky v Čechách a na Moravě

Author(s): Dalibor Havel / Language(s): Czech

"The monograph focuses the onset of the Latin written culture in Bohemia and Moravia, especially its sources. Its focus lies on the presentation of manuscript fragments of the early medieval era, which were usually excluded from the codicological discourse or marginalised; most of them are published for the first time. The intrusion of the Latin caroline script in the Bohemian lands is presented on the base of a complex palaeographical and codicological anlysis as a phenomenon, that accompanied the Latin trend of christianisation, which came into the central Danubian region from the ecclesiastical centres of Bavaria during the IXth Cent. From mid-11th century on, the preserved sources show an important transformation: the initial passivity (i. e. dependence of the Bohemian lands upon the import of books from other countries) is transforming into an active participation of Bohemia in the transcriptions of Latin texts. In this period the oldest identifiable scribe school in the Bohemian lands can be traced – the scriptorium in Břevnov monastery founded during the long abbotship of Meginhardus. The book includes coloured pictures of all relevant sources including diagrams visualising the codicological conclusions; codicological and palaeographical registers are added."

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Yurt Dışında Türkler Göçmenlik, Etnisite ve Din

Author(s): / Language(s): Turkish

Elinizdeki bu kitap, Türkiye’den yurt dışına göç eden insanların bulundukları ülkelerdeki göçmenlik halleri üzerine odaklanmaktadır. Çalışmada alanlarında uzman on akademisyen tarafından, Almanya, Fransa, Hollanda, Avusturya, Belçika, Danimarka, İsveç, Norveç, İngiltere ve Amerika’da yerleşik Türk göçmenlerin kültürel, sosyal, ekonomik, etnik ve dinsel yaşam tecrübeleri bütüncül bir bakışla ele alınmaktadır. Ayrıca her bir bölüm, Türk göçmenler tarafından tesis edilen dinî sivil örgütlenmeler etrafında şekillenen dinsel yaşam tecrübeleri üzerine sosyolojik analizleri de ihtiva etmektedir.

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Civilizations of the Supernatural. Witchcraft, Ritual, and Religious Experience in Late Antique, Medieval, and Renaissance Traditions

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

Civilizations of the Supernatural: Witchcraft, Ritual, and Religious Experience in Late Antique, Medieval, and Renaissance Traditions brings together thirteen scholars of late-antique, medieval, and renaissance traditions who discuss magic, religious experience, ritual, and witch-beliefs with the aim of reflecting on the relationship between man and the supernatural. The content of the volume is intriguingly diverse and includes late antique traditions covering erotic love magic, Hellenistic-Egyptian astrology, apotropaic rituals, early Christian amulets, and astrological amulets; medieval traditions focusing on the relationships between magic and disbelief, pagan magic and Christian culture, as well as witchcraft and magic in Britain, Scandinavian sympathetic graphophagy, superstition in sermon literature; and finally Renaissance traditions revolving around Agrippan magic, witchcraft in Shakespeare’s Macbeth, and a Biblical toponym related to the Friulan Benandanti’s visionary experiences. These varied topics reflect the multifaceted ways through which men aimed to establish relationships with the supernatural in diverse cultural traditions, and for different purposes, between Late Antiquity and the Renaissance. These ways eventually contributed to shaping the civilizations of the supernatural or those peculiar patterns which helped men look at themselves through the mirror of their own amazement of being in this world.

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„Wyższa kultura duchowa”. Program i działalność Polskiego Towarzystwa Teozoficznego na Śląsku Cieszyńskim (1919–1931)

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

The book is dedicated to the study of program and activity of the Polish Theosophical Society in Cieszyn Silesia during the years 1919 – 1931 (the period of its most intense, also publishing, activity). The society, for the most part of its existence, was situated on the Czechoslovakian side of the border, and formed by the local historical and cultural conditions; due to that it formulated a distinctive program of which central part was the idea of “higher spiritual culture.”

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Die Religionsgemeinschaften im ehemaligen Jugoslawien

Author(s): Rudolf Grulich,Thomas Bremer / Language(s): German Publication Year: 0

15.1.1. Up to the founding of the state in 1918 15.1.1. Beginnings of Christianity 15.1.2. Croatia and Bosnia in the Middle Ages 15.1.3. The Reformation in the South Slavs 15.1.4 The Eastern Churches 15.1.5. The Ottoman Conquest and Islam 15.1.6. The Catholic Territories in the Baroque, Enlightenment and Nineteenth Century 15.2. Nach der Gründung Jugoslawiens 1918 15.2.1. Die orthodoxen Kirchen 15.2.2. Die katholische Kirche 15.2.3. Der Islam 15.2.4. Die übrigen Religionsgemeinschaften 15.2.5. Ökumenische Beziehungen und die Kriege der neunziger Jahre

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Mișcarea religioasă Oastea Domnului – perspective la centenar (1923-2023)

Author(s): Mihai Liviu Marici / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

A spiritual movement for the spiritual revival of the Romanian Orthodoxy, which began as a call to battle of evangelical nature, against swearing and drunkenness, the most common cancers of society in the era, but also a fight, following strict rules, against sins in general, it became an authentic missionary work of proclaiming the Word of God and entering the depths of the soul of the Christians, renewing the fallen life and establishing the high principles of Christian living, according to the model of the life of the first Christians, becoming a movement of soul – spiritual – revival in the Romanian Orthodox Church. It works to proclaim and spread the Word of God in order to be reborn again. This new life or rebirth could only be reached by learning, living and proclaiming the crucified Christ.

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Simion Mehedinți – pedagog creștin

Author(s): Ioan Puiu / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

Raised in the spirit of the Holy Gospel by his parents, studying at highschool from Roman and Bucuresti, well known then as the creator of Romanian geography teaching, important educator and science man, Simion Mehedinti will preach through his writings and his entire life that, in his opinion, only the Church’s teaching can fully train a man so that he can succeed in life and to gain eternity. Well knowing that the duty of a Christian is to multiply talents, which he plenty had, Simion Mehedinti focused his writings on supporting the youth training so they would gain solid information about the history of their nation, continuously working to improve their professional and moral life and to become the luminary of their nation. Simion Mehedinti is convinced by the fact that the man who believes in God manages to help his brother to reach his best and through this the entire nation can be raised from indifference and the ordinary life. Taking in consideration Simion’s Mehedinti belief that “literature and art are not just useless play, but the supreme effort to remove the dissonances of ordinary life and to gradually lift the soul of the nation” we can understand why most of his work is dedicated to the values of Christianity. The purpose of this study is to answer to several questions like: How was Mehedinti's pedagogy understood by his contemporaries? What Christian pedagogical principles can be found in the works of scholar Mehedinți? What are the qualities of a good educator?

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Unificarea învățământului teologic-seminarial din Principatele Române, prin Legea Instrucțiunii Publice

Author(s): Dănuț Novac / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

The institutional changes that came with the Union of the two Principalities, on January 24, 1859, under Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza (1859-1866), influenced, as expected, the evolution of theological education. In this context, theological seminaries in the country would inevitably go through a series of changes. Thus, between 1859-1864, several steps took place through which the state tried and managed to delimit in a very clear manner the attributions of the church part from those of the political authorities in regulating, monitoring, supporting and carrying out the activities of the Seminaries. The purpose of this text is to present the historical context in which the involvement of the Ministry of Cults and Public Instruction in supervising the activity of seminaries has become predominantly dominant, making the Church play a much diminished role in the life of theological schools. During the present historical analysis we will follow the steps of this educational program that aimed to unify the theological-seminary education of the two principalities

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Efervescenţa imnografic-literară generată de Sărbătoarea Naşterii Maicii Domnului în perioada dintre secolele al VI-lea şi al VII-lea reflectată în cărţile de slujbă ortodoxe

Author(s): Dănuț Băcăuanu / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

The contribution of the ecclesiastical hymnographers to the liturgical transposition of the Church's previous knowledge about the Mother of God, confessed through writings, dogmas, odes and utterances, becomes the supplier of the object of work of the psalts. The pathos and expressiveness of the puppet discourse of the Fathers is induced by the authors of later hymns (the same feeling). The fact that the Apostle James the Little writes the Protoevanghelia that bears his name is a proof of the importance deserved by the Virgin Mary among her contemporaries and in the post-apostolic period. Before him, St. Ignatius the Theophorus and St. Justin the Martyr and the Philosopher record the state of virginity of Mary in the birth of the Son of God. A very short exposition of the mariological ideas encountered in the main Fathers and church writers (III-IV century) confirms that the role of the Virgin Mary could not be minimized to that of a simple woman. The Third Synod (Vth century) opens the horizon of the pre-consecration of the Mother of God and thus becomes the thematic source of her liturgical honor. In the V-VI centuries, the celebration of the event of the birth of the Mother of God is consolidated, mentioned in historical sources since the end of the IV century. It is the period dominated by the hymnographic contribution of St. Roman the Melody. From the vii-th century before the composition of the church services dedicated to the feast of the Nativity of the Mother of God knows a progressive enrichment.

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Elemente mariologice de spiritualitate liturgică în scrierile autorilor creștini timpurii

Author(s): Gheorghiță-Mădălin Ceobanu / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

In our study, we aim to present several mariological elements of liturgical spirituality taken from the writings of early Christian authors: Saint Ignatius of Antioch, Saint Polycarp of Smyrna, Saint Justin Martyr and Philosopher and Tertullian. From the works of the mentioned authors, we will select the scriptural verses referring to the Virgin Mary: Acts 3, 15-16; Acts 49, 11; Isaiah 7, 14; Daniel 2, 34-35; Micah 5, 1-2; Matthew 1, 20; Luke 1, 26-38; and Galatians 4, 4. From the interpretation made by early Christian authors to these verses, we will identify and present the main elements of liturgical spirituality that constitute the theme of the Annunciation feast: the parallel between the old Adam and the new Adam, the parallel between Eve and the Virgin Mary, Eve's disobedience-Virgin Mary's obedience, Eve's disbelief-Virgin Mary's faith, the voice of the serpent-the voice of the angel; the old man-the new man.

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Învățătura creștină despre Sfânta Cruce în creația imnografică a Sfântului Teodor Studitul (759-826)

Author(s): Stelian Gheorghiasa / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

The present study intends to present how Saint Theodore the Studite expresses the Orthodox Christian teaching on the Holy Cross in his hymnography. We began by briefly showing the major importance that the Holy Cross has in the Christian life, both as an object of worship and as a symbol. Continuing we have shown the theological-spiritual meanings about the foreshadowing of the Holy Cross in the Old Testament that Saint Theodore - this great theologian and skilful hymnographer – captures. We conclude with a detailed list of all the hymns dedicated to the Holy Cross that belong to our hymnographer.

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Preoții și Preoția din perspectiva Mitropolitului profesor Irineu Mihălcescu

Author(s): Petru-Ionuț Irimia / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

In the present study, we do not want to make an exhaustive presentation from a liturgical or dogmatic point of view of the Mystery of the Priesthood as it is perceived in the life of the Church, but we want to highlight, by researching the pastorals, speeches and files existing at the Archive of the Metropolitanate of Moldovia and Bukovina, the vision of Metropolitan Irineu Mihălcescu towards this Sacrament, one of the seven of the Church, and his concerns regarding the dress of priests, their behavior during holy services, but also in society, as well as the care to make them aware of the important value of the mission to who were called and which they had to fulfill with responsibility, God offering them the gift of priesthood through the hand of the priest, but, at the appointed time, being also the One who claims from their hands the souls of the faithful whom they received into their care.

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Sfântul Paisie Velicikovski, trăirea și lucrarea duhovnicească în obștea Schitului Sfântul Ilie din Muntele Athos

Author(s): Hrisant Tsachakis / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

It is very well known in the orthodox balkan world that the holy Abbot Paisie Velicikovski from Neamts, is one of the greatest ascetic and spiritual father of our Orthodox Church and represents an example for all Christians. For those who are living in monasteries, he is a model of ascetic effort and spiritual living. He fully fulfills the quality of Christian, monk, abbot and man of culture, being the initiator of an important translation work of patristic, liturgical and canonical writings, a work that he liked very much. Starting his spiritual activities as an Abbot in Mount Athos and the schit of Saint Helias which belongs to Holy Monastery of Pantokrator we try to feel this great and exceptional spiritual work in his brotherhood. From his philological activity and the concern of Saint Paisius for the writings of the great mystical and ascetic fathers of the Church, shows him, without a doubt, as the first Russian, renewer of the monastic life in the balkans, following the Athonite way of life, thus renewing the ascetic tradition and restoring the practice of heart-mental prayer, which had been almost forgotten.

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DİNLER TARİHİ ANABİLİM DALI

Author(s): Rukiye Aysun İnan,Hayriye Özlem Sürer / Language(s): Turkish Publication Year: 0

Dinler Tarihi, günümüzde mensubu olan veya olmayan yeryüzündeki tüm dinleri inceleyen bir bilim dalıdır. Bu incelemeyi yaparken; dinlerin ortaya çıkışlarını, gelişme süreçlerini, inanç, ibadet ve ahlak anlayışlarını, diğer dinlerle benzer, ortak ve farklı yönlerini, dini kurumlarını, dinin kendi içerisindeki gruplarını objektif bir şekilde ele almaktadır. Dinlerin objektif olarak incelenmesiyle; ‘iyi’, ‘kötü’, ‘doğru’, ‘yanlış’ gibi değer yargıları bildirilmeden oldukları gibi tarif edilmesi sağlanmaktadır (Adam, 2016, 19-20). Dinler Tarihi bilmek geçmişte olduğu gibi günümüzde de pek çok açıdan kişiye önemli katkılar sunmaktadır. Tarihte yeni fethedilen yerlerde Müslümanların karşılaştığı diğer dinleri doğru anlamak Dinler Tarihi ile mümkün olmuştur. Günümüze bakıldığında da kitle iletişim araçlarının yaygın kullanımı ve teknolojideki son gelişmelerle beraber küreselleşen dünyada farklı din ve kültürden kişilerin birbirleriyle karşılaşma ihtimali artmıştır. Bu durumlarda Dinler Tarihi bilmek aynı şekilde önemlidir. Bunun yanı sıra; misyonerlik faaliyetlerinin veya yeni dini hareketlerin zararlı etkisinin farkında olmak, İslam’ı daha doğru yorumlamak, Kur’an’ı daha iyi anlamak, Müslüman din adamlarının gayr-ı müslimlere dair doğru bilgi sahibi olmasını sağlayarak din hizmetlerine katkı sunmak gibi konularda Dinler Tarihi bilgisi önemli rol oynamaktadır (Küçük vd., 2020, 16- 17; Adam, 2016, 23-24).

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