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Simbolica sărbătorescului – tradiție și continuitate
Celebrating Symbolism- Tradition and Continuity

Author(s): Delia Suiogan
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Editura U. T. Press
Keywords: celebration; symbol; myth; communication; communion; mediation; belonging;

Summary/Abstract: It is often considered that modern people do not know how to participate in a celebration anymore, that they cannot acknoledge festivity; that everything is taken for granted and as a result, we witness people's allienation from what it is really sacred. Modern people sometimes do grant the right to switch from a daily routine into a totally different mode. No matter if they commit to it totally or partially, one can easily rediscover the hapiness of a feeling of belonging to a higher reality than the previous one. Modern people, self- acknoledged as non- religious people, who try to give up their ancestral heritage of facts, what they consider obsolete ways of being and thinking, consciously in the name of present moment, cannot definitely back off their periodical attitude of escaping from Time and Self. Festivity or celebration, these moments which imply interactions and social communication have the role to mediate order by getting individuals together.

  • Issue Year: XXVI/2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 347-353
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Romanian