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Education, religion and interculturality at Romanian people
Education, religion and interculturality at Romanian people

Author(s): Dorin Opriş
Subject(s): Education, History of Church(es), Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, 17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century
Published by: Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai
Keywords: education; religion; values; interculturality; church;

Summary/Abstract: One dominant of the current era is the access to different values, which determines the interest in understanding their place in the actual society. We are therefore facing a new cultural model, defined by meeting and more pronounced testing of cohabitation of cultures until recently located in a deep antagonism. One of the great questions which arises in this context is related to how religion as a major problem throughout mankind’s history, contributed to reaching this phase. This study aims to present the most important contributions of the Romanian Orthodox Church clergy from the XVII-XIX centuries, who agreed to assume modernity not only in personal or social exploitation of more diverse models, validated after meeting with people or different cultural models, but especially in the educational plan. School is thus not only the place where values of a historic period are heading to, but the environment in which they are integrated and presented to the world with new formative values based on various identity contours. During recall, many Romanian metropolitan are identified today as the true precursors of today’s intercultural openings, through their insistence on developing schools and placing them on the opening lines to national and European values.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 9
  • Page Range: 1-13
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: English