The Organization of Activities of the MAcedonian Orthodox Church

The Organization of Activities of the MAcedonian Orthodox Church

Author(s): Slave Nikolovski-Katin / Language(s): English / Issue: 06/1999

Keywords: Macedonian Orthodox Church; Republic of Macedonia; macedonian diaspora;

The Macedonian Orthodox Church as an autocephalous one is a part of the Holy Ecumenical Apostolic Church. It preserves the dogmas, canons and unity of the liturgy with the Eastern Orthodox Church and has an unique organization of the independent management of the church activities. It also protects the Bible, the rules of all ecumenical and indigenous Councils, as other autocephalous orthodox churches do, and discards all other schismatic teachings. It is steered in accordance with the Bible the Holy Traditions, the Apostolic Rules and the Constitution of the Macedonian Orthodox Church. The head of the autocephalous Macedonian Orthodox Church is the Archbishop that hold the title "Archbishop of Ohrid and Macedonia". The organization and the activity of the Macedonian Orthodox Church is also in the frames of the Constitution and the laws of the Republic of Macedonia in order to serve the Orthodox believers of the state.

Logic and Culture

Logic and Culture

Author(s): Momčilo Stojković / Language(s): English / Issue: 06/1999

Keywords: logic of values; reality judgments; value judgments; conclusion;

Logic and culture, two different and, some would say, incompatible (noncorresponding) terms, are still connected with logic of values. In other words, logical conclusion (regardless how much it is based on reality judgments), is influenced (determined) by a given culture and a system of values within that culture. Logic does deal with reality judgments, but logic of values deals with value (normative) judgments and those judgments neither claim nor refuse that something is(or isn't), but they represent demands referring to people to do or not to do something in order to accomplish the goals (values) that community longs for. Value judgments are not, like reality judgments are, true or false, they are right or wrong. Logical judgment and conclusion itself is determined by the goals/values of a given culture.

An Outlook on Sociology

An Outlook on Sociology

Author(s): Dragan M. Todorović / Language(s): English / Issue: 06/1999

review of: Ljubiša R. Mitrović, "Sociology", Institute for Political Studies / Association "Science and Society" of Serbia, Belgrade, 1997, p. 1-552.

Orthodox Christianity and the Development of the Serbs in the Eighteenth Century

Orthodox Christianity and the Development of the Serbs in the Eighteenth Century

Author(s): Bogdan Đurović / Language(s): English / Issue: 06/1999

The Orthodox religion, coupled with the Kosovo mythology, directly participated in creating social mentality among the Serbs, while offering, as a model of the "inner-world" asceticism, a heroic death for national causes ("for the noble cross and golden freedom") or stoic endurance of the humiliation in slavery (modeled after the Christian martyrs). The view of the future that would be deprived of suffering and humiliation assumed as its eschatological objective the "heavenly kingdom" for the former generations and the "new Serbian empire" for the future ones. Such a model of the "inner-world" asceticism, in its turn, contributed to "forsaking the world", that is, to a passive attitude toward everyday engagement in the work that would be founded upon strictly organized and rational principles. The assumption that the Orthodox Christianity, as an identifier, participated in preserving the national identity of the Serbs is correct, but it should not be ignored that there were other factors at work as well - especially the mythology that gathered around the "myth of Kosovo". Still, in the recent history of the New Age (18th-19th centuries), when the Serbs started their liberation process trying to re-connect themselves with the European civilization the Orthodox religion not only failed to contribute to the modernization processes but it was most often in conflict with them.

Marxist Theoreticval and Methodological Approach and Orientation in the Sociology of Education

Marxist Theoreticval and Methodological Approach and Orientation in the Sociology of Education

Author(s): Miomir Ivković / Language(s): English / Issue: 06/1999

Keywords: sociology of education; theoretical-methodological approach and orientation; dialectical-materialist teaching; humanism; class character of education; reproduction of the social system;

The paper first states that there are two dominant theoretical-methodological approaches and orientations in the sociology of education, namely, the functionalist and the Marxist ones. It also states that nowadays papers with other orientations are more often to be found, including the structuralist, the existentialist, the interactionist, the liberalist, the ethno-methodological, the analytical, and others. The introduction briefly gives an explanation while, at the same time, it makes a distinction between the theoretical orientations and the methodological approaches. The core of the paper gives, in summary, an explanation of six elements of the Marxist theoretical-methodological approach and orientation or of the historical-dialectical materialism, as this teaching came to be called in philosophy and science. The initial framework implies the assumption that education is socially-conditioned and that it has a class character in the class society. Further, the teaching about man and his nature, stating that he is a creative, active and practical being, is presented together with the teaching about the humanist character of education. Finally, the teaching about the importance of education for the reproduction of a particular socio-economic system as well as the reproduction of its respective ideology is stressed.

Work Upon Tolerance of the Opposing Standpoints in Philosophy

Work Upon Tolerance of the Opposing Standpoints in Philosophy

Author(s): Pavle B. Bubanja / Language(s): English / Issue: 06/1999

On some moments of the idea stated in a philosophical work: Dialectics of the German Classical Philosophy by Professor Gligorije Zaječaranović, Ph. D. --------------------------------------------------------------------- We have tried here, in brief, to point to some important philosophical issues and problems - though they are numerous and fruitful in the philosophical works of Professor Gligorije Zaječaranović - that were considered and developed by Professor G. Zaječaranović in his successful career devoted to philosophy and research. The dialectical and humanist philosophical beliefs and strivings that have mainly characterized the philosophical work of professor Zaječaranović reveal, in an original and visionary way, a philosophical world that is, in the dialectics of concrete totality, essentially, legitimately, generally-valued and humanistically ordered.

Prophets of the "New Truth" (Sects and Cults)

Prophets of the "New Truth" (Sects and Cults)

Author(s): Dragan Koković / Language(s): English / Issue: 06/1999

review of: Dragoljub B. Đorđević, Proroci "nove istine": sekte i kultovi, JUNIR and Otvoreni klub, Niš, 1998

On the Necessity of Cooperation and Communication

On the Necessity of Cooperation and Communication

Author(s): Dragana R. Mašović / Language(s): English / Issue: 06/1999

The paper is prepared as part of the research project "Sociocultural Adaptation of the Roma in Serbia in the Transition Processes – Integration, Assimilation or Segregation?", sponsored, in the research period 1998-2000, by the Research Support Scheme

Zaječaranović's Contribution to the Interpretation of the German Idealism

Zaječaranović's Beitrag zur Interpretation des Deutschen Idealismus

Author(s): Dragan Jakovljević / Language(s): German / Issue: 06/1999

Mit seiner Ende der 60-er veröffentlichten Auslegung von Dialektikkonzeptionen innerhalb des sog. "deutschen Idealimsus" hat Prof. Zaječaranovic einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Philosophiegeschichtsschreibung geleistet. Die Bedeutsamkeit dieser Auslegung besteht vor allem in einer gelungenen Verknüpfung geschichtlich-hermeneutischer und strukturalistisch-typologischer Betrachtungsweise, sowie im Versuch der Anwendung eines anthropologischen Ansatzes, demzurfolge es eigentlich die Beurteilung menschlicher Praxis jene Instanz gewesen ist, die unterschiedliche Gestalten der Dialektik bei Kant, Fichte, Schelling und Hegel generiert hat.

An Opportunity for Roma: Interculturalism in Education

An Opportunity for Roma: Interculturalism in Education

Author(s): Dragoljub B. Đorđević,Dragana R. Mašović / Language(s): English / Issue: 06/1999

Keywords: Roma; interculturalism in education;

Regarding the sphere of education, it has been shown that hte Roma ale almost with no schooling. They are without chance for bilingual schooling from pre-school to University age. This dishonorable state that every modern European country should be ashamed of seems to be liable to slow and painless changes by introducing the program of intercultural education. Indeed, the possibility for establishing an intercultural education system is an enormous opportunity for the Roma. At the same time, it is an opportunity for our community to prove that it moves toward the modern civil society establishment. However, it is also necessary to view these chances realistically. there are many barriers to overcome by interculturalism, since there is a gap between, on one hand, one theoretical concept and human striving and, on the other hand, the achieved critical and qualitative state of the subjective consciousness of most non-Roma and Roma concerning the intercultural model and objective chances for its realization.

Anti-Cult Movement: A Possible Expression of Religious Intolerance

Anti-Cult Movement: A Possible Expression of Religious Intolerance

Author(s): Dragoljub B. Đorđević / Language(s): English / Issue: 06/1999

Keywords: anti-cult movement; religious intolerance; new religious movements;

The author points to the misunderstandings present in sciences of religion as well as on the Yugoslav public stage about the comprehension and designation of different types of religious organizing. Disputes are particularly prominent about cults and newly established sects, i. e. new religious movements, primarily in the media. Big domiciliary churches help towards this, pronouncing all sects and cults, with no exception whatsoever, to be satanic, totalitarian and destructive quasi-religious phenomena. All this together gave rise and helped the establishment of an uncivilized anti-cult movement. The mentioned movement ("the anti-cult movement in the Serbian variant", as called by the author), arising in the absence of the pre-cult as a necessary balance, is not only an expression of religious intolerance, but its generator itself. The author backs up his attitudes by empirical documentation and allows for an insight into the collage of extremely anti-cult newspaper headlines, as well as into the reactions and letters of institutions and individuals provoked by this indecent public campaign.

Romas in Serbia

Romas in Serbia

Author(s): Dragoljub B. Đorđević / Language(s): English / Issue: 06/1999

review of: A. Mitrović, G. Zajić, V. Đerić and V. Rakić-Vodinelić, Romas in Serbia, Centar za antiratnu akciju & Institut za kriminološka i sociološka istraživanja, Belgrade, 1998, p. 128

Religious and Sociocultural Dimensions of the Kazalbashi Community in Bulgaria

Religious and Sociocultural Dimensions of the Kazalbashi Community in Bulgaria

Author(s): Vesselin Bosakov / Language(s): English / Issue: 06/1999

Keywords: Kazalbash community; Shiite division of Islam;

In the paper the Kazalbash community is regarded to be an ethnoreligous community pertaining to the Shiite division of Islam. Its native language is Turkish. The religious cread represents a message addressed to the community. The basic tenets of the doctrine are analyzed and compared to the Sunni confession. The organization of the Kazalbash religious community (the jam) is briefly described. The discussion is based on the conception that consciousness (in the case religious consciousness) is an ontolocical component of social reality. Both the holiday and the everyday dimension of Kazalbash social life are closely connected to their religious doctrine. For this reason the religious and sociocultural dimensions of the community interpenetrate to form a syncretic whole. What is more, the holiday and everyday life provide the specific characteristics of the culture. Hence the definition of the characteristics of the Kazalbash community's sociocultural model is possible only in the context of the knowledge of the principles and presciptions of the religious doctrine that determines the structure of this community.

New Social Paradigm: Habermas' Theory of Communicative Action

New Social Paradigm: Habermas' Theory of Communicative Action

Author(s): Ljubiša R. Mitrović / Language(s): English / Issue: 06/1999

Keywords: Communicative Action; Rational Discourse; Communicative Mind; Communicative Community; Post-Marxism;

The paper discusses the contribution of J. Habermas to the foundation of a new social paradigm in the form of the communicative action theory. The author first gives a global survey of Habermas's intellectual development, starting from Marx through the critical theory to post-Marxism that Habermas finally left behind since oriented towards convergence and integration of the social action theory, the system theory and the symbolic interactionism theory. Unlike Marx's paradigm of production and social labor as the basic category Marxist theory is built upon, Habermas has built a new paradigm of the communicative action focused upon the communicative mind, communication and rationality as well as the communicative community. The author critically points to the values as well as inner limits of Habermas's theory that reduced a complex and controversial class nature of the society to the "communicative community" thus promoting idealistic worship of the role of the rational discourse.

Professor Gligorije Zaječaranović's Theory of Logic

Professor Gligorije Zaječaranović's Theory of Logic

Author(s): Svetislav Jarić / Language(s): English / Issue: 06/1999

This paper contains a condensed analysis of Gligorije Zaječaranović's latest publication, Logic. The book is represented as the most complete expression and thus the best illustration of G. Zaječaranović's exceptional qualities as a philosopher, logician, pedagogue and writer. Hence the comments on the many virtues of Logic - the chief among them being the philosophical foundation of logic, the revaluation of symbolic logic as opposed to traditional formal logic and, no less important, the lucidity and coherence of the argument - often expand into a general assessment of G. Zaječaranović's entire work. For numerous reasons, ranging from the enormous erudition combined with the originality of thought to the personal life-style, the author of this paper assigns Professor Zaječaranović the status of a living classic in the tradition of our philosophical discourse.

Rozhen in 1987

На Рожен през 1987 година

Author(s): Stoyanka Boyadzhieva / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1/1988

A Contribution to the Study of the Relation between Revivalist Consciousness and Folklore (On the Occasion of the Newly Discovered “Songbook” of Bacho

Към общуването на възрожденското съзнание с фолклора (По повод на новоиздирена „песнопойка” на Бачо Киро)

Author(s): Ivan Radev / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1/1988

Slavyanskiy Fol’klor. Texty. Sostaviteli N. I. Kravtsov, A. Y. Kulagina. Moskva, 1987

Славянский фольклор. Тексты. Составители Н. И. Кравцов, А. В. Кулагина. Москва, 1987

Author(s): Radost Ivanova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1/1988

Symposium on the Problems of Professionalism in Folklore and in Medieval Song Writing and Performance

Симпозиум по проблемите на професионализма във фолклора и средновековната певческа практика

Author(s): Nataliya Rashkova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1/1988

The Folk-Creative Tradition and Literary Processes in the Bulgarian National Revival Period (With Emphasis on the Work of P. R. Slaveikov)

Народнотворческата традиция и литературните процеси в българското Възраждане (С оглед на творчеството на П. Р. Славейков)

Author(s): Kamen Mihaylov / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1/1988

The article aims to include the unjustifiably underrated non-standard folklore forms in the mainstream of artistic development. Attention specifically focuses on the proslov (a term proposed by the author and translatable loosely as “pro-word”) by defining, on the one hand, its links to the well-known folk genres as proverb, anecdote, humorous story and, on the other, pointing out those specific features which necessitate its separate treatment. On the basis of contemporary folklore material and of material from the period of the Bulgarian National Revival, an attempt is made to reconstruct such forms. Discussion of the material focuses on the search and identification of the mutual links between oral and written literary forms within the large context of Slaveikov’s works. The interactions observed are presented consistently in terms of genre structures, historical poetics and stylistics. The main results have been presented within literary, general cultural and socio-psychological frame of reference. The model of interaction establishes translation as the basic mechanism which builds up ambivalent expression, expands the types of communications and conditions, the ways of presenting a situation. The mechanism has been traced in P. R. Slaveikov’s poetical, satirical and journalistic heritage.