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This paper seeks to explore in a common framework micro-spaces of secular life and macro-spaces of natural environment, both categories sharing a transcendental significance in Romanian folk religious Orthodoxy. The natural space on which this research focuses is the water source, seen as an ancient location of collective sacrifices and offerings, seasonal rituals and social gatherings.
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This paper aims to analyze the place of religion in the Romanian society and politics, by focusing specifically on the process of readjusting religious freedom in Romania after 1990. Although the regulation of religious life in accordance with international human rights principles was considered one of the cornerstones of the Romanian democracy, the replacement of the communist legal framework with a new one took more than 17 years and was accompanied by numerous tensions among the religious actors themselves, state institutions and civil society organizations.
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The current paper analyses the intricate relationship between Judeo-Christian values and democracy, understood not in its historical sense, but in connection to the network of social shared meanings that are required for supporting democratic cultures.
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Review of the book "Peeling the Onion / Beim Häuten der Zwiebel" by Günter Grass.
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How does denial affect societies in conflict? What is the role of denial, when it is shared, social and collective, in shaping and affecting the dynamics of conflict? Narrowing down these broad questions, in this text I focus on defining collective states of denial as well as on analyzing efforts to break such cultures of denial as taken by those in society who choose to voice alternatives to war. Looking at the Israeli society and its reactions to the eruption of the second intifada (in 2000), I discuss anti-occupation activism as combating collective states of denial.
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In the first part of the text are presented various cases of concealing the truth about past in countries from Germany to Turkey. The second part of the text points to the need for the investigation of the recent past in Serbia.
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Review of the book Hannah Arendt, Responsibility and Judgment, edited and with an introduction by Jerome Kohn.
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Review of the book "Politik und Schuld. Die zerstörerische Macht des Schweigens" by Gesine Schwan.
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The issue of responsibility - regardless of the overwhelming reality - has yet to be adequately addressed as a political category. For the most part responsibility has so far been discussed as an ethical category; if appearing within the political it has been underlying the political analysis of evil. This text will address the problem of political responsibility and as a point of departure will use the political theory of Hannah Arendt. And whereas her theory was built primarily as a reflection on the history of Nazism and is based on her experiences of those events, the objective here is to answer how Arendt’s theory can be used for the analysis of what has happened in the Balkans, or, more specifically as a direction toward a process of self–reflection within Serbia. An Arendtian theoretical format can benefit from an analysis that considers a gendered political perspective; therefore this text will also mark the position of women within Serbian political space.
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