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Investigation answering these questions: - Is there a tradition of polemics in the Romanian culture? - Which is the definition of polemic spirit, and which are the dominant characteristics of the polemic discourse? - Which are the truly representative polemicists of the Romanian culture, and which are the themes that developed consistent polemics? - is there now, a civilization of polemics in Romania?
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Essay argumenting the necessity of teaching creative writing in high schools and universities.
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A few words about Marko Ivan Rupnik, whose drawings can be found in this issue of Vatra.
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Cristian Vasile (Istoria Bisericii Greco-Catolice sub regimul comunist. 1945-1989. Documente şi mărturii, Iaşi, Editura Polirom, 2003); Claudiu Komartin, Circul domestic, Editura Cartea Românească, Bucureşti, 2005, 80 p; Eugen Curta - Seducţia continuă (Editura Genesis, 2005); Daniela Raţiu - Ochelari de damă (2005), Editura Brumar.
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"Uraaaa! Bunica are un amant..." by Dumitru Huruba; "Cantata profana" by Kocsis Francisko.
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This work examines the relationship between Bishop Akšamović and the Yugoslavian government in Yugoslavia, especially from 1945 until 1951, the year he went into retirement, but it also until 1959, the year of his death. It features his close relationship to the President of the Croatian Religious Commission, Svetozar Ritig, whom he turned to most for support for some of the requests he directed at the state. This work also singles out some of the petitions he sent to the government which clearly demostrate the problems the Bishop faced, and the way in which he attempted to solve them. Thanks to Ritig's support as well as his preparedness to establish a better working relationship with the government compared to the other Bishops, his petitions and requests met with more success than was common practice at the time.
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The clash between Croatian Defence Council (HVO) and the Armed Forces of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ABIH) in Prozor, which took place 23-25 October, 1992, was brought on as a result of the widening of the conflict between the HVO and the ABiH in central Bosnia, or more precisely, an outgrowth of the violence which erupted in Novi Travnik on 18 October 1992. The conflict must be viewed within the context of the general worsening of relations between the ABiH and HVO which began with the redirection of the Serbian war machine against the Muslims in April 1992. The conflict in Prozor is not an incident that occured quickly or unexpectedly, rather it is the local result of opposing views of the current political situation and future organization of Bosnia and Hercegovina. The actual conflictoccured when members of the ABiH killed a soldier of the HVO without provocation, which brought about the clash of arms which resulted in the defeat of the ABiH in Prozor as well as the retreat of portion of the Muslim inhabitants of the twon. Very quickly the following year, 1993, the Muslim (Bosniak) propaganda machine began transforming the conflict in Prozor into an act of violence against its own constituency, which, despite the fact that its forces were not present in the region, implicated the armed forces of the Republic of Croatia.
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An examination of the acceptance of the Second Vatican Council among Croats has not yet received scholarly attention, even though some competent evaluations exist. This article limits itself to reviewing the main Church publishers and publications which were established or renewed at the time of and directly after the Council in order to commnicate the Council's ideas, as well as examines the degree to which the Church's aims were realized in so far as the media is concerned as set out in the post-Council documents. The Council occured at a time when a ''warmer climate'' existed in the relations between the Church and Communist Yugoslavia; this was also a time of crisis within the Yugoslavian regime. This led to a renewal in the Catholic press in Croatian, ten years after the communists had stifled the weekly ''Gore srca'' (Lift up your Hearts), the sole remaining Croatian Church newspaper to continue printing after 1945. The first publication to appear was the popular newspaper ''Glasnik sv. Antuna Padovanskog'' (St. Antun Padovanski Herald), put out monthly by the Franciscan order of Zagreb starting in April 1962. Following this, the weekly Glas s koncila (Voice of the Council) began to appear. This newspaper's editors began to publis the month Mali koncil (the Little Council) for youth. In Split, the episcopal ordinariate began publising a theological journal, Crkva u svijetu (the Church in the World), in 1966, along with many related books. In Zagreb, the theological journal Svesci (Bindings), which came out before Christmas, 1966, the largest Catholic publishing house Kršćanska sadašnjost (Christian Here and Now), began to gradually develop. These were the most important Croatian publishing initiatives which were inspired by the Council. But the Council's ideas began to spread through a number of smaller publications and initiatives. The era of the Second Council was marked by tenson and polemics between socalled 'progressives' and 'conservatives', wherein some stressed the new elements in the Council's teachings, while others were afraid that the reforms and 'innovations' were imperiling the very essence of Catholic teaching and practice. The Council changed no less than the relationship between the Church and the media. The Council decree Inter mirifica accepted the media as the ''astounding invention of technique''. The injunction of the Council inspired in 1971 the promulgation of the Pastoral Instruction Communio et progressio, in which the contemporary Catholic approach to the media was elaborated, further supplemented by the instruction Aetatis novae twenty years later. Both documents, and those that followed them, were translated in Croatia, but we are far from having put them into practice.
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The essay investigates the beginnings of the Baptist church in Zagreb in late nineteenth century through to 1922. Earliest influences came from the colporteurs sent by Britsh and Foreign Bible Society, from the graduates of St Chrischona missionary school in Switzerland, and from the Lutheran churches in Vienna and Budapest. The essay discusses the problems of precise dating of the founding of the Baptist church and the life and careers of two key individuals, Ivan Zrinšćak and Stjepan Bedeković,. It gives an outline of inetractions among significant individuals, missionary activity, and some relevant theological issues. Only a brief outline of the Baptist community is possible for the period of the First World War when the church almost ceased to exist, but was re-founded in the sbsequent three years. The essay makes use of primary sources, such as several letters exchanged between signficant church members dating from the end of the 19th century, as well as all existing secondary sources, and situates the study in the context of existent literature on Protestant/free church tradition denominations in the Croatian lands.
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The author analyzes the devolopment of historiography in the past thirty years. She stresses her opposition to the predominant influence of ideology, and at the same time she questions the new directions and viewpoints in historical research and professional historiography.
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The author of this text provides an insight into how the Zagreb Rescue Team, an antecedent of Institute for Urgent Medical Assistance, was founded. He analyses the influence of social and economic conditions in Zagreb at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twenthiet century.
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The author of this article examines religious persecutions which occured during the period from the time of the communist takeover of government at the end of the Second World War until 1953. She shows how at this time the Soviet model of purges was applied to Church circels. Using a comparative method, the author points out similarities with Stalin's pattern of rule, but also shows modifications in the relations between the government and religion, which come into view after Stalin's death (1953). The author concludes that Yugoslavian religious policies were less extreme in terms of persecution of religion in comparison to the Soviet Union. The more moderate Titoist regime was able to control the work of Churc organizations and to produce propaganda about the ostensible freedom of religion in Yugoslavia.
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The main goal of this article is to grasp the unique nature of elite-mass relations in the issue of European integration. The most general question of the article is whether the elites represent attitudes of the mass public in the issue of European integration. Due to the parsimony of research design I defined three groups of attitudes on a scale from anti-integrational to neutral and finally pro-integrational. The combination of the three types of attitudes on both elite level and mass level generates a typology of nine theoretically possible types the relationship of the elites and the masses in terms of their attitudes to the European integration. In the next step I tried to identify the most important factors affecting the attitudes of the elites and the masses (such as GDP, length of membership, identity, age, and education). The research results are based on statistical data analysis.
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Petr Fiala: Laboratoř sekularizace. Náboženství a politika v nená-boženské společnosti – český případ, Brno, Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury 2007, 184 s. Kniha Laboratoř sekularizace rektora Masarykovy univerzity v Brně a před-sedy brněnského Centra pro studium demokracie a kultury profesora Petra Fialy zaujme nejen kvůli renomovanému jménu autora, ale i zajímavým tématem, když v útlé, ale kvalitní publikaci analyzuje sekularizační proces v ČR. Po nastínění základních pojmů Fiala zkoumá postavení katolické církve v české společnosti, popisuje zájmy a strategie církve v sekularizované společnosti a nakonec rozebírá roli křesťanské strany v české politice.
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Bosnia’s international managers are learning to take a softer line with intransigent politicians. But old habits will be hard to banish.
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