THE IMPORTANCE OF THE RELIGIOUS EDUCATION FOR THE FORMATION OF THE STUDENTS’ BEHAVIOUR TODAY

Author(s): Carmen-Maria Bolocan,Pavel Lungu / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Education opens the predisposition to become aware of good, beauty and harmony within man and universe. At the beginning of the formation of the procedural state system of education, Religion was a constitutive part of education in general, being, in fact, the anteroom in which education of all types developed, divided into various subjects. In the religious formation of the student, a major role is played by the professor of Religion, especially, to be precise, by his pedagogical and theological knowledge as well as by his character, his love for sharing the Divine Word with the students, his empathy and love for “one of the least of these”. Teenagers, adolescents have always represented a challenge. Their psychological and physiological changes that happen more quickly in their case and in a different manner in comparison to the changes that happen in little children require a bigger effort from the teacher of Religion to understand their attitudes and intimate problems of an existential nature. At this age, due to the stage of development of the self-awareness, due to the manner in which they become aware of their personal existence in a tenderer universe from multiple perspectives, they go through a certain restructuring in thinking and confusion or loss in alternatives. Besides the major role of the model of the teacher of Religion, the methods chosen to teach Religion are also of high importance to the religious and harmonious development of the students’ behaviors.

ORTHODOX HYMNS IN THE VESPERS FOR THE CELEBRATION OF SAINT MARTYR PHILOFTHEIA - WRITTEN BY SISTER MAGDALINA NICOLESCU (HIGHER EDUCATION CONSIDERATIONS)

Author(s): Cristina Moldoveanu,Petruţa Maria Coroiu / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This paper focuses on the creation of Sister Magdalina Nicolescu, who had a keen interest in psalm music in the Romanian church culture. In 1933 she was mother superior at Zamfira Monastery, and among her psalms there is the Service devoted to Saint Martyr Philoftheia, preserved in the Minei edition printed in 1873 by Cernica Monastery Press. The analysis of the text considers it a model for education highlighting spiritual education, not only the intellectual one. The hymns of the Vespers sooth the souls of those who pray, after the turmoil of the day, bringing them the inner peace of prayer, preparing them for the uplifting moment of Litia, the Blessing of the Bread, accompanied by specific hymns and leading to the hymns at the end of the Service, whose texts concentrate on the redeeming life and deeds of the celebrated saint.

THEOLOGICAL PROFESSIONALISM: BETWEEN SACREDCHURCH SPACE AND COMMUNITY

Author(s): Andrian Aleksandrov / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Today, both university and church management follow strict economic principles, along with scholarly accreditation rules that grant more academic freedom. The canonical order, on the other hand, is what has traditionally defined the spiritual confessional hierarchy of relationships among theologians. Simultaneously, moral choice and commitment to values are essential pillars of humanitarian and theological professionalism, as well as of most of the fields that share social practices with the Orthodox Church. Theological and clerical professionalism is the basic requirement of many services that are shared along the development of church lifestyle, ethos, and liturgical life with religious communities who need education in faith, encompassing the entire Christian Church. While the hierotopy of scared church space and community had been mystically integrating the entire range of human attitudes toward theological perfection into one sacramental liturgical whole, media began sharing that process with global society more and more openly. Everyone could freely, instantly, and dynamically access Eastern Orthodox Christian Church and try to find their special place in the whole church organism, where every part is to be perfectly bonded with the others, without live adjustment of one's individual state of spiritual growth according to collective perspectives.

EARTHLY LIFE IN GOD'S LOVE, VALUE AND MEANING FOR TODAY'S YOUTH

Author(s): Gavril Trifa / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The question of the meaning of earthly life and the eternal destiny of man have been constant themes of reflection in Christian thought, even if the great statements with clarifying value for the great questions of man were definitively formulated by Jesus Christ, the One born under the law, because those born under the law to release them. The great restlessness of man prove to be a constant, and for the young people the recourse to biblical and patristic texts, with all their indisputable position, even by those at the age of attempts to change the world, demands updates and even customizations. The present text aims to make an analysis of the relationship between man and the world, from a theological and educational-pastoral perspective. The philosophical and socio-political currents born of the great restlessness of the Renaissance man gradually led to the consideration of freedom, understood as independence from divinity, as a purpose in itself, and through this they made man feel more and more distant from himself and his fellows. The text details conceptually and illustrates through models left by the holy fathers the way in which the understanding in the light of the divine Revelation of the love of fellow men leads to the assumption of friendship, and through this supports the way of man towards Man.

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AND PASTORAL CARE OF YOUTH IN FRONT OF THE DEFIANCE OF TODAY'S WORLD

Author(s): Alexandru-Corneliu Arion / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The contemporary paradigm of moral education is based on the combination of moral knowledge and moral action. At the same time, moral education consists in creating an appropriate environment for the interiorization of the components of social morality into the young's personality structure, leading to the implementation of proper moral conduct. The orientation of religious education to the concrete life of the people and to a more direct and more vivid link with Church services and especially the Divine Liturgy is a goal truly expected. This requires a closer connection between teachers, priests, and parishes, as well as outlining some educational partnerships between parishes and schools. From these permanent links, not only the Church would benefit, but also the school, and consequently, the Romanian society.

HIGHLIGHTS OF EDUCATION IN THE SPIRIT OF MORAL VALUES

Author(s): Adina Popovici / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The need for Standards and principles to guide human behavior has always existed. Moral education has established itself over time as a necessity, an element without which a healthy society can not be built, with members able to cooperate, make responsible choices and make the right decisions. Moreover, moral education provides inner balance to the individual, ensuring his increased self-esteem, moral values are elements that inspire and motivate. Since ancient times, the school has also dealt with the moral education of students. The great thinkers of mankind considered the moral formation of the child to be one of its main duties, in order for society to benefit from members able to discern between good and evil, to live harmoniously in the collective, to achieve common long-term benefits. Moral education was considered a final dimension of religious education, with which it has great similarities, they are in a relationship of complementarity and causality.

VALUE OF SINCERE VOICES OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN THE PROCESS OF CHURCH CATECHISATION

Author(s): Velina Toneva / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Contemporary religious education in Eastern Orthodox Christian countries and churches is often closer to catechisation than to comparative religious studies, because that is usually the local tradition and identity-building nature of schooling. On the other hand, recent church catechisation and socialisation are more often combined with recreative, general educational or more specific creative activities, classes and moments. Even new topics in arts and humanities go together with preaching to senior and to “those minor ones” and spiritually caring of children, youths, adults and elderly. When clergy works with people in the specific language and according to their particular interests that dynamically change, flock responds with same attitude to church lifestyle and confession. This paper is about the key value of understanding the way how children perceive, express and practice what they had actually understood, remembered and learned from parish school or monastery or convent camp. Based on my collection and exploration of small pieces of children’s prayer and creative texts and on comparison with such studies in Orthodox and other contexts, this study argues that spontaneous children’s responses and further feedback are of considerable value in the process of inchurching, as well as in religious dimension of personal and social child development.

CONTEMPORARY RELIGIOUS EDUCATION FOR PEOPLE WITH HEARING DISABILITIES IN BULGARIA AS CHURCH SOCIAL PASTORAL CARE

Author(s): Sylvana Pavlova / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

When people with disabilities join a social group, their presence is supposed to naturally raise the awareness of human rights. To be in touch with impaired people is usually an experience that helps others develop civic and religious virtues and skills. Uneven physical, psychical or social status provokes compassion, readiness to help, willingness to care, and motivates community to understand special needs better. Empathy is sometimes questioned by competition among people equal in some perspectives. Believers often contemplate on situations and interrelations among people of same denomination, who gather in order to pray or celebrate together, to support each other and walk side by side on the way of salvation. Like in civil society, in religious circles, there are rules and discipline that is supposed to assist families to raise their children appropriately so that minors can become independent persons, living in peace and equity with others. In the cases of hearing disability, clergy trained to deliver liturgical texts and communicate with their spiritual children by pictures, signs and gestures, or written texts rely on special pedagogues and sign language interpreters who actively support that mission. This paper represents my doctoral research on catechisation of children from special schools in a parish centre, compared to same care for youth, adults and elderly in Bulgaria and abroad.

Stereotyping Estonian Pagans: Right-Wing Extremists or Tree Huggers from the Forest?

Author(s): Ringo Ringvee / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

One of the stereotypes regarding contemporary pagans in Europe, especially in Eastern Europe, is that they adhere to right-wing extremist political views and are inherently racist. There is also the opposite stereotype of a hippie-style pagan who is profoundly spiritual and hugs trees to exchange power with Mother Earth. In the following, I will explore the ideological position of two pagan movements that emerged in Estonia during the 20th century. The main question is where do the native Estonian Taarausk and Maausk movements, stand on the ideological map, if they stand at all? Both ethnic religions emerged during the twentieth century when Estonians were establishing or reestablishing independent statehood, and both have had their roots in a broader intellectual and political movements. Both Taarausk and Maausk stressed the importance of Estonianness, resistance to cosmopolitanism and globalization, and finding the religious or spiritual dimension from the pre-Christian ‘golden age’ or from lived traditions of ancestors. Cosmopolitanism and globalization are seen as represented by the Christian Church and Christianity that was imposed on Estonians by Crusaders.

Note on the Romuva Movement in Lithuania

Author(s): Massimo Introvigne / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Romuva is the name of the largest European ‘ethnic religion’. The name is already a problem. Peter of Duisburg (14th century) mentions it in 1326 in his Chronicon Terrae Prussiae as the still existing mysterious centre of the ancient Baltic religion, whose leader, called Krivis, had as much authority in the region as the Pope in Rome (whose name, the chronicler assured, was ‘Romuva’, which thus came from ‘Rome’).

Atheism, Theism, and Reactivation in Turkey Irreligiosity in a Secular State Under an Islamist Conservative Regime

Author(s): Samim Akgönül / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Meryem, a 19-year-old resident of a small and highly conservative town in Northern Turkey, comes from a family that strongly identifies with Turkish nationalism and Sunni Islam. For them, the combination of the two is the only legitimate way to define what it means to be Turkish. In 2019, she was declaring to Euronews that when she sees how religion is used by politics in Turkey, she gets confused as many of her friends, and she was on her way to becoming an atheist “but don’t tell it to (her) mom”. 1 After two decades of an increasing Islamist atmosphere, the main fear of the conservatives in Turkey is to witness more believers but a less practicing generation. Indeed, to the fear of Atheism has been added since 2010 the fear of Deism, i.e., people who believe in Allah, but who think that all the ceremony of Sunni Islam is a political show at worst, a folklore at best. In this chapter, I will try to describe and analyse different attitudes in the Turkish society, especially among youngsters, that can be seen as a reaction to the formal normative Sunni Islam as defended by the political elite

Performance Art as a Ritual of Reviving Pagan Religions

Author(s): Elif Dastarlı,İlkay Canan Okkalı / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

After the Second World War, the departure from modernity led to the emergence of various interpretations of paganism, a religion that regards and idolises the beings of nature as gods and demigods in art. This period reflects the rise of conceptual thought in art. Although its foundations are rooted in performing arts and in many examples of performance art as a medium of production in the field of visual arts by highlighting its spirit made of plants, trees, rocks, wind, and such, we can particularly see the resurrected traces of animistic shamanism.

Imnografii Întâmpinării – analiză istorică și hermeneutică teologico- liturgică. Studiu de caz: imnografia zilei de 2 februarie

Author(s): Iuliana Timofti / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

From Romanos the Melodist to John of Damascus and Cosmas of Maiuma, the hymnography of the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord will know the peak of its development in the 8th century through the Savaite monastic school. Fruits of the Church's need for both new forms of doxology and confession of the truths of faith, the liturgical poetic pieces of this holiday inspiredly develop its theology, intertwining a hermeneutic and catechetical approach with a latreutic one. The purpose of this study is to emphasize these two dimensions of the hymnographic material related to February 2, starting from a historical analysis to a theological and spiritual one.

Glasovi nevidljivih: Što je to kvir teologija?

Author(s): Greta Grakalić Rački / Language(s): Croatian Publication Year: 0

Nerijetko kada spomenem pojam „kvir teologije“, nebitno radi li se o aktivističkim ili vjerskim krugovima, susretnem poglede pune zaprepaštenja i pitanje protkano nevjericom: „To doista postoji?“ Da, to postoji! Ta dva naizgled posve različita i nepomirljiva pojma formiraju izuzetno uzbudljivu i vibrantnu teološku struju, no ona je, baš kao i sama kvir zajednica u religijskom kontekstu, još uvijek nevidljiva u mejnstrim teološkom diskursu, naročito u jugoistočnoj Europi. Zbog toga ću u ovom tekstu pokušati skrenuti pozornost na neke kvir teologije koje, po mom sudu, imaju potencijal postati odskočnom daskom za dijalog LGBTIQ+ zajednice s religijama u regiji, i to s naglaskom na započinjanju tog dijaloga u bosanskohercegovačkom multireligijskom, multietničkom i multikulturalnom društvu.

Dominantni religijskoteološki anti-LGBTIQ+ diskursi u Bosni i Hercegovini: Studija slučaja na primjeru Bh. povorke ponosa

Author(s): Tanja Grabovac / Language(s): Croatian Publication Year: 0

Organizacija prve Bosanskohercegovačke povorke ponosa u Sarajevu 8. rujna 2019. godine prouzrokovala je brojne konfliktne i diskriminatorne reakcije u bosanskohercegovačkom društvu. Pored toga, i sam period pripreme povorke bio je period burnih medijskih i političkih reakcija, ali i brojnih reakcija religijskih zajednica, vjernika/ca, teologa/inja. Fokusirajući se na prikaz religijskoteoloških reakcija na Bh. povorku ponosa iz Katoličke crkve u Bosni i Hercegovini, kao i od strane Islamske zajednice u Bosni i Hercegovini, u ovom ću prilogu pokušati predočiti dominantni religijsko-teološki diskurs o LGBTIQ+ tematici.

Fenomen pracy w encyklikach społecznych Jana Pawła II a prawna regulacja pracy

Author(s): Hanna Suchocka / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The article presents the key themes of John Paul II social teaching regard- ing the phenomenon of work, contained in the encyclicals Laborem exercens, Sollicitudo rei socialis and Centesimus annus. Through these documents, the Pope responded to important problems and challenges of the modern world resulting from the chang- ing socio-economic realities: the transition from a centrally controlled economy to a free market economy, the process of globalisation and exploitation as well as a new worldwide inequalities and tensions it entails, the growing primacy of capital over work, a dehumanizing approach to work with the lack of reference to the key value that is a human dignity etc. The Catholic Church’s social teaching incessantly reminds that the human being should always be treated as a subject, not an object of the work, and the duty of the state’s policy is to respect and protect, through the legal regulations, the inherent human dignity in the social system of the labour. While the Church never opted for a specific economic model, it always pointed at the superior values that should be respected in order to preserve and maintain the dignity of a working people.

Hymn na dzień Zwiastowania N. P. Maryi i metafizyka

Author(s): Jerzy Fiećko / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The author dissects one of Adam Mickiewicz’s first mystical poems, entitled Hymn for the Day of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, written in Decem- ber 1820. The article ultimately presents the thesis that this poem introduces themes of prophethood, pride and the genius of the prophet-artist that are fundamental to the later, mature phase of the poet’s oeuvre; it also makes an initial attempt to develop the poetics of a mystical vision, to search for language suitable for it, to use the trick of the ‘mystical paradox’. He also analyses the Judaic-Jewish and, less obviously, neo-Gnostic references that are important in this poem (he is particularly concerned with Jakob Boehme’s ideas), and enters into a critical dialogue with the research tradition (especially with the studies by Stefania Skwarczyńska and Zdzisław Kępiński). In the first part of the argument, he de- votes a great deal of attention to the poetics of the work, and its hymnic connections, but also recognises that the form of the visionary work was subordinated to the poet’s mental projection, and this is the sphere to which the author of the sketch devoted most attention.

İSLAM FELSEFESİ ANABİLİM DALI

Author(s): Bilge Sever Kıyak / Language(s): Turkish Publication Year: 0

İslam Felsefesi Anabilim Dalı, İslami İlimler ve İlahiyat Fakültelerinde bulunduğu gibi Sosyal ve Beşerî Bilimler Fakültelerinin altında yer Felsefe Bölümlerinde de bir branş olarak yer almaktadır. İslami İlimler-İlahiyat Fakültelerinde ve Felsefe bölümünde lisans ve lisansüstü çalışmalar yapmak isteyenler İslam felsefesi ile karşılaşacaklardır. İslam felsefesi geleneğinin ve anabilim dalının tarihi ve kaynakları gibi tartışmalara girmeden önce birkaç hususa değinmek gerekmektedir. Çünkü İslam felsefesi her şeyden önce bir felsefi geleneği temsil etmektedir. Dolayısıyla burada felsefenin ne olduğuna ve farklı felsefe geleneklerinin ne anlama geldiğine değinilecektir. Felsefenin ne olduğuyla başlamak gerekirse, net bir tanım vermek oldukça zor bir iştir. Çünkü felsefenin ne olduğu filozoftan filozofa, kültürden kültüre göre değişmektedir (Uyanık-Akyol, 2022). Farklı tanımları olsa da ünlü İslam filozofu İbn Rüşd (1179-80/2019) felsefeyi “Felsefe yapmak, mevcudatı araştırmaktan ve onları yaratıcıya delaleti bakımından incelemekten başka bir şey değildir” şeklinde tanımlamaktadır. Buradan da anlayacağımız üzere felsefe aslında insanı, eşyayı, doğayı ve geri kalan tüm varlıkları rasyonel bir akıl yürütme ile anlama çabasıdır. Bu anlama çabası doğal olarak farklı kültürlerde farklı bakış açılarından yapıldığı için farklı felsefi gelenekler ortaya çıkmıştır.

DİN EĞİTİMİ ANABİLİM DALI

Author(s): Mehmet Enis Serinsu / Language(s): Turkish Publication Year: 0

Çalışmada, araştırmacılara rehber olması bakımından Din Eğitimi Bilim Dalı tanıtılmıştır. Din Eğitimi Bilim Dalı sahasının tanınmasına imkan sağlayan bilgiler beş başlık altında toplanmıştır. Bu başlıklar şunlardır: 1.Tarihi ve Kurucu İsim, 2. Araştırma Konuları ve Yöntemi, 3. Temel Kaynaklar, 4.Din Eğitimi Anabilim Dalı’nda Lisansüstü Eğitim, 5.Din Eğitimi Anabilim Dalı’nda Yayın Yapan Akademik Dergiler, 6. Diğer İlahiyat Bölümleriyle İlişkisi, 7. İlahiyat Dışındaki Disiplinlerle İlişkisi, 8. Türkiye Dışında Din Eğitimi Anabilim Dalı.

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