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František Sequens: Decoration of the Churches of Saints Cyril and Methodius in Prague-Karlín and Saint Wenceslas in Prague-Smíchov

Author(s): Adéla Klinerová / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2017

The objective of this article is to present the personality of Czech painter František Sequens (1836 – 1896), representative of Prague Academy and artist focused on religious art. Sequens had an opportunity to spend a great part of the 1860s in Rome. This period of his life and formation is considered nowadays determining. The issue of the continuity with the Nazarene art movement is therefore obvious but not that easy to be resolved. The contribution is pointing out the often simplified attribution of religious art of the pursued period to the Nazarene art movement. Two important commissions were chosen from the whole of Sequens’s work: inner decoration of the Churches of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Prague Karlín and St. Wenceslas in Prague-Smíchov. The article is then focused on the monumental mural paintings in the context of these two religious buildings.

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Etnicko-konfesionálna rozmanitosť z hľadiska úniou nezjednotených veriacich v Mukačevskom biskupstve na prelome 17. a 18. storočia

Author(s): Svetlana Vašíčková / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 01/2018

In the paper author deals with the issue of interconfessional communication. The article is based on the material of three manuscripts of Carpathian Ruthenia origin from the turn of 17th and 18th centuries. Manuscripts fragments enable us to observe the influence of the polemical writings directed against bringing the Union of Brest.

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Poľsko-uhorské súvislosti v dejinách uniatov

Author(s): Peter Zubko / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 03+04/2018

This article compares the union between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church in Poland and Hungary. The Union closed in Brest city, Poland (1596), influenced the closure of the Union in the Uzhhorod city, Hungary (1646). The mutual comparison of the two unions shows a great deal of differences in the genesis of the unions and in their further development. The Polish Union has all the attributes of a classic Church Union, the Hungarian Union from 1646 has the attributes of a simple personal union. The Polish Union was guaranteed by the Church hierarchy, the king and the pope; the Hungarian Union had a private character between several Presbyters and the Bishop of the Latin Rite of Eger. In the case of Hungary, this was not a one-off event, but the process that was repeated in some years. A further comparison of both environments shows that, in Poland, latinization and polonization developed largely in the wake of the Union. In Hungary, this process took place much later, after the establishment of the Mukacheve Greek Catholic Bishopric (1771). Until then, the Union was inspired by cultural events from the Polish unites believers and Church to cope with the Latin clergy.

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Conference Report “Psalms”

Author(s): Miroslav Varšo / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

Conference Report “Psalms”, March 19th 2021, online

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Shteti antifetar shqiptar dhe etnografia profanizuese: elementi botëformues në etnografinë socialiste shqiptare

Author(s): Blerina Hankollari / Language(s): Albanian Issue: 1/2018

The anti-religious policy of the Albanian totalitarian state recognizes three phases. If the first phase was determined by a surplus of State violence and its mechanisms of terror and the second phase by delegitimizing policies of the religious institutions and clergy, in the third phase, State’s anti-religious policies were installed on a disciplinary level through the method of scientific atheism, aiming at scientific liquidation of the religious spectrum in Albania. During the dictatorial period, especially after 1967, Albanian socialist ethnography has contributed to the profanation of the Albanian mythological configurations, rites and practices, by serving the Albanian State’s atheistic programmatic, which aims at creating the one-world man.

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Barbora Spalová – Ivana Lukeš Rybanská a kol.: Vize zdaru, vize zmaru. Proměny církví v Česku a na Slovensku v kontextu restitucí

Author(s): Lukáš Dirga / Language(s): Czech Issue: 3/2024

Review of: Barbora Spalová – Ivana Lukeš Rybanská a kol.: Vize zdaru, vize zmaru. Proměny církví v Česku a na Slovensku v kontextu restitucí, Karolinum. 2023, počet stran 263. ISBN 978-80-246-5623-6

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Tobias Köllner: Religion and Politics in Contemporary Russia. Beyond the Binary of Power and Authority

Author(s): Milena Benovska-Sabkova / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2024

Review of: TOBIAS KÖLLNER: Religion and Politics in Contemporary Russia. Beyond the Binary of Power and Authority London and New York: Routledge, 2021, 178 p.

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К вопросу о так называемых западных молитвах в Ярославском часослове второй половины XIII в.

Author(s): Tatiana Afanasyeva / Language(s): Russian Issue: 02/2024

The article presents new data on the number of Western prayers in the Yaroslavl Horologion of the second half of the 13th century, a collection first studied by A. I. Sobolevsky, who suggested that it contained eight prayers translated from Latin. When preparing the first complete edition of the Yaroslavl Horologion, a search was conducted for the originals and other Slavonic copies of the prayers of this collection, which made it possible to identify a number of previously unknown sources that allow us to reconsider and clarify the opinions of both Sobolevsky and modern scholars who have studied this question. Greek originals were found for some prayers, which removes the question of their Western origin. A number of prayers correspond in their liturgical function to Byzantine Horologia and Psalters and, on this basis, can be considered translated from Greek prototypes. Only five prayers of undoubtedly Western origin are preserved in the Yaroslavl Horologion. They are either Moravian and came to Rus’ from the southern Slavs, or Czech, brought to Kiev through Czech-Russian cultural ties in the 11th century.

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Корабль Церкви: от визуализации богословия к памфлету

Author(s): Alexandra Pletneva / Language(s): Russian Issue: 02/2024

The article is devoted to the pictorial scene «Ship of Faith», which appeared in Russia at the cusp between the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period. The image depicts a ship steered by Christ being attacked by the enemies of the Church – unrighteous rulers and heretics. The article examines the European prototypes of this scene, who date back to the Reformation period, and puts forward a hypothesis about the connection between this story and two works by St Symeon of Thessalonica – «Sacred Rituals and Sacraments of the Church» and «Dialogue in Christ against all Here- sies». Russian translations of these works made a huge influence on Russian theology. A late manuscript of Symeon’s works contains a miniature of this image, while its printed edition features an engraved version of the same miniature. The end of the 20th century was marked by a renewed interest in the scene in question due to the discussions about the development paths of the Church. The image of the church ship and heretics could now be used as a caricature of opponents.

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Madonna. Dolores popkultury

Author(s): Sebastian Latocha / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1-2/2024

The subject of the text are two subversive photographic series with the Madonna in the main role: in the first one, the artist suffers in the manner of Mater Dolorosa, and in the second one, she organizes the Last Supper. The author examines subversive photos of Madonna as an example of a discourse of the weak, using Foucault’s concept of counter-history as a tool of analysis and interpretation. What story does Madonna tell us as she comes out of the shadows? Why does a pop culture icon interfere with the great themes of Christian art and iconographic types that consolidate and organize our knowledge about what happened between Holy Thursday and the Descent from the Cross and the entombment of Christ.

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A FEW THINGS THE CHURCH BUILDING INDUSTRY TELLS US ABOUT CONTEMPORARY ROMANIA

Author(s): Giuseppe Tateo / Language(s): English Issue: 22/2025

Based on a central survey published by the SSRA in 2016, this article reflects on the construction of religious infrastructure in Romania after 1990. Two aspects are given special attention: the nationalist orientation of the Romanian Orthodox Church (ROC), which seems to replace spiritual and theological symbolism, and the relevant role of state authorities in providing favorable legal measures and generous public funding to religious groups. In this light, I look skeptically at the paradigm of religious revival and propose alternative avenues of research: the organizational revival of the ROC, the de-secularization of property, and the privatization of faith among younger generations.

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Administration of Sacraments in casu necessitatis by Nurses in Croatia — A Few Qualitative Examples from Clinical Practice

Author(s): Damjan Abou Aldan / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2024

Modern healthcare requires a holistic approach and person–centered care. Rare examples are highlighted in this paper, in which this type of experience is seen not only in view of a patient’s autonomy but also through actions that go beyond certain standardized procedures. It is a higher level of understanding of a human compared to the one of the prevalent biomedical model. This paper outlines the experiences of three nurses from the Republic of Croatia who participated in the administration of sacraments during their regular work in nursing care. These experiences include administering the sacrament of baptism to a newborn with a predicted fatal outcome as the priest was unavailable, and the sacrament of Holy Communion to a patient whom the priest could not physically access. Preliminary results are presented along with a review of the literature, with the aim of preparing a more comprehensive study with a greater number of respondents. The first results show that in the healthcare system of the Republic of Croatia, there are nurses who participate in the administration of sacraments, but they state that they do not have sufficient knowledge about the process. During the formal education of nurses, there are no contents that would deal with the described phenomena, although the necessity of meeting the spiritual needs of patients is emphasized.

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Knowledge of God in the Philosophy of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Author(s): Bruno Matos,Borna Behur / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2024

The philosophy of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, shaped by the historical context of the Renaissance and an academic environment inclined toward syncretism, leaves an impression of a complex and stratified system to this day. In his philosophical approach to the knowledge of God, Pico relies on various philosophical and theological sources, thereby constructing a distinctive representation of the spiritual journey toward a mystical union with God. The authors explore his philosophical approach to the knowledge of God through three points, or degrees, by which human introspection, philosophical inquiry, and theological reflection lead toward God. After a brief overview of Pico’s thesis with respect to the capacity of knowing God, the authors go on to elaborate on the position of rationality and the capacity to abstract the attributes of God, as well as the nature of contemplation and the mystical union with God, relying on Oration on the Dignity of Man (De hominis dignitate) and On Being and Unity (De ente et uno).

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RELIGION AND VIOLENCE IN ROMANIA: THE IMPACT OF SECULARIZATION ON INTERRELIGIOUS CONFLICTS

Author(s): Laurenţiu D. Tănase,Cezar Dascălu / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2024

The analysis examines the trajectories of violence among religious groups in Romania, focusing on conflicts between Orthodox and Greek Catholic communities and between Orthodox and neo-Protestant communities. Forms of verbal, psychological, physical, and spiritual violence were tracked based on definitions provided by Romanian legislation. The research hypothesis posits that the intensification of secularization and anticlericalism has contributed to the reduction of violence between Orthodox and Greek Catholic/neo-Protestant communities in Romania from 1990 to 2023. In Orthodox-Greek Catholic conflicts, the central issue is patrimonial, while tensions between Orthodox and neo-Protestant communities stem primarily from proselytism and the migration of believers. Notable reductions in violence are observed, particularly after 2007, when secularization and anticlericalism became common adversaries for religious groups. The study analyzed all U.S. Department of State Reports on Religious Freedom in Romania, reports y the State Secretariat for Religious Affairs, Synodal reports of the Romanian Orthodox Church, all issues of Vestitorul Ortodoxiei and Biserica Ortodoxă Română, as well as 112 articles on religious conflicts from local and national media from 1990 to 2023. Numerous semi-structured interviews were conducted with Baptist, Adventist and Pentecostal pastors, between October 2023 and March 2024.

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TODAY’S EDUCATIONAL VALUES AND RELIGIOUS PLURALISM IN THE LANDSCAPE OF EVERYDAY INDIVIDUALISM AND EXTREMISM

Author(s): Alina Domnița Pralea / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2024

In a time of the „clash of civilizations”, issues of cultural and religious diversity are becoming increasingly evident. As societies become more ethnically, culturally and religiously complex, contemporary education needs to focus on building a collective consciousness based on tolerance. At the same time, education should not be limited to academic knowledge, but should also develop critical thinking skills and the ability to resolve conflicts through dialog. The ability to understand and navigate diversity is not just a theoretical tool, but a practical necessity, given the political and social challenges facing modern societies.

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„Náš dům je Tvým chrámem a náš stůl je Tvým oltářem“. Osud Pavla Křivského a utajené družiny KRUHu, scházející se v Bílkově pražské ateliérové vile

Author(s): Martin Jindra / Language(s): Czech Issue: 03/2024

In the late summer of 1948, the skautské společenství KRUH emerged, led by philosopher and theologian Pavel Křivský, aiming to teach the "art of good living" and foster societal renewal. This group, which included notable figures like Jiří Dunovský, found a sanctuary in the Bílkova vila in Prague, a place imbued with the spiritual and artistic legacy of the symbolist sculptor František Bílek. The villa, designed to symbolize life as a field of ripe grain, became a meeting place for KRUH members, who sought spiritual and intellectual growth amidst the oppressive political climate of the early 1950s. Despite the eventual arrest of Křivský and the disbandment of KRUH, the group's activities left a lasting impact on its members, who continued to cherish the ideals of responsibility, love, and understanding. The story of KRUH and its connection to Bílek's villa highlights the enduring power of art and spirituality in nurturing resilience and hope.

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„Dát tak impulsy elektrickému psacímu stroji“. Pozoruhodný samizdatový elektroautomat, který zaskočil i StB

Author(s): Zdeněk Bauer / Language(s): Czech Issue: 03/2024

In late 1981, a routine police raid in Teplice led to the discovery of an innovative samizdat device, an electroautomat, used by František Knotek and Vít Filípek, members of the religious community of Jehovah's Witnesses. This device, comprising modified electric typewriters and a magnetic tape recorder, was designed to efficiently produce religious literature, circumventing state censorship. Despite extensive investigations and expert analyses, the authorities failed to identify the creators of this sophisticated machine, which utilized locally sourced electronic components. The device's ability to record and reproduce text from magnetic tapes represented a significant technological advancement, predating the widespread use of personal computers in samizdat production by a decade. The raid resulted in the confiscation and destruction of thousands of religious texts, causing substantial emotional and material losses for the community. The case highlights the resilience and ingenuity of Jehovah's Witnesses in maintaining their religious practices under oppressive regimes.

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Rolul preoteselor în familie și parohie

Author(s): Vasile Secrieru / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1-2/2024

The presence and involvement of priests’ wives in family life and the parish community is a fundamental aspect of the tradition and organization of the Romanian Orthodox Church. They are viewed as vital support for both the priest and the community, fulfilling multiple roles and responsibilities. Priests’ wives undertake a wide range of activities, from maintaining harmony within the family to coordinating various events and activities within the parish. Through their personal example and active participation, they serve as role models for the community and provide essential support for the spiritual mission of the priest and the Church as a whole.

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Biblical Intertextuality in Ferran de Pol

Author(s): Josep V. Garcia Raffi,Xavier Garcia Raffi / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2024

The main objective of this article is to offer an intertextual study of the presence of the Bible in the work of Ferran de Pol. Intertextuality is understood as the relationship that exists between two or more texts when we can identify in one of them more or less explicit phrases taken from others, in this case from the Bible. We do not analyse any religious intention of the author, but we note that the Bible was undoubtedly one of his formative books. We find the greatest biblical presence in his novels Érem quatre (‘We Were Four’, 1960), Miralls tèrbols (‘Cloudy Mirrors’, 1966) and the unpublished Ella, jo i el càntic (‘She, I and the Song’, 1987). Ferran de Pol’s rewriting of the Bible has multiple and heterogeneous functions: in some cases it acts as the central axis of a specific work, in others it has compositional, rhetorical, satirical, conceptual or parodic functions.

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EELK vaimulike seotus vennastekogudusega 1972. aastal

Author(s): Robert Bunder / Language(s): Estonian Issue: 1 (85)/2024

The connection of Estonian Lutheran clergy with Moravianism in 1972. Moravianism arrived in Estonia at the end of the 1720s. For most of its history it has operated in Estonia as a revival movement in the local Lutheran Church and has not formed independent congregations. There have always been Lutheran pastors who have associated themselves directly with Moravianism and so have supported cooperation of Moravianism and the local Lutheran church. While this connection has been studied quite extensively in the 18th and 19th centuries, it has not gained neccesary attention during the 20th and 21th centuries. Some scholars stress that Moravianism was very influential among the Soviet era Estonian Lutheran clergy but these claims lack statistical evidence. The aim of this article is to show who and how many Estonian Lutheran pastors who worked in the church at 1972 were directly connected with Moravianism. The results of this study show that of the 111 Lutheran pastors in Estonia at 1972, 25 had a direct connection with Moravianism.

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