SAECULUMPub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.2478/saec-2022-0011
Silviu-Constantin Nedelcu
{"title":"The Evolution of the Religious Discourse in the Pages of the Journal Calendarul “Bunului creștin” from Sibiu between the years 1944-1949","authors":"Silviu-Constantin Nedelcu","doi":"10.2478/saec-2022-0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/saec-2022-0011","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The present study aims to analyze the religious discourse in the Calendar of the „Good Christian” in the issues of 1945-1949. The paradigm shift of language, which can be clearly seen from the texts presented, begins on August 23, 1944 and continues after December 30, 1947, the date on which the monarchy in our country was abolished. If, at the beginning, the point of view of Metropolitan Nicolae Bălan of Transylvania had been strongly anti-communist, after 1946, the tone of his articles „softened a little”, thus, suggesting an approach to the communist regime that had established the country’s leadership. The number of pro-Soviet and communist texts increased exponentially. The official the official direction of those texts was given after 1948, after King Michael I had already abdicated. After 1949, all references to the Royal House disappeared from the pages of the periodical and new „holidays” were introduced to the people, such as „Labor Day” (May 1), „Victory, Independence and Heroes’ Day” (May 9), as well as „Proclamation of the Romanian People’s Republic” (December 30).","PeriodicalId":42120,"journal":{"name":"SAECULUM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45190917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SAECULUMPub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.2478/saec-2022-0008
Ioana-Tatiana Ciocan
{"title":"(Re) configurations of Symbolist Poetry under the Sphere of the Than-atotic Imaginary","authors":"Ioana-Tatiana Ciocan","doi":"10.2478/saec-2022-0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/saec-2022-0008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper discusses Maria Racu’s exegetical volume - The Thanatotic Imaginary in the Lyric of George Bacovia and Ion Minulescu. The theme addressed by the author, perhaps more topical than ever, illustrates the symbolic representations of the imaginary of death/Thanatos in the poetry of our two poets: George Bacovia and Ion Minulescu. This article follows Maria Racu’s research approach, identifying the reading grids and the aspects of novelty in the space of the literary imaginary. The directions of analysis will include images of temporality, Bacovian space and hypostases of the erotic in Minulescu’s poems, as well as catamorphic symbols in symbolist poetry.","PeriodicalId":42120,"journal":{"name":"SAECULUM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43917654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SAECULUMPub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.2478/saec-2022-0001
I. Narița
{"title":"Communication Acts","authors":"I. Narița","doi":"10.2478/saec-2022-0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/saec-2022-0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract A communication act divides a certain population into three classes: destination, excluded and indifferent people. The goal of the source is the message to be received by all addressees and by no excluded ones. Therefore, the efficiency of a communication act is proportionally to the reunion between the addressees who receive the message and the excluded who do not receive it. The source can increase the efficiency degree through the channel and the code used for sending messages. However, there is no way to certainly achieve the maximum efficiency of our communication acts.","PeriodicalId":42120,"journal":{"name":"SAECULUM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49006283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SAECULUMPub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.2478/saec-2022-0005
Ioana-Ciliana Tudorică
{"title":"The Use of Japanese Calligraphy when Promoting Japanese Traditional Products","authors":"Ioana-Ciliana Tudorică","doi":"10.2478/saec-2022-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/saec-2022-0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The article depicts the use of Japanese calligraphy (shodō) as a way to artistically create the logos of Japanese or Japanese-inspired products and restaurants in the food industry. Japanese calligraphy is a complex art that developed gradually, together with the writing system in Japan and, as a result, it manages to encompass both traditional elements that have remained unchanged over the course of years, as well as modern elements that reflect the calligrapher’s unique view. For this reason, shodō has been used in creating Japanese and Japanese-themed products, as means to portray tradition and authenticity within a brand. This practice is still used in the present, with more and more businesses opting for a calligraphic logo, not only in Japan, but also outside the country. This article analyses the use of shodō as means to promote and create a brand’s image, as well as the unique benefits of calligraphy. In order to better understand this phenomenon, the article ultimately assesses the logo of a Japanese restaurant situated in Romania that uses as logomark a calligraphic work created by the Romanian calligrapher Rodica Frențiu.","PeriodicalId":42120,"journal":{"name":"SAECULUM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44062133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SAECULUMPub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.2478/saec-2022-0006
Daniela Cîmpean
{"title":"Alterity Ethics – Levinas","authors":"Daniela Cîmpean","doi":"10.2478/saec-2022-0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/saec-2022-0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract According to the French phenomenologist Emmanuel Levinas, ethics – not ontology – is “the first philosophy”. In the following Article, we will reconstruct the Levinasian ethics from the perspective of the primacy of alterity, arguing that this focus on the Other may also have consequences for business ethics. The distinction between the Same (Le Même) and the Other (L’Autre) helps the French thinker to surpass a solipsistic ontology (from Plato to Heidegger) and to get to the definition of the absolute radicality of the Other. The Other of Levi-nas, the “Stranger in his strangeness,” irreducible to Me, receives the face of the “disadvantaged” (poor, widow, orphan, refugee, beggar, etc.), whom I must greet. Ethics can be summed up in the concept of “Being-for-the-Other” (the co-rigid opening of otherness to ipseity) or, in other words, “my goodness” (according to Platonic philosophy, which showed that Good transcends both Essence and Being). The Heideggerian phenomenology of death is transcended by Levinas under the influence of the ethics of otherness from Martin Buber’s I and Thou. Levinas claimed that the “death of the Other” is the “first death” starting from the biblical commandment “Thou shall not kill.”","PeriodicalId":42120,"journal":{"name":"SAECULUM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48161420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SAECULUMPub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.2478/saec-2022-0007
Rodica Grigore
{"title":"The Reality of Violence and the Violence of Reality in Mario Vargas Llosa’s Novels","authors":"Rodica Grigore","doi":"10.2478/saec-2022-0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/saec-2022-0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Mario Vargas Llosa’s work explores the structures and mechanisms of power, either political or social, the Peruvian writer constantly placing his characters in the complex context of a world dominated by violence. But violence does not always guarantee success, on the contrary, it often brings about loneliness and rejection of some of his major protagonists either by their friends and family or, at times, by the entire community they live in and wish to represent. All these can be analyzed in his novels centered upon contemporary historical issues, such as The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta (1984) and Death in the Andes (1993), where the central characters have to face death and to find the most adequate answer to the challenge of various violent forces. The real Peru is turned into a symbolic domain of fear and mystical practice, suggesting a new kind of fictional reality, expressing a society mentally blocked within its own traditions and practically unable (or unwilling) to get over them.","PeriodicalId":42120,"journal":{"name":"SAECULUM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41499888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SAECULUMPub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.2478/saec-2022-0004
Radu Stănese
{"title":"Emoji – the Digital Age Glyphe","authors":"Radu Stănese","doi":"10.2478/saec-2022-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/saec-2022-0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The “global village” predicted by Marshall McLuhan referred among others, to the individual’s sense of intimate belonging to a planetary collective identity. Compared to the informational content of writing on social media, the emotional component has at least the same importance, which is why completing the text with suggestive icons has become more than a trend. The transition from emoticon to kaomoji and then to emoji captures an important evolution in terms of the individual’s identity in online media. The widening of the iconic register with objective and corporeal details indicates an articulation of the hybrid language with a reminiscent figurative morphology of ancient glyphs. Further on, bitmoji foresees the need for individual identity in the virtual world of Metaverse, where the NFT avatar will represent, most likely, the unique and idealized version of the user.","PeriodicalId":42120,"journal":{"name":"SAECULUM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46163755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SAECULUMPub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.2478/saec-2022-0003
I. Cretu
{"title":"Language competence in media during the pandemic – interlanguage aspects","authors":"I. Cretu","doi":"10.2478/saec-2022-0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/saec-2022-0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Free media is essential for a democratic society. The limitations of media freedom and freedom of speech despite of pluralism of the press in former communist countries in Southeast of Europe, including Romania, are related to media ownership, but also with gaps in the national legislation. But it is also not to be overlooked that today not only in these countries the original information journalism has often changed to an entertainment journalism. In times of crisis, sober and factual information is particularly important. This article examines the structures that occur in reports and news about Corona, in the Romanian media and also in comparable language and style elements in the German press. The examples concern the language of the online media of the most popular information sources (from publications as well as from audio media and news agencies). The criteria of the chosen examples are mainly lexical aspects, but also stylistic differences. The characteristics of media language during the Corona pandemic include specific constructions such as the use of new formations and technical terms, as well as compound words and foreign words, but also differences in the style of reporting. The observed difference in the style of reporting contributes to increased uncertainty and feelings of fear during Corona times. The flood of information in particular creates the risk of narcotic dysfunction in the mass media. There is the possibility of under informing or even failure of the information function of the media due to different media usage and the use of information sources that often do not correspond to quality journalism. In times of crisis, the threat to freedom of the press also increases. The conclusion of the article is that a better media education and media training is needed to avoid manipulation but also the tabloidization of the press.","PeriodicalId":42120,"journal":{"name":"SAECULUM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49543604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SAECULUMPub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.2478/saec-2022-0009
D. Dragoman
{"title":"Sacre And Secular In The History And The Sociology Of Religion: Comparing Eliade And Weber","authors":"D. Dragoman","doi":"10.2478/saec-2022-0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/saec-2022-0009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract While focusing exclusively on the merely human dimensions of religious communities and by strongly emphasizing the domination features of the relationship between priests and other charismatic religious leaders and their followers, Weber accomplishes what was dreamed about the functioning of science as free of all value. However, a value-free sociology of religion misses much of the reality behind the most banal manifestation, namely especially when it excludes the mystical component. In contrast, the history of religion promoted by Eliade is careful enough as not to obliterate what lies at the heart of the religious experience, namely the sacred. With no respect to the sacred that manifests through human acts, values and beliefs, power is the ultimate aspect which one can take into account when looking at any religious community.","PeriodicalId":42120,"journal":{"name":"SAECULUM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45900947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SAECULUMPub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.2478/saec-2022-0010
Lucian Grozea
{"title":"The Giants of Reason. Aspects of Liberal Theology on Christianity","authors":"Lucian Grozea","doi":"10.2478/saec-2022-0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/saec-2022-0010","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The present article continues the study of The Cyclopes of Christ, published in the Saeculum Journal in the fall of 2020, and presents the vision of liberal theology on the Christian religion. This article aims to take into account rationalist theology. According to it, between reason and faith - that is, between the two faculties that guide and express the person of each human subject - is a profound divergence in receiving and interpreting the truth of reality, phenomena and events that occur and make up human history. Therefore, in order to understand a revelatory message, a demythologized and, more recently, a secularized theological approach is needed. In his essay, Isus al meu, the Romanian thinker Gabriel Liiceanu initiates such a debate. This article proposes, in turn, its own perspective and is a response to the author already mentioned, as well as to the enthusiastic or vexed readers of his book.","PeriodicalId":42120,"journal":{"name":"SAECULUM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41373979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}