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BOOK REVIEW: Joachim G. Persoon, "Spirituality, Power and Revolution: Contemporary Monasticism in Communist Ethiopia" / Vaclav Jezek, "Overview of the Orthodox Church During Communism", Volos Academy of Theological Studies, Volos, 2014, 545 p.
Get PDFIn 2014, in special circumstances, the Volos Theological Academy in Greece, published a book written by two authors about the relationships between the Orthodox Church and Communism. The first part of it (p. 11-259), signed by the English researcher Joachim G. Persoon, specialised in the history of the Ethiopian Church (he gained his PhD at the School of Oriental and African Studies from the University of London), is in fact the PhD thesis of the first author. Divided in six chapters, the book comprises a series of introductory elements (pp. 11-50) like the literature used by the author in the process of documentation (pp. 15-17), theoretical concepts (pp. 22-29, aesthetical aspects (pp. 30-39), and terminology (p. 39), a big exploration of the history of the monastic life from the area (pp. 51-117) and the most important aspects that defined this life during Darg’s Communist period. The author presents the main geographic aspects and shows how they influenced the development of the monastic life in the area, talks about the importance of the sacred dance for the Ethiopian religion and culture and about the importance of the rules in Ethiopian monasticism and about the importance of the abbeys in the process of evangelism, and presents some examples of important monasteries, chosen from the almost 1000 (p. 14) existing on that territory
Joachim G. Persoon, Spirituality, Power and Revolution
Get PDFIn a special way, the Volos Theological Academy from Greece published in 2014 a book written by two authors about the relationships between the Orthodox Church and Communism. The first part of it (p. 11- 259), signed by the English researcher Joachim G. Persoon, specialised in the history of the Ethiopian Church (he gained his PhD at the School of Oriental and African Studies from the University of London), is in fact the PhD thesis of the first author
BOOK REVIEW: Protos. Dr. Benedict Vesa, "Personalităţi duhovniceşti contemporane" ["Contemporary spiritual personalities"], 1st volume (Cluj-Napoca: Renaşterea, 2016)
Get PDFThe contemporary Orthodox Theological research needs works that provide an overview of the most important biographies and works in the Christian space, and that creates bridges among different faiths. Now, this need is partly fulfilled by the first volume from the series Contemporary spiritual personalities, written by Father Benedict Vesa. The author, well-known in the Romanian Theological research, provides a list of 24 biographies of contemporary personalities from the Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant space, highlighting the defining element of their lives. Thus, in an unusual presentation, the reader discovers, gathered together, Orthodox Saints: John of Kronstadt (p. 37-44), Nectarios of Aegina (p. 45-52), Nicholas Velimirović (p. 69-76), Maria Skobtsova (p. 77-84), Porphyrios the Kapsokalyvite (pp. 133-140), John Jacob of Neamţ (p. (149-156), Paisios of Mount Athos (p. 205-212), Catholic Saints: Thérèse of the Child Jesus (p. 61-69), Maximilian Kolbe (pp. 93-100), Teresa of Calcutta (p. 141-148), Pier Giorgio Frassati (p. 197-204), Faustina Kowalska (p. 125-132), or Chiara Lubich (p. 181-188) and Protestant spiritual personalities like Dag Hammarskjöld (p. 117-124). Each title contains the name of the spiritual character and one of his/her important qualities, which is then analysed in the presentation. Therefore, when the author speaks about Saint John of Kronstadt, he highlights the importance of the Liturgy in his spirituality (p. 37), when he speaks about Saint Maria Skobtsova, he highlights her mundane apostolate (p. 7), when he presents Maximilian Kolbe, he speaks about his apostolate of love manifested in martyrdom (p. 93), when he speaks about Dag Hammarskjöld, he emphasises the way in which, in his love, the political career and the mystique of faith interacted (p. 117), and s. o
BOOK REVIEW: Bosko I. Bojovic – "L\u27Eglise Orthodoxe Serbe. Histoire – spiritualite – modernite", Institute des Etudes Balkaniques, Belgrade, 2014, 372 p.
Get PDFThe history of the Serbian Orthodox Church is not very well known in the Romanian space. Some pages from the works about the history of the universal Church published by authors like Father Ioan Rămureanu , Father Nicolae Chifăr , Father Vasile Muntean or Father Mircea Păcurariu show some aspects of it (especially from the medieval period, when this Church had also a Patriarch) and some works present the relationships between this Church and the Romanian Orthodox Church . However, these works only give a general vision (and not always a complete one) about the history of this important ecclesiastic institution. This is the reason why, in this essay, we will try to present the work of the Serbian historian Bosko I. Bojovic, published in 2014 at the Institute for Balkan Studies in French, which offers a complete presentation of the multi-millenarian Serbian Orthodox Church in a well-known language. The author, who works as research manager at the aforementioned institute, being also a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, a Professor at the Belgrade University and an Associate Professor at Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, already enjoys good recognition amongst contemporary researches. His works, in which he analyses the History of the Byzantine Empire, the one of the Ottoman one and the History of the Balkans are therefore well known
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
BOOK REVIEW: Irina Gorainoff, "Sfântul Serafim de Sarov. Convorbirea cu Motovilov" ["Saint Serafim From Sarov. The Conversation With Motovilov"], translated in Romanian by His Eminence Andrei Andreicuţ (Cluj-Napoca: Renaşterea Publishing House, 2016).
Get PDFDespite being such an important figure for the Orthodox Theology, Saint Seraphim of Sarov is not very well known in Romania. Many of the works dedicated to him are in fact popularising books and a lot of them are difficult to find today. That is why the translation of Irina Gorainoff’s book, dedicated to the conversation between the Russian Saint and Motovilov, his disciple, represents such an important event for us. It brings the Saint to the attention of the contemporary research and it offers the general public the possibility to find out more about Father Seraphim, his ideas and his activity and it returns an important document to the historiographical research. The book is accompanied by a short foreword, written by His Eminence Andrei, Metropolite of Cluj, Maramureş and Sălaj, Archbishop of Vad, Feleac and Cluj, who highlights the fact that Saint Seraphim’s words The goal of Christian life is the acquisition of the Holy Spirit are as valid as ever today and speaks of various ways in which they can be applied
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