The study presents the religious art researches from the Reformed Eparchy of Tiszántúl in the 20th century, respectively the most eminent scholars who initiated these activities. The author states that in the region in ...
The study presents the antecedents and the circumstances of the founding of the Reformed Museum of Transylvania, opened in September 2017, its activities and objectives. The institution opened its gates with a temporary ...
Since the now-classic book of Erika Bourguignon was published in 1976, a whole library of works has been written on the issue of the so-called demonic possession by representatives of different scientific disciplines and ...
The specialists of the old Ciuc region used to have heartache or to yawn during incantation. This might be related to a pre-Christian, shamanistic tradition combined with a kind of “paraliturgical, folk” religion, but also ...
An important contribution to the history of the religious life of Újkígyós was found written by hand on an empty page of an old, used book of prayers, probably the collection of Lajos Takácsy called Orgonavirágok. The text ...
In this rimland situated in a contact zone between east and west the majority of the population has kept its faith even in the hardest periods of religious persecution. The connection with the highest power was realized ...
Based on the results of the research of folk religiosity and local media history the author seeks an answer to the question: how does the media – as a new register of knowledge – integrate into the religious life and folk ...
The study analyzes the influence of the so-called “Hungarian style”, a specific style of photography quite popular at the middle of the 20th century, on the visual representation of the Hungarian landscape in the public ...
We consider humor a universal cognitive/emotional experience, which includes the inner redefinition of sociocultural reality, and creates a funny state of mind expressed by reactions of laughter and smile. The research of ...
The study presents a folk custom which is related to the patron saint’s pilgrimage at Saint Martin’s Day in the settlement of Halászi, a procession with decorated horses. The changes of the procession reflect in fact the ...
The present study describes the way how members of the local rural and urban communities dealt with the different systems of healing in the 18th century. The author analyze three types of sources: the 18th and 19th century ...
The study analyzes the pulp literature of György Gitzy, a “saint” man from the Little Hungarian Plain, who was active in the last third of the 19th century, respectively the influence of these writings on the cult of Mary. ...
In the modern period of the several centuries’ old history of Whit pilgrimage from Șumuleu Ciuc, in the last eleven years a new phenomenon has arisen: on Sunday tens of thousands of people go to the Chapel from Contumaț, ...
The study analyzes a part of the results of the author’s research in the Unitarian villages of Szeklerland (Cechești, Filiaș, Merești, Gălești, Nicoleni și Secuieni), research that was started in 2008. On the one hand the ...
The study presents a folk custom which is quite rare today, a revival, the election of the Whitsun king and queen in the village of Lăzarea. Besides historical data, the author analyzes such specific local variants of the ...
The study analyzes the religious and social changes of a Pentecostal Roma community from a multiethnic village, respectively the relations between the migration processes and conversion to Pentecostalism. In the first part ...
The analysis presents the annual Roman Catholic Whitsun pilgrimage from Ghimeș-Făget, organized since 2008, and the Orthodox Whitsun Festival, organized on the same day or on different days since 2011. It has two major ...
The Marianum Institute was the first congregational girls’ gymnasium of Hungary. The events of the school year related to the Christian calendar and the activity of the religious societies – especially the adoration of the ...
In her study the author examines the religious practices of Subcarpathian women who – after the system change from Ukraine in 1991 and the opening of the borders – were/are working abroad taking care of elder people. She ...
The present study presents the endeavors of Georg Schreiber, L. A. Veit and contemporary German ethnography of religion, respectively their impact on Elemér Schwartz. The latter was not only a scholar and a university ...