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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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. ...

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 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 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 ...