INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF SCIENCE, THEOLOGY AND ARTS
Young People in Church & Society.
The five panels of Issta 2019
CULTURE AND RURAL SPIRITUALITY: CONVERTING, TRANSFORMING, ADAPTING
To some people there seems to be almost no difference any more between rural and urban areas. The internet seems to have levelled everything. And yet, we believe that, in order to restore true … read more
RITUAL BEHAVIOR, EDUCATION AND THE TRANSFER OF KNOWLEDGE
Religious and cultural rituals situate human beings within particular communities and educate them on the community's core patterns of knowledge and culture, of religious beliefs and … read more
RURAL HERITAGE: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE
In the evening of the day of the Resurrection, the Lord Jesus Christ was performing the Mystery of the Holy Eucharist in front of two of His disciples, in a house in the little village of Emaus near … read more
RURAL EUROPE BETWEEN GLOBALIZATION AND URBANIZATION
Beyond the hamartiological symbolism of total degradation as a sign of rebellion against God, the Vetero-Testamentary history of the tower of Babel (Gen. 11: 1-9) is the effigy of non-identitary urban globalism, as opposed to sacralized and pnevmatized[1] rural personalism. Built on the bases of a … read more
LITURGICAL ART IN THE RURAL AREAS OF TRANSYLVANIA AS COMPARED TO THE AREAS OF BYZANTINE TRADITION
The proposed topic aims mainly at indentifying the specific morphological elements of liturgical art which define the particular features of church painting in the wooden churches built on the territory of Romania, in relation to the places of worship extant in the former diocese of Caesarea in … read more