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to the service of “Hungarology”. Oriental Studies became an ancillary discipline to the national discipline of “Hungarology”. This process is clearly represented in the difference between the careers that Goldziher and Vámbéry made in Hungary versus
The present study examines the fate of a Greek Catholic parish in Székely Land, more specifically the inhabitants of Kostelek (Coşnea) based on the archival and anthropological field research of the author placing it within the context of the findings of earlier research on the 20th century identification struggles of Hungarian-speaking Greek Catholics in Hungary. For Greek Catholics of Ruthenian and Romanian origin assimilated to the majority Hungarians, their linguistic-national and religious identities were often incompatible during the 20th century. The problematic situations resulting from this “collision of identities” were treated by individual communities in a variety of ways, and Hungarian Greek Catholics living within changing state lines chose various identification routes. The case study presented here will demonstrate that all this, beyond the political changes, was closely related to the pastoral activity of the local priesthood and to particular local conditions.
The paper is an analysis and synthesis of the beliefs and knowledge of the Hungarians from Romania concerning the genesis of the world and the celestial bodies (sky, Earth, Sun, Moon, stars, rainbow); furnishing new details about the whole popular cosmogony of the Hungarians living in the Eastern part of the Carpathian basin. The author tries to present a comprehensive aspect of this domain based on fieldwork and the literature. He also refers to most recent beliefs such as ideas connected to landing on the Moon.
Hoffmann, István - Dezső Juhász - János Péntek (eds) 2002. Hungarológia és dimenzionális nyelvszemlélet. Előadások az V. Nemzetközi Hungarológiai Kongresszuson [Hungarology and a dimensional view of language. Papers presented at the Fifth International
), and a PhD candidate at the Doctoral School of Hungarology Studies, Babeş–Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca, Romania). Due to his ethnobotanical, ethnoecological, economic ethnographic and historical horticulture research in Transylvania (Romania) and
