Alina Pătru
Biographic Data
| ID | 1054908 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alina Pătru |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alina |
| FAMILY NAME | Pătru |
| SIGNATURE | PĂTRU A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5811-8306 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Yoga, Hinduism, and the Orthodox Christian Culture
This study examines the attitudes of both instructors and attendees of the confessional Orthodox Christian religion class in Romania toward yoga. It examines whether individuals are more familiar with religious or secular forms of yoga and whether they approach it with curiosity, neutrality, or opposition. As yoga is rooted in Hindu traditions and is often associated with Hinduism when viewed in a religious context, the study also examines the at…
Reincarnation or eternal life? A reassessment of the dilemma from a cultural studies perspective and by resorting to the plurality of Christian eschatologies
The present study starts from the discovery that reincarnationist ideas have spread massively throughout European and Western thought in general, in a framework where the belief in one life was defining. However, the quandary between the two afterlife interpretations in contemporary Western culture is distinct from similar conflicts in other times or places because post-Christian critique of the Christian tradition shapes how reincarnation theory…
Folk Religion in Transformation
The present study deals with some changes identifiable on the level of folk religion, i.e., of the religious expression of ordinary people. Its premises are that folk religion is a subsegment of religion, fulfilling specific functions which official or elite religion fail to satisfy. The paper lies on a theoretical grounding stemming mainly from the Scandinavian school of comparative religion and folkloristics and applies these theories to exampl…
Theological Valorization of the Other from an Orthodox Christian Perspective
This paper analyzes the model of theology of religions elaborated by the Romanian Orthodox theologian Dorin Oancea and highlights the possibilities for openness towards other religious realms and for real theological validation of non-Christian religions. It focuses both on the modern premises of this model and on the ways in which the author ensures its continuity inside the Tradition and its acceptance within the Orthodox-Christian world. Dorin…
Religious spaces as continually evolving modernities
The present study deals with the encounter with modernity in two neighbouring religious spaces: Christian Orthodoxy and Islam. Relying on Eisenstadt’s theory about multiple modernities and on its further developments by Thomas Mergel and Kristina Stoeckl, Islamic and Christian-Orthodox dynamics in relation to the challenges of modernity are examined under two aspects: first, the decoupling between religion and culture as elaborated by Olivier Roy…
Valenţe creatoare ale femininului ancorate în sfera sacrului. Contextualizări religios-culturale europene şi orientale
The paper elaborates on feminine images of the sacred. It aims to show the manner in which feminine specificities are connected to the realm of the sacred within the Eastern Christianity, the ancient Greek religion and in some forms of Hinduism. The emphasis will be placed on the commonalities, as well as the contextual dissimilarities between the different cultural and religious spaces under consideration. The aim of the present paper is to elic…
Religious Diaspora
The present study aims to contribute to the discussion regarding the possibility of conceptualizing a religious diaspora. It proposes a new way of defining it, namely in relation to religious and not to ethno-territorial realities, but without editing the territorial dimension out. After sketching the definition on this theoretical basis, the study refers to six case studies, pointing to the way in which the definitory traits of a religious diasp…
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy's Religious Integrative Thinking
The objective of this essay is to reveal how the intricate relation among speech, time, history, and space was successfully employed by Eugene Rosenstock-Huessy in order to promote a new type of integrative vision based on religious inclusiveness. We have chosen to focus on Rosenstock-Huessy because of his theological thinking that is marked by the presence of the Cross conceived as death and resurrection. Our basic concern is his book, The Chris…
Folk Religion in Transformation
The present study deals with some changes identifiable on the level of folk religion, i.e., of the religious expression of ordinary people. Its premises are that folk religion is a subsegment of religion, fulfilling specific functions which official or elite religion fail to satisfy. The paper lies on a theoretical grounding stemming mainly from the Scandinavian school of comparative religion and folkloristics and applies these theories to exampl…
Religious Diaspora
The present study aims to contribute to the discussion regarding the possibility of conceptualizing a religious diaspora. It proposes a new way of defining it, namely in relation to religious and not to ethno-territorial realities, but without editing the territorial dimension out. After sketching the definition on this theoretical basis, the study refers to six case studies, pointing to the way in which the definitory traits of a religious diasp…
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy's Religious Integrative Thinking
The objective of this essay is to reveal how the intricate relation among speech, time, history, and space was successfully employed by Eugene Rosenstock-Huessy in order to promote a new type of integrative vision based on religious inclusiveness. We have chosen to focus on Rosenstock-Huessy because of his theological thinking that is marked by the presence of the Cross conceived as death and resurrection. Our basic concern is his book, The Chris…
Religious spaces as continually evolving modernities
The present study deals with the encounter with modernity in two neighbouring religious spaces: Christian Orthodoxy and Islam. Relying on Eisenstadt’s theory about multiple modernities and on its further developments by Thomas Mergel and Kristina Stoeckl, Islamic and Christian-Orthodox dynamics in relation to the challenges of modernity are examined under two aspects: first, the decoupling between religion and culture as elaborated by Olivier Roy…
Valenţe creatoare ale femininului ancorate în sfera sacrului. Contextualizări religios-culturale europene şi orientale
The paper elaborates on feminine images of the sacred. It aims to show the manner in which feminine specificities are connected to the realm of the sacred within the Eastern Christianity, the ancient Greek religion and in some forms of Hinduism. The emphasis will be placed on the commonalities, as well as the contextual dissimilarities between the different cultural and religious spaces under consideration. The aim of the present paper is to elic…
Religious Diaspora
The present study aims to contribute to the discussion regarding the possibility of conceptualizing a religious diaspora. It proposes a new way of defining it, namely in relation to religious and not to ethno-territorial realities, but without editing the territorial dimension out. After sketching the definition on this theoretical basis, the study refers to six case studies, pointing to the way in which the definitory traits of a religious diasp…
Reincarnation or eternal life? A reassessment of the dilemma from a cultural studies perspective and by resorting to the plurality of Christian eschatologies
The present study starts from the discovery that reincarnationist ideas have spread massively throughout European and Western thought in general, in a framework where the belief in one life was defining. However, the quandary between the two afterlife interpretations in contemporary Western culture is distinct from similar conflicts in other times or places because post-Christian critique of the Christian tradition shapes how reincarnation theory…
Folk Religion in Transformation
The present study deals with some changes identifiable on the level of folk religion, i.e., of the religious expression of ordinary people. Its premises are that folk religion is a subsegment of religion, fulfilling specific functions which official or elite religion fail to satisfy. The paper lies on a theoretical grounding stemming mainly from the Scandinavian school of comparative religion and folkloristics and applies these theories to exampl…
Theological Valorization of the Other from an Orthodox Christian Perspective
This paper analyzes the model of theology of religions elaborated by the Romanian Orthodox theologian Dorin Oancea and highlights the possibilities for openness towards other religious realms and for real theological validation of non-Christian religions. It focuses both on the modern premises of this model and on the ways in which the author ensures its continuity inside the Tradition and its acceptance within the Orthodox-Christian world. Dorin…
Yoga, Hinduism, and the Orthodox Christian Culture
This study examines the attitudes of both instructors and attendees of the confessional Orthodox Christian religion class in Romania toward yoga. It examines whether individuals are more familiar with religious or secular forms of yoga and whether they approach it with curiosity, neutrality, or opposition. As yoga is rooted in Hindu traditions and is often associated with Hinduism when viewed in a religious context, the study also examines the at…
Philosophy (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Religious studies (5 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Theology (3 works) · Christianity (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Hinduism (2 works) · Law (2 works)