The Clergy of the Orthodox and Greek Catholic Churches of Transylvania: An Attempt at Building a Database
| Autor: | Marius Eppel, Oana Sorescu-Iudean |
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| Jazyk: | ruština |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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| Zdroj: | Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, Vol 21, Iss 3(190), Pp 138-151 (2019) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2227-2283 2587-6929 |
| DOI: | 10.15826/izv2.2019.21.3.052 |
| Popis: | This article focuses on the construction of the “Confessional Infrastructures Database” of Transylvania. It considers the history of interaction, structural and confessional peculiarities of the two major churches in Romania, i.e. the Orthodox and Greek Catholic Churches between the 19th and early 20th centuries. The authors review historical and nominative resources on the history of the clergy of the two churches and the peculiarities and conditions which accompanied the sources characterising the development of the confessional landscape of the country, revealing their information potential. The authors consider building a database containing data about parish priests and parishes themselves a new stage in studying this key social and professional group as it is essential for the history of the region and the entire country. Referring to the research carried out, the authors conclude that the parish clergy played an important part in the history, culture, and development of Transylvania and that it has not been sufficiently examined by modern historiography. The analysis refers to annual reports made by dioceses and known as schematismae which reflect data about the clergy. The authors pay close attention to the potential of digital approaches when working with statistical or nominative records found in sources produced by the Churches for their own use or that of the state. Additionally, the article focuses on issues underlying data unification and encoding which involves several languages (Romanian, Hungarian, and Latin) and the confessional peculiarities of the terminology of the Orthodox and Greek Catholic Churches. It also provides a preliminary outline of the database structure and contents formed by separate thematic tables and formed with regard to information found in the main sources of the research as well as its potential. The database can be further enlarged by other resources. Finally, the database allows for data to be corrected and serve as a source of comparative research. |
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