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VELIKONJA, Mitja. Titouage - nostalgia for Tito in post-socialist Slovenia

This on empirical examples based article in a thoughtful manner shows the changing social context of post-socialist Slovenia, in which different simbolic appropriation of the figure and work of Josip Broz-Tito respond to the actual political situation. The culturological framework of this text is exemplarily maintened in the reflection of different uses of nostalgia.

COBISS.SI-ID: 28517213

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DEBELJAK, Aleš. Europe, Islam and modern paradigm

The paper’s frame is the imagined Europe, the construction of which historically unfolded ‘via negativa’. By drawing the borders of Europe, symbolic geography necessitated the definition of the ‘Other’. The text identifies this “European other” in Islam and the Muslim, and stresses out the importance of changing the paradigm of “conflict of civilisation” into the “confluence of civilization”.

COBISS.SI-ID: 28517213

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ČRNIČ, Aleš. The changing concept of new age: a case study of spiritual transformation of the Slovenian president.

The article analyses the change in the public praxis of the president of Slovenia Janez Drnovšek, who transformed himself from an technocratic politician into a politician with spiritual mission. The text analyses in details his new-age rhetorics, which Drnovšek employed in his new public image.

COBISS.SI-ID: 28611933

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MALI, Franc. Are there any ethic borders to the development of convergent technologies?

The article shows the impact which the convergent technologies have into the social reality, and questions the possibilities of setting ethic standards to the otherwise almost literary unstoppable development of convergent technologies, which otherwise has no such borders on it’s own.

COBISS.SI-ID: 29113693

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SMRKE, Marjan. Parental values amongst Roman Catholic and non-religious Slovenians.

The right of parents to bring up their children in accordance with their own belief system remains one of the arguments most frequently made by representatives of the Roman Catholic Church as part of the assertion that the Church should play a larger role within the public education system. However, research reveals that only a minority of self-proclaimed Catholics in Slovenia actually share the values of the RCC. The transition has not brought about a clearer Catholic proliferation of parental values amongst Catholics, but rather their adjustment to a broader modernisation of values.

COBISS.SI-ID: 28617821