Onomastics between Sacred and Profane

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Dear Colleagues,

Prof. Oliviu Felecan is glad to let you know that the volume Onomastics between Sacred and Profane has been published by Vernon Press. Here you may find the Table of contents, The Foreword, the Contributors, the Preface and the Indexes (https://vernonpress.com/file/6454/40d1ff9c05cf429a10ef0b152841c60c/1535521847.pdf ). If you are interested to order a copy, you can get a 24% discount using coupon CFC7736DFEE at https://vernonpress.com/book/467

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Religiously, God is the creator of everything seen and unseen; thus, one can ascribe to Him the names of His creation as well, at least in their primordial form. In the mentality of ancient Semitic peoples, naming a place or a person meant determining the role or fate of the named entity, as names were considered to be mysteriously connected with the reality they designated. Subsequently, God gave people the freedom to name persons, objects, and places. However, people carried out this act (precisely) in relation to the divinity, either by remaining devoted to the sacred or by growing estranged from it, an attitude that generated profane names. The sacred/profane dichotomy occurs in all the branches of onomastics, such as anthroponymy, toponymy, and ergonymy. It is circumscribed to complex and interdisciplinary analysis which does not rely on language sciences exclusively, but also on theology, ethnology, sociology, psychology, philosophy, anthropology, geography, history and other connected fields, as well as culture in general. 

Despite the contributors’ cultural diversity (29 researchers from 16 countries – England, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Nigeria, Poland, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Spain, U.S.A., and Zimbabwe – on four continents) and their adherence to different religions and faiths, the studies in Onomastics between Sacred and Profane share a common goal that consist of the analysis of names that reveal a person’s identity and behavior, or the existence, configuration and symbolic nature of a place or an object. One can state that names are tightly connected to the surrounding reality, be it profane or religious, in every geographical area and every historical period, and this phenomenon can still be observed today. The particularity of this book lies in the multicultural and multidisciplinary approach in theory and praxis.

Oliviu Felecan (Ed.)

by Adina Chirilă (West University Of Timișoara, Romania), Gheorghe Chivu (Romanian Academy, University Of Bucharest, Romania), Alina Bugheșiu (Technical University Of Cluj-Napoca, North University Center Of Baia Mare, Romania), Angelika Bergien (Otto Von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany), Vladislav Alpatov (Moscow City Pedagogical University, Russia), Davide Astori (University Of Parma, Italy), Tamás Farkas (Elte Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary), Daiana Felecan (Technical University Of Cluj-Napoca, North University Center Of Baia Mare, Romania), Artur Gałkowski (University Of Łódź, Poland), Solomon Waliaula (Maasai Mara University, Kenya), Alexandru Gafton (“Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University, Iași, Romania), Oliviu Felecan (Technical University Of Cluj-Napoca, North University Center Of Baia Mare, Romania), Nicolae Felecan (Technical University Of Cluj-Napoca, North University Center Of Baia Mare, Romania), Sergey Gorajev (Ural Federal University & Missionary Institute, Russia), Leo Loveday (Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan), Frank Nuessel (University Of Louisville, USA), Idowu Odebode (Redeemer’s University, Ede, Nigeria), Ephraim Nissan, Bertie Neethling (University Of The Western Cape (Uwc), Durban University Of Technology (Dut), South Africa), Mihaela Munteanu Siserman (Technical University Of Cluj-Napoca, North University Center Of Baia Mare, Romania), Sambulo Ndlovu (Great Zimbabwe University, Zimbabwe; University Of Cape Town, South Africa), Roman Razumov (Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University, Russia), Paula Sjöblom (University Of Turku, Finland), Anna Tsepkova (Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, Russia), Tendai Mangena (Great Zimbabwe University, Zimbabwe; University Of The Free State, South Africa), Valéria Tóth (University Of Debrecen, Hungary), Joan Tort Donada (University Of Barcelona, Spain), Mariann Slíz (Elte Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary), Wafa Abu Hatab (Zarqa University, Jordan)

ISBN

978-1-62273-401-6