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• On the Roma issue again - Discourse analysis and reality

  265-274

  Péter Alabán

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  43

  At the end of the first decade of the new millennium, several works on the Hungarian Roma, their history, their current exclusion and their unresolved social situation, based on the same approach, partly on social history and partly on sociological surveys, appeared. Gábor Kertesi in 2005 ("On the margins of society. Roma in the labour market and in school") and Csaba Dupcsik in 2009 ("The history of the Hungarian Roma. History in the light of Gypsy studies 1890-2008") were published by Osiris Publishing House, while Tünde Virág's 2010 book ("Kirekesztve. Falusi gettók az ország margemén") was published by Akadémiai Kiadó as a result of a successful OTKA grant.
  The most recently published work, presented at the 83rd Festive Book Week, is the first joint publication of Balázs Majtényi, a constitutional lawyer who is concerned with the protection of human rights, and György Majtényi, a historian who is particularly interested in the cultural and social history of the 20th century (including the Kádár era). The book, which can be ordered online with two different hardcover editions, was based on a 2003 study, which was later jointly expanded, combining the research results of several disciplines and "maturing" into a separate volume. However, it fails to provide the in-depth analysis of the subject of the title: it (also) fails to provide a factual social portrait of realities, of phenomena experienced and lived on a day-to-day basis, of phenomena examined from several perspectives, and of realistic alternatives to solutions.

• Pastoral care for the Gypsies/Romas: Societal engagement of the Churches

  86-106

  Dezső Oláh

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  50

  In my adolescence, I noticed that in my small hometown village of Nógrád County, the majority
  of the Romani don’t attend mass and sever their ties with Roman Catholic religion. This tendency
  remains to this very day, and I continue to experience the same thing where I now live in Pest
  County. What could be the reason for this separation? I set out to find the answer with the help
  of twenty years of experience as a divinity teacher and my previous empirical sociology research.
  Is the clergy to be blamed for the large numbers of Gypsies and non-Gypsies leaving the fold?
  I wanted to personally find an answer to the question from the concerned parties. Therefore,
  at the permission of the bishop of the Diocese of Vác, as a Roman Catholic civilian theologian,
  I visited the pastors of the Historical Churches at the various offices and parishes to ask them
  questions about the Romani.