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• Experiencing religiosity in prison: First results of qualitative research among long-term prisoners

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  Márta Miklósi

  Márta Fekete

  Miklós Tihanyi

  Máté Sivadó

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  41

  Religion has several positive effects on the life of the prisoner, helping him to cope with prison conditions and can significantly reduce the problems associated with imprisonment. In our qualitative research, we asked long-term prisoners in 3 prisons in Hungary, using a semi-structured interview method, about their perceptions of religiosity, the impact of religion on their life management, and the role they predict religion to play after the end of their sentence. Following a review of the literature, three hypotheses were put forward. We hypothesized that imprisonment is a crisis in the individual’s life that makes him or her open to religious values; religiosity influences the individual’s values and, through them, his or her attitude towards world phenomena; religious prisoners are a lower security risk. The hypotheses are confirmed. Beyond the reintegration of prisoners into society, the analysis of the interviews reveals that some of the narratives not only reflect a desire for reintegration but also a desire to serve as a goal.

• Where is the truth? – Greek catholic high school youth’s justice values

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  Ádám Bencze

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  50

  The purpose of our study is to present what young people think about justice, and how they
  are different from the youth and society of the country. The functioning of a society requires
  that fair conditions prevail in it. However, there are several types of justice. What young people,
  as adults of the future, think about this value is essential for the functioning of a society. We
  present philosophical interpretations and value sociological research on justice, then we define
  the concept of justice for Hungarian society and Hungarian youth. In our research we asked all
  eleventh and twelfth students of a Greek Catholic high school in Eastern Hungary in 2014 and
  2019. Quantitative method was used to compare students’ views on justice with the other young
  people in the country. According to our results during the five years of research, equality was
  more important for young people, especially for the boys. The importance of the value of equality
  was clearly related to the religiosity of the asked young people.

• Understanding Aspects to the Ethnospecific Researches on the Gypsy Jazz

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  Andras A. Gergely

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  69

  The early “research of Gypsies”, romology, then the visible and the hidden processes of
  “tziganology” in anthropology included a shift in the state of understanding between the
  hillside of critical interpretation studies and that of local group psychology. They also involved
  the research of folk tales, dancing, poverty, examining segregation and participatory action
  methodology as well as innovation and rebirth of the musicological research of Gypsy music.
  The terminological aspect of “us” and “others”, expressing alterity and identity, points towards
  the more complex study of (ethnic) “minorities”, moreover knowledge and field studies, and
  results of examining narratives (such as tales, dances, visual worksof art, publicity, religion and
  community), bring us closer (by way of political and scientific pragmatism) to signalling a new
  era of empathic understanding. The aim of the paper is to highlight the ways leading to that
  goal, putting the musical aspects of the shift in focus, consisting of stylistic inventions, a worldmusic-based openness towards instruments and performance cultures, which nevertheless still
  carries the signs of a new era of projection and knowledge contents, first-person-narrative and
  narrative identities. Finding answers to the question “where did it come from” might be aided
  by contemplating “where does it go”. This would be both the aim and partially the structure of
  my thematic essay.