River archaeology – a new tool for historical hydrology

River archaeology is consisting of underwater research of the rivers themselves, and also the archaeology of the valleys/floodplains with special interest in humanenvironmental interactions (reconstructing space, environment, economy and society on the basis of the material culture and traces of human impacts). As historical hydrology is occupying similar questions from the hydrologist’s point of view, the combination of different approaches offers fruitful cooperation for both disciplines. The paper presents the type, nature and problems of archaeological record through recent work in the Drava river basin

Historical analysis of strategies for assimilation and identity maintenance in dispersed groups of overseas Hungarians and their relevance regarding national policy planning

Small grant proposal for the period between August 1, 2015 – December 31, 2015 of the Kelemen Mikes Program; for collecting the legacy of the Hungarian diaspora from documents of libraries and archives, and for the historical study of these communities

Disciplinar boundaries in the sociological examination of modes of human symbioses

Today, researches conducted within the discipline of sociology seems to have a relatively analogous vison on the quality of being of human nature and collective existence and, as a consequence, on social reality. In this paper, we will try to show that the concept of social reality is far from being universally valid as a generalization of human coexistences at the macro level, and that the understanding of the object of sociology require adressing the totality of the modes of human symbioses, many of them posessing collective qualities currently outside the scope of social sciences. The proposed solution is the reconstruction of the disciplinary characteristics of sociology in terms of an imaginative narrative, where theological explications of society belongs to the same narrative category as mainstream frame of analyses bound by a modernist ontology and epistemology

Tematikus és térbeli minták a kortárs vallásszociológiai kutatásokban

In the literature of sociology of religion, there is a considerable scarcity of recent thematic meta-analyses. In this paper, we demonstrate the usefulness of such analyses to study thematic and spatial patterns of Christianity-focused results presented in high-impact journals. First, we created a new sampling and data cleaning protocol for collecting and selecting data from EBSCO and journal websites. Categorization was inductive and based on Grounded Theory. During the process, we identified eleven major themes in Christianity-focused research; each of these further divided into subtopics. Than all selected articles were further investigated in terms of first author affiliation, journal editor affiliation and journal publisher’s geographic location. Results shows that the analysis we have performed concerning 160 articles published in „A”-category international journals provided not only a structured overview of current themes in Christianity-focused research within the field, but also identified a major anglo-saxon research environment bias valid through both religion-specific and general studies