Inter-Institutional Social Partnerships Between The State And The Church In Romania (With Reference To The Child Protection)

• Authors: Ion Petrică
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Compared to the European countries, the sociologic research related to religiousness and religious affiliation ranks Romania among the most religious countries, this aspect being proved also by the active positioning of the Church in society, especially in the public space. The verification of the phenomenon may be done also through our research theme, which has a content focused on social work, whose result may be used accordingly. There are publications in the field of social work also containing chapters about the Church as an institution, describing the specific activities with social character (either of philanthropy, or of empirical assistance, or even professionalised social work). Nevertheless, most papers mention the Church only in the description of some historical aspects of social work in Romania. Our topic is new because a research similar to ours has not been conducted in Romania yet, in our opinion, as in all bibliographic sources used in the writing of our paper he have found no research approaching such topics. The entire scientific endeavour starts from the formal systematic and non-systematic collaboration already existing between Churches and DGASPCs, but in order to scientifically validate this hypothesis we chose to conduct also a quantitative analysis of the data collected through a questionnaire with closed questions. The main purpose of our paper is the highlighting of the specificity of the interaction between the Church and the social work practice in Romania, through the existing partnership links between the State and the Church.

Keywords

EN

child protection; State; social partnership; Church; social work

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: European Review Of Applied Sociology
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 10
• Pages: 11-22

Dates

published

2015-06-01

online

2015-06-15

Contributors

author

Ion Petrică

• University ”Eftimie Murgu” of Resiţa, Romania

References

• Andria, A. (2007) Liberal democracy and globalisation. In Liberal democracy and globalisation, eds. Graham Watson and Katherine Durrant, 35-45, Bucharest: Ziua Editions.
• Allport, G.W. (1950) The Individual and His Religion: A Psychobiological Interpretation. New York: Macmillan.
• Baechler, J. (2006) Religion. In Treaty of sociology, 2nd edition, ed. Raymond Boudon, 501-545. Bucharest: Humanitas.
• Blackburn, S. (1999) Dictionary of philosophy (Oxford). Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic.
• Buzducea, D. (2009) Modern systems of social assistance / Global trends and local practices. Iaşi: Polirom.
• Carp, R. (2007). State, Church, citizens - in search of a European model of religions. In For a Christianity of new Europe, eds. Teodor Baconsky et al., 298-300, Bucharest: Humanitas.
• Ellis, A. (1980) Psychotherapy and atheistic values, a response to A. E. Bergin’s Psychotherapy and religious values, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 48:635-639.
• Friedman, J. (2000) Cultural identity and global process. London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi: SAGE Publications.
• Freud, S. (1953) The Future of an Illusion. New York: Liveright.
• Giddens, A. (2000) Sociology. Bucharest: ALL.
• Gallup, G. jr. & Lindsay, D. M. (1999) Surveying the Religions Landscape: Trends in US Beliefs, Harrisburg PA: Morehouse.
• Ingelhart, R. (2000) Culture and democracy. In Culture matters. Human values shape human progress, eds. Lawrence E. Harrison and Samuel P. Huntington, New York: Basic Books.
• Johnson, G. A. (2007) Blackwell dictionary of sociology. Bucharest: Humanitas.
• Jung, C. (1933) Modern Man in Search of a Soul. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
• Lenski, G. E. (1961) The religious factor; a sociological study of religion's impact on politics, economics, and family life. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday.
• Mănoiu, F. & Epureanu, V. (1996) Social work in Romania. Bucharest: ALL.
• Nicolae, L. (2006) Romania’s true Europeanisation,
• Otto, R. (1992) [1917] Das Heilige. Ueber das Irrationale in der Idee des Göttlichen und sein Verhälnis zum Rationalen, English translation: The sacred: on the irrational element in the idea of the divine and about its relation with the irrational, Cluj: Dacia.
• Petrică, I. (2010) Complementarity between the Church and the Romanian state regarding the child protection. Timişoara: Nepsis/Eurobit.
• Petrică, I. (2012) The church and social work in Romania. Iaşi: The European Institute.
• Sandu, D. (1999) The social space of transition. Iaşi: Polirom.
• Schwartz, H. Salom and Huismans, Sander. 1995. Value priorities and religiosity in four Western religions. Social Psychology Quarterly 58: 88-107.
• Tufiş, C. (2007) Institutional trust-victim of post-Communist transition. In Values of Romanians, eds. Bogdan, Voicu & Mălina, Voicu, 117-149. Iaşi: The European Institute.
• Tompea, D. (2003) Ethics of social work and construction of the professional paradigm. In Treaty of social work, ed. George Neamţu, 401-464. Iaşi: Polirom.
• Voicu, M. (2007). The religious Romania, Iaşi: The European Institute.
• Vraşti, R. (2006). Relation between religiosity / spirituality and physical and mental health,
• ***The Romanian Academy. 2001. History of Romanians. vol. IV. Bucharest: The Enciclopedic Editions.
• ***The National Authority for the Protection of Children’s’ Rights. 2006. Role of priests in the protection and promotion of children's rights. Bucharest: Trei.
• ***Law no. 272/2004 regarding the protection and promotion of children’s rights in Romania’s Official Gazette, Part I no. 557 of 23rd June 2004.
• ***Law no.273/2004 regarding the legal regime of adoption republished in 2009 The Law of Adoption in Romania’s Official Gazette, Part I no. 788 of 19th November 2009.
• ***Law no. 274/2004 regarding the creation, organisation and operation of the Romanian Office for Adoption and republished in 2010 in Romania’s Official Gazette, Part I no. 108 of 17th February 2010.
• ***Law no. 292/2011 regarding the national system of social work in Romania’s Official Gazette no. 905 of 20th December 2011.
• ***Law no. 275/2004 regarding the National Authority for the Protection of Children' Rights in Romania’s Official Gazette no. 557 of 23rd June 2004.
• ***Government Decision no. 1434/2004 regarding the attributions and Frame Regulation for the organisation and operation of the General Direction of Social Work and Child protection in Romania’s Official Gazette no. 869/2004.

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/eras-2015-0002