Despite the contributorsโ cultural diversity (29 researchers from 16 countries โ England, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Nigeria, Poland, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Spain, U.S.A., and Zimbabwe โ 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 personโs 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 is Prof. Dr. Hab. in the Faculty of Letters at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Following his PhD dissertation in Philology (West University of Timiลoara, 2004), Dr. Felecan has written widely on the field of onomastics including three books as author (The Concept of โWorkโ โ A Sociolinguistic Perspective in Diachrony โ 2004; The Romanian Language in European Context โ 2009; An Onomastic Excursion into Contemporary Romanian Public Space โ 2013), three books as co-author (& Nicolae Felecan: The Latin Language. Grammar and Texts โ 2007, 2008; Annotated Everyday Dictionary of Latin Abbreviations, Phrases, Maxims and Quotations โ 2007; Multum in parvo. Annotated Latin Phrases and Quotations โ 2013, 2018), eleven volumes as (co-)editor, and over one hundred studies (in journals, proceedings, and books from 15 countries). He has managed two research projects,โMultiethnic Connections in the Anthroponymy of Maramureล, a Central European Areaโ (2009โ2011) and โOnomastics in the Contemporary Romanian Public Space: Socio- and Psycholinguistic Researchโ (2010โ2013), and has organized the four editions of the International Conference on Onomastics โName and Namingโ.ย