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Paper is based on the understanding of globalization as a complex phenomenon and focuses on detecting of cultural contours of globalization process. Globalization is studied today in many contexts: global civilization and its risks in current stage of historical development, pitfalls of multiculturalism, cultural plurality and cultural difference both as set of values, nature of the differences among cultures, their influence on international relations and on addressing of global problems, global cultural gap, cultural unification and mass culture, global identity. Frequent topic of discourse of cultural studies is globalization of culture concieved as occidentalization and americanization which threaten cultural diversity through cultural assimilation by commodities or gender aspects of globalization. The present text deals with just these topics in a brief outline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 1887 Arthur Conan Doyle acquainted the world with the first adventure of a consulting detective from 221B Baker Street, London. After a few years, Sherlock Holmes became an iconic figure of fictional detective - he was read about, admired, parodied, and adapted both for stage and screen. Sherlock Holmes has become one of the symbols of the Late Victorian Age. But in the 21st century, Sherlock Holmes is still popular. Long time ago the famous detective broke the spatial and temporal borders set by his creator. In the British-American television series Sherlock (2010 - 2017) re-imagination of Holmes' world is interrelated with the realia of the 21st century - nicotine patches, drones, Closed-Circuit Television cameras, smart phones, computers, memory sticks, the Internet. Sherlock Holmes' life is too often dependent on virtual reality: the great detective is a great manipulator and mystificator, but sometimes he is manipulated and mystified. In the television series, different expressions of virtual reality are represented with two dominating ones: as an inevitable characterization of the 21st-century life and as a metaphor of the image of a detective-computer whose brain is hard disk drive represented by so-called mind palace. The present research is the study of phenomenon of virtual reality in the 21st-century screen adaptation of Holmesian saga applying comparative and structurally-semiotic methods, thus focusing on the representation of spatial and temporal landmarks of traditional and modern Sherlock Holmes' world and the depiction of a detective's figure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the 21st Century, the market of European religious beliefs is overloaded and that leads to a "depreciation" of traditional religions. On the other side, the widespread atheism in certain areas of Europe recreates the modus vivendi of man in his relation with his own religious tradition. To be and to show you religious in the 21st Century is retrograde in the eyes of the postmodern man, often called "post-Christian". If in the frame of education the religious expression is sometimes sanctioned by tough retorts, the dechristianization and the atheism are not. In education, the presence of Religion among other disciplines, and the presence of religious symbols in schools, especially the Bible and the icons, have sparked controversies in the media, when atheism in the educational system was rarely discussed or fought. The process of secularization that catches scale confirms the desire of modern man to have a society without religion or, if that is not possible, at least a religion without revelation, without Bible. The inspired Scriptures of the Old and New Testament is the word of God to humanity. Therefore, in the context of a secular society it is necessary to refresh biblical themes and theological truths. This study is based on the analysis of modern human priorities and its axiology in the new contexts of society, with the purpose to find a biblical solution for a renewal of our European community. We also wish to highlight the importance of Bible study in the academic and scientific context. Beginning with the Old Testament prophetic experiences, we want to argue that biblical education should not be percept only as a science but also in another dimension, the contemplative one, as an experience of the revealed truth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]