Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies is the first Romanian journal selected for coverage in Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Current Contents: Arts & Humanities, ISI databases.
Robert Bernasconi Francois Bernier si Brahmanii: Un obstacol în calea conversatiei inter-culturale (Francois Bernier and the Brahmans: Exposing an Obstacle to Cross-cultural Conversation) • p. 107
Nico Vorster Christian Theology and Racist Ideology: A Case Study of Nazi Theology and Apartheid Theology • p. 144
Liviu Andreescu Academic Freedom and Religiously Affiliated Universities • p. 162
Ionut Isac Considerations on Some Historical and Contemporary Issues in Lucian Blaga's Metaphysics • p. 184
Cristian Bârsu, Marina Bârsu Cîteva corelatii medico-istorice, embriologice si teologice referitoare la „coborîrea mintii în inima” (Some Medico-Historical, Embyological and Theological Correlations Concerning "Bringing the Mind Down Into the Heart") • p. 203
Vasile Cristescu O interpretare moderna a vointei umane a Fiului lui Dumnezeu întrupat la Sfîntul Maxim Marturisitorul si Parintii anteriori (A Modern Interpretation of the Human Will of the Son of God Become Man in the Theology of Saint Maximus Confessorand and Fathers before Him) • p. 226
Book Reviews
Sergiu Miscoiu Marius Jucan, Mastile libertatii: America în scrisorile lui Thomas Jefferson (Freedom's Masks: America Seen Through the Letters of Thomas Jefferson) • p. 246
Mihaela Frunza Kwame Anthony Appiah, Cosmopolitism. Etica într-o lume a strainilor (Cosmopolitanism. Ethics in a World of Strangers) • p. 249
Catalin Vasile Bobb Leon Volovici, De la Iasi la Ierusalim si inapoi (From Iasi to Jerusalem and Back) • p. 253
Iulia Grad Michael Zank, New Perspectives on Martin Buber • p. 255
JSRI volume 6, no. 18, Winter 2007 - Essays in Honor of Moshe Idel
Metafora cartii. Perceptia cartii ebraice în comunitatile nord transilvanene. Secolele XIX – XX (The Metaphor of the Book. The Hebrew Book and Its Perception in the Jewish Communities of North Transylvania. The 19th and 20th Centuries) • p. 218
Claudiu Herteliu Statistical Indicators System regarding Religious Phenomena • p. 115
Miscellanea
Leonard Swidler Club modernity for reluctant believers • p. 132
SCIRI Conferences
Michael Shafir Conu’ Shafirida fată cu reactiunea: Joseph de Maistre sau Fandacsia Descătusată (Master Shafirida Stands Up to Reaction: Joseph De Maistre or Unleashing Unreason) • p. 147
Book Reviews
Vianu Muresan Delia Popa - Emmanuel Levinas, Les aventures de l’economie subjective et son ouverture a l’alterite Emmanuel Levinas (The adventures of the subjective economy and its opening towards alterity) • p. 159
Mihaela Paraschivescu Nicu Gavrilută - România în Starea Bardo: publicistică si dialoguri culturale (Romania in the Bardo State: Journalistic Writings and Cultural Dialogs) • p. 169
Cătălin Vasile Bobb Adrian-Paul Iliescu - Anatomia Răului Politic (Anatomy of the Political Evil) • p. 168
Sandu Frunză Ron Geaves - Religious Studies, Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Chrisrianity, Islam • p. 171
Iulia Grad Sebastian Sebu, Monica Opris, Dorin Opris - Metodica predării religiei (Methodology of Teaching Religion) • p. 174
Mihaela Frunză Christopher Partridge - The Re-Enchantment of the West. Volume II. Alternative Spiritualities, Sacralization, Popular Culture, and Occulture • p. 176
Ion Cordoneanu Mircea Eliade si semnificatia antropologica a simbolismului religios (Mircea Eliade and the anthropological signification of religious symbolism) • 25
Nicu Gavriluta Actualitatea paradigmei Eliade-Culianu în interpretarea mitologiilor contemporane (The actuality of the Eliade-Culianu paradigm within the contemporary mythological interpretations) • 31
RELIGION, CULTURE, IDEOLOGY
Sorin Gog The construction of the religious space in post-socialist Romania • 37
Anton Carpinschi The culture of acknowledgement and the horizons of truth • 54 Michael S. Jones Culture as Religion and Religion as Culture in the Philosophy of Lucian Blaga • 66
MISCELLANEEA
Elvira Groza Scrisorile catre un provincial ale lui Mircea Eliade. Raspunsul unui provincial din viitor (Mircea Eliade’s Letters for a Provincial. The Answer from a Provincial from the Future) • 88
David Pensgard Yogacara Buddhism: a sympathetic description and suggestion for use in Western theology and philosophy of religion • 94
BOOK REVIEWS
Sandu Frunza Ceea ce ne uneste: istorii, biografii, idei. Sorin Antohi în dialog cu Moshe Idel (Those things that bind us: histories, biographies, ideas. Sorin Antohi in dialogue with Moshe Idel) • 104
Andrei-Dragos Giulea Bradford F. Hinze si Irfan A. Omar (eds.) Heirs of Abraham. The Future of Muslim, Jewish, and Christian Relations • 107
Rodica Albu C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man • 110
Mihaela Frunza Eniko Magyari-Vincze, Excluderea sociala la intersectia dintre gen, etnicitate si clasa. O privire din perspectiva sanatatii reproducerii la femeile Rome (Social Exclusion at the Crossroads of Gender, Ethnicity and Class. A View through Romani Women’s Reproductive Health) • 117
What is the Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies ? J.S.R.I. is an international on-line publication of SCIRI (the Seminar for the Interdisciplinary Research of Religions and Ideologies) and SACRI (the Academic Society for the Research of Religions and Ideologies). It is a peer-review academic publication intended for professors and young researchers interested in the study of religions and ideologies.
J.S.R.I. encourages interdisciplinary approaches engaging the following domains: religious studies, philosophy of religions, ethics, political philosophy and political science, anthropology, sociology, interreligious dialogue and communications theory. All articles must explore the religious dimension of the issues covered.
J.S.R.I. is an open-access journal published on the internet, with three issues per year. The languages in which materials can be published are English and Romanian.
JSRI does not provide authors with offprints of published materials, but we will notify you by email when your manuscript is published online
Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies is the first Romanian journal included in Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Current Contents: Arts & Humanities, ISI databases
What kind of material can be published ? Articles (6000-10000 words) The Conferences of S.C.I.R.I. Book Reviews (1500-2000 words)
Contributions, books for review, and other editorial correspondence should be sent to the Editor:
s_c_i_r_i at yahoo dot com
Note: J.S.R.I. does not pay royalties. Copyright is warranted by national and international laws.
Author Guidelines
Schedule
From 2002 through 2007, JSRI appeared on April 30th, August 30th and December 30th.
Beginning in 2008, JSRI appears on the following dates:
February 25th (deadline on 1st of November)
June 25th (deadline on 1st of April)
November 25th (deadline on 1st of August)
Call for Papers
Special issue: Philosophical and Ideological Approaches in Bioethics
All articles must explore the religious dimension of the issues covered; however, it is not in the intention of the editors to publish theological approaches of the subject matter. Deadline for sending materials: November 1, 2008
Special issue: Religion and Politics in Romania after 1989 Deadline for sending materials: March 1, 2009
Manuscripts
Articles
Articles submitted for publication normally range from 6000 to 10,000 words, preferably written in English. We also publish a small number of articles written in Romanian. Articles must not have been previously published or be pending publication elsewhere.
Texts must be accompanied by:
- an abstract (10 lines),
- up to 10 key words,
- the author's biographical information (professional title, didactic position, institutional affiliation, contact information, and email address),
- a list of the author's main publications (1/2 page),
- a digital photo in .jpeg or .jpg format (optional).
Materials can be sent via e-mail, as an attachment, formatted as Microsoft Word 7.0, 6.0, or RTF, to s_c_i_r_i at yahoo dot com The text should use the Times New Roman font, 12 pt, and a pagination of 1,5 lines.
The editors advise you to consult with a native English speaker concerning the fluency of your text before sending it.
Bibliographic references should be formatted according to the Chicago Manual of Style. Please do not send the text to JSRI before consulting the Chicago Manual of Style and editing the text, the endnotes and the references accordingly. See the examples of Chicago-Style Citation at this link.
Book Reviews
Texts should range from 1500 to 2000 words.
Texts must be accompanied by:
- up to 10 key words,
- the author's biographical information (professional title, didactic position, institutional affiliation, contact information, and email address),
- a list of the author's main publications (1/2 page),
- a digital photo of the book cover in .jpeg or .jpg format
Notes
1. The author assumes all responsibility for the ideas expressed in the material published. 2. The authors have the obligation to respect all rules concerning the law governing copyright. 3. All texts are reviewed by two experts. The review process is expected to take 2-3 months or more in some cases. The editors may ask for revision and may require reformatting of accepted manuscripts. 4. Due to the high volume of manuscripts being submitted we do not send editorial comments for unpublished texts unless we hold a paper longer than eight months.
Rights retained by JSRI authors
- JSRI holds the copyright of all published materials. However, authors have the right to use all or part of their texts and abstracts for their own personal use and for their teaching purposes. - Authors have the right to use all or part of the text and abstract, in the preparation of derivative works, extension of the article into book-length or in other works, and the right to include the article in full or in part in a thesis or dissertation or books. Authors are kindly asked to provide acknowledgement of the original publication in JSRI, including the title of the article, the journal name, volume, issue number, page numbers, and year of publication. - For use in non-commercial situations there is no need for authors to apply for written permission from JSRI in advance.
Editorial board
Editor:
Sandu Frunza, Babes-Bolyai University
Executive-editors :
Michael Jones, Liberty University, USA
Mihaela Frunza, BBU
Members:
Catalin Vasile BOBB, Department of Systematic Philosophy, BBU
Dan CHIRIBUCA, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, BBU
Adrian COSTACHE, Faculty of History and Philosophy, BBU
Diana COTRAU, Faculty of Letters, BBU
Horatiu CRISAN, Researcher, Library of Academy
Codruta CUCEU, Researcher, Gh. Barit Institute
Nicu GAVRILUTA, Al. I Cuza University, Iasi
Iulia GRAD, Faculty of History and Philosophy, BBU
Peter ISTVAN, Faculty of Reformed Theology, BBU
Mihaela PARASCHIVESCU, University of Bucharest
Liviu POP, BBU
Andreia SCHINDLER, Al. I Cuza University, Iasi
Theodora-Eliza VACARESCU, Bucharest University
Michael ZANK, Boston University
Advisory Board
Aziz AL-AZMEH, CEU Budapest
Ioan BIRIS, West University Timisoara
Recep BOZTEMUR, Middle-East Technical University of Ankara
Ioan CHIRILA, Faculty of Orthodox Theology, BBU
Aurel CODOBAN, Department of Systematic Philosophy, BBU
Teodor DIMA, Al. I Cuza University, Iasi
Michael FINKENTHAL, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Linda FISHER, Department of Gender Studies, CEU Budapest
Mircea FLONTA, University of Bucharest
Warren ZEV HARVEY, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ladislau GYEMANT, Faculty of European Studies, BBU
Moshe IDEL, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Adrian-Paul ILIESCU, University of Bucharest
Marius JUCAN, Faculty of European Studies, BBU
Boris KAPUSTIN, Yale University and Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences
Ioan-Vasile LEB, Faculty of Orthodox Theology, BBU
Mircea MICLEA, Faculty of Psychology, BBU
Camil MURESANU, Institute of History, Romanian Academy
Dorothy NOYES, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA
Dan RATIU, Department of Systematic Philosophy, BBU
Traian ROTARIU, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, BBU
Johannes Michael SCHNARRER, University of Karlsburg
Leonard SWIDLER, Temple University, USA
VERESS Carol, Department of Systematic Philosophy, BBU
Leon VOLOVICI, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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