JSRI volume 6, no. 16, Spring 2007 - Religious Studies As Academic Field & Current Topics in Religious Studies
Contents
Religious Studies As Academic Field
Moshe Idel
Abordări metodologice în studiile religioase (Methodological Approaches in Religious Studies) • p. 5
Yehuda Bar Shalom, Yonatan Glaser
Jewish Pastoral Counseling: a window of opportunity for Israeli Academia • p. 21
Zoltán Ambrus
Applying Alfred Adler’s Principles And Ideas To Religious Studies • p. 30
Ion Cordoneanu
Experience and hermeneutics in the history of religions – a hypothesis on Mircea Eliade’s work • p. 40
Codruta Cuceu, Horatiu Crisan
Birth and Hindering of Religious Studies at the University of Cluj. A Historical Overview • p. 47
Current Topics in Religious Studies
Corin Braga
”Imagination”, ”imaginaire”, ”imaginal”. Three concepts for defining creative fantasy • p. 59
Andreea-Tereza Nitisor
Speaking the Despicable: Blasphemy in Literature • p. 69
Tudor Pitulac, Sebastian Năstută
Choosing to be Stigmatized: Rational calculus in religious conversion • p. 80
Constanta Mihăescu, Miruna Mazurencu Marinescu, Ileana Gabriela Niculescu-Aron
Who is afraid of the big bad “ring”? Gender differences when considering couple formation in a newfangled EU capital • p. 98
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