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Contemporary Populism
The fundamental question uniting the contributions to this volume is: what exactly is populism? This is certainly not a new question, as a large amount of literature has focused on this topic for more than half a century. As little conceptual consensus has been reached so far, this book aims to reduce the level of abstraction. To this end, it approaches the populist phenomenon from a broader theoretical and empirical perspective, making reference to its developments on several continents. The book is divided into two parts: the first is theoretical and discusses various perspectives on populism, while the second is empirical and emphasises the diversity of the forms populism has embraced thr...
Encounter Between Eastern Orthodoxy and Radical Orthodoxy
This book presents the first debate between the contemporary movement Radical Orthodoxy and Eastern Orthodox theologians. Leading international scholars offer new insights and reflections on a wide range of contemporary issues from a specifically theological and philosophical perspective. The ancient notion of divine Wisdom (Sophia) serves as a common point of reference in this encounter. Both Radical and Eastern Orthodoxy agree that the transfiguration of the world through the Word is at the very centre of the Christian faith. The book explores how this process of transformation can be envisaged with regard to epistemological, ontological, aesthetical, ecclesiological and political questions. Contributors to this volume include Rowan Williams, John Milbank, Antoine Arjakovsky, Michael Northcott, Nicholas Loudovikos, Andrew Louth and Catherine Pickstock.
Religious Studies
Drawing on recent developments in the comparative study of religion, this book explores the trends of the past sixty years from a global perspective. Each of the ten chapters covers the study of religion in a different region of the world, from Europe and the Americas to Asia and the Far East. Topics covered include: local background to the study of religions formation of religious studies in the region important thinkers and writings institutions interregional diversity and interregional connections emerging issues. This book is a major contribution to the field of religious studies and a valuable reference for scholars, researchers and graduate students.
Credința ca filosofie
„Cartea lui Nicolae Turcan, construit pe mai multe genuri de text, de la confesiune la studiu, trecând prin articol, este în întregul ei o invitație la credință și gândire în egală măsură și cu egală forță. Fie că se referă la sine («Argumentul Cioran») sau la alții (de pildă, la Mitropolitul Bartolomeu), la Tradiție sau la Crez – autorul ne acceptă drept companioni pe drumul de la ideal la faptă, de la cum gândește la cum trăiește, de la ce înțelege la ce crede. Este un exercițiu tonifiant, deloc crispat, deschis și ferm în același timp, care dă mărturie convingătoare despre o căutare autentică și o întemeiere fără fisuri. Sunt bucuros că seria Theologia Socialis se îmbogățește nu atât cu un titlu, cât mai ales cu o propunere de «filosofie adevărată»”. (Radu Preda)
Saturn's Jews
This book explores the phenomenon of Saturnism, namely the belief that the planet Saturn, the seventh known planet in ancient astrology, was appointed upon the Jews, who celebrated the Sabbath, the seventh day of the Jewish week. Moshe Idel details how the anonymous, late 14th century Sefer Ha-Peliyah was to have disturbing consequences in the Jewish world three centuries later, interweaving luminaries with the cultural, historical, religious, and philosophical concepts of their day, and demonstrating how cultural agents were inadvertently instrumental in the mid-17th-century mass-movement Sabbateanism that led to the conviction that Sabbatai Tzevi was the Messiah. Exploring how the tragic misperception of the Jewish Sabbath by the non-Jewish world led to a linkage of Jews with sorcery in 14th and 15th-century Europe, associating their holy day with the witches' 'Sabbat' gathering, Idel brings this wide-ranging study into the present day with an analysis of 20th-century scholarship and thought influenced by Saturnism, particularly lingering themes related to melancholy in the works of Gershom Scholem and Walter Benjamin.
Începutul suspiciunii
Fenomen constitutiv modernității înseși, suspiciunea față de religie a marcat disputele occidentale dintre rațiune și credință. Analizând ideile de filosofie a religiei prezente la Kant, Hegel și Feuerbach, volumul de față încearcă să ofere, totodată, răspunsuri și comentarii din perspectiva tradiției teologice, în special ortodoxe, chiar având conștiința că aceste răspunsuri pot părea uneori inadecvate spiritului gândirii moderne. Dar, în măsura în care este orgolios și autonom, exercițiul rațiunii nu reprezintă el însuși o insultă și o inadecvare față de adâncurile supraraționale ale credinței?
Byzantium and the Pechenegs
"This book traces 150 years' worth of scholarly interpretations of relations between Byzantium and various North Pontic nomads, with particular attention to how colonialist or national aspirations often triggered, hampered, biased, or otherwise influenced these interpretations. Original in its interdisciplinary approach, Mykola Melnyk's book highlights an overlooked topic: the history of non-historic peoples. Going beyond the well-studied written sources for nomadic history, the author incorporates insights provided by archaeology, linguistics, and the natural sciences, bringing forth promising avenues of research into the subject of nomadic cultures in the medieval world"--
Mihail Sadoveanu
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