table of contents j.s.r.i. no. 8 summer 2004

Studies and Articles

Johannes Michael Schnarrer
The civil society between freedom and democracy - 4

Eduardo Terrén
Rethinking Ties that Bind. Religion and the Rhetoric of Othering - 13

Diana Cotrau
The Culturally Situated Young Romanian Viewer and the New Television - 23

Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach
National Identity: Belonging to a Cultural Group? Belonging to a Polity? - 31

Christine A. James
Huntington or Halliburton?
The Real Clash of Civilizations in American Life - 43

Israel Idalovichi
The Debate over the Historical-Political
Background of a Civic Multicultural Society - 55

Stamatopoulos Dimitrios
The “Return” of Religious and Historiographic Discourse:
Church and Civil Society in Southeastern Europe (19th – 20th centuries) - 64

Kathleen Tobin
Whose Civil Society?:The Politicization of Religion in Transitional Cuba - 76

Anca Covrig
Why Roma do not Declare their Identity –
Careful Decision or Unpremeditated Refusal? - 90

Miscellanea

Catalin Vasile Bobb
Sincretism imaginar
Imaginary Syncretism - 102


Sciri Conferences

Nicu Gavriluta
Clonarea – blasfemie sau binecuvantare?
Structuri mitico-religioase, controverse etice si consecinte sociale
Cloning: Blasfemy or Blessing?
Mythical-religious Structures, Ethical Controversies and Social Consequences - 109

Book Reviews

William Cummings
Review of Islamic Nationhood and Colonial Indonesia:
The umma below the winds by Michael Francis Laffan. - 118

Mihaela Frunza
Mihaela Miroiu
The road towards autonomy. Feminist Political Theories - 120

Sandu Frunza
Andrei Marga
Religia in era globalizarii
Religion in the Era of Globalization - 122

Ana-Elena Ilinca
Mihaela Frunza
Ideology and Feminism - 124

Marius Jucan
Aurel Codoban
Amurgul iubirii
The Twilight of Love - 126

Petru Moldovan
Bryan Rennie (ed.)
Changing Religious Worlds.
The Meaning and End of Mircea Eliade - 130

Luiza Palanciuc
Jean-Claude Milner
Înclinatiile criminale ale Europei democratice
Criminal Inclinations of a Democratic Europe - 134