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15 years of scholarship ARCH^VS STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS WW,, ^"^^£2 Romanian Association for the History of Religions www.rahr.ro Institute for the History of Religions Romanian Academy, Bucharest www.ihr-acad.ro ARCILEVS Etudes d'Histoire des Religions \ Studies in the History of Religions XV (2011), fasc. 1-2 Norman GlRARDOT <& Bryan RENNIE (Guest Editors) I Reimagining \ Revalorising Mircea Eliade CONTENTS 3 CONSPECTVS SIGLORVM 5 Norman GlRARDOT Lehigh University, Bethlehem, ¥s\ INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL THEMATIC ISSUE ON REMEMBERING | REIMAGINING | REVALORIZING MIRCEA ELIADE 7 Mircea ELIADE THE BRIDGE (translated by Mac Linscott Ricketts) 15 Mac Linscott RICKETTS Uouisburg College, NC HOW the bridge WAS WRITTEN 37 AliShehzadZAIDI State University of New York, Canton THE AMBIGUITY OF MIRACLE IN ELIADE'S "A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD PHOTOGRAPH" 41 I Reimagining \ Bryan RENNIE Westminster College, New Wilmington, ¥s\ FACT AND INTERPRETATION: sui generis RELIGION, EXPERIENCE, ASCRIPTION, AND ART 51 4 ARCEL£VSXV(2011) Teuvo LAITILA University of lias tern Finland, Joensuu MIRCEA ELIADE, AUTHENTIC BEING, AND DIALOGICAL MAPPING OF LIVED RELIGIOSITY 75 Jeremy BILES DePaul University j School of the s\rt Institute, Chicago GAMBLING WITH ELIADE: LAS VEGAS AND THE DISASTER OF THE SACRED 93 I Revalorising \ Lindsay JONES The Ohio State University REVALORIZING MIRCEA ELIADE'S NOTION OF REVALORIZATION: REFLECTIONS ON THE PRESENT-DAY RE-USES OF MESOAMERICA'S PRE-COLUMBIAN SITES AND ARCHITECTURE 119 Jess HOLLENBACK University of Wisconsin-Fa Crosse WHAT'S WRONG WITH SYMBOLS? REVISITING MIRCEA ELIADE IN THE 21A CENTURY 161 Jeffrey J. KRIPAL BJce University THE FUTURE HUMAN: MIRCEA ELIADE AND THE FANTASTIC MUTANT 187 ABSTRACTS 209 THE CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS VOLUME 213 XV (2011), fasc. 3 STVDIA Barbara Baert, Ionut A. Tudorie, Gabriel H. Decuble, Daniel Benga, Silviu Lupascu, Bogdan Neagota, Ana-Stanca Tabarasi-Hoffmann 221 MISCELLANEA Ionut Daniel BAncilA, Daniela DumbravA, E. Ciurtin Scientific Report of the Institute for the History of Religions (2011) BBLIOGRAPHICA Reviews by I. D. BAncilA, D. Benga, E. Ciurtin, B. Neagota, A. Pirtea Abstracts | Contributors | Contents XV (2011), fasc. 4 Index of ARCILEVS — Volumes 1 (1997) to 15 (2011). ARCILEVS Etudes d'Histoire des Religions \ Studies in the History of Religions XV (2011), fasc. 3 Barbara baert Catholic University of Leaven (KUL) the johannesschussel as andachtsbild: the gaze, the medium and the senses 221 Ionut a. tudorie Facultatea de Teologie Ortodoxa, Universitatea din Bucuresti vechi si nou In ceremonialul Incoronarii Imparatilor bizantini din secolul al xiii-lea 259 Contributions offered by the Postdoctoral Fellows of the Institute for the History of Religions in Bucharest (2010-2012) Daniel benga Universitatea din Bucuresti / IHR, Bucuresti didascalia apostolorum caizvor al traditiilor si al ethosului crestin sirian din secolul al iii-lea. o introducere metodologica 309 Silviu lupascu Universite du « Bas Danube», Galati / IHR, Bucarest le sceau de la prophetie : connexions entre le christianisme et l'islam sous la dynastie des abbasides 3 25 Bogdan neagota Universita Babes-Bolyai, Cluj-Hapoca / IHR, Bucharest ritualitA iniziatica e cerimonializzazione calendaristica nelle feste diprimavera in transilvania: l'uomo verde. prospettive etno-antropologiche e storico-religiose 349 Ana-Staaca tabarasi-hoffmann Universitat Mainz /IHR, Bukarest „wer sich selbst kennt, der weib, auf welche summe er lautet". s. kierkegaards monetaren diskurs uber das erkennen der religiosen wahrheit 379 590 ARCREVS XV (2011), fasc. 3 Gabriel H. DECUBLE University of Bucharest / IHR, Bucharest MIXING UP THE HOLY WORD. TATIAN'S MAGNIFICENT FAILURE AS A "HARMONIC EVANGELIST" IN TERMS OF RELIGIOUS COMMUNICATION 409 MISCELLANEA Ionut Daniel BANCILA Seminarfur Kirchengeschichte, Humboldt Universitdt %u Berlin NEUE ANSATZE IN DER CHRISTENTUMSGESCHICHTE (I) 433 Christoph MARKSCHIES, Die Gnosis, Miinchen: C.H. Beck, 3201 0 | Christoph MARKSCHIES, Kaiserzeitliche christliche Theologie unci ihre Institutionen. Prolegomena zu einer Geschichte der antiken christlichen Theologie, Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2007, 2009 | Christoph MARKSCHIES, Hubert WOLF (Hg.), Erinnerungsorte cles Christentums, unter Mitarbeit von Barbara SchOLER, Miinchen: C.H. Beck, 2010. Daniela DUMBRAVA Universita "Al I. Cu^a", last IL CARTEGGIO UGO BIANCHI & IOAN PETRU CULIANU: FONTE PER LA STORIOGRAFIAITALIANA DELLA STORIA DELLE RELIGIONI 451 E. CIURTIN Institute for the History of Religions, Romanian Academy, Bucharest HANDEL'S messiah AS HISTORY OF RELIGIONS: WHY ev'ry valley shall be exalted 471 SCIENTIFIC REPORTS - INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS, ROMANIAN ACADEMY, JANUARY-DECEMBER 2011 (III) Dan Berindei, E. Ciurtin, Andrei Oisteanu, Mihaela Timus, Mirel Banica, and the Postdoctoral Fellows of the Institute (2010-2012) 495 BIBLIOGRAPHICA 507 Andrei Ol§teanu, Narcotice in cultura romdnd: istorie, religie si literatura, Iasi- Bucuresti: Polirom, 2010, ed. a Il-a, 2011 (E. Ciurtin); Guy G. Stroumsa, A New Science: the Discovery of Religion in the Age of Reason, Cambridge, MA- London: Harvard University Press, 2010 (E. Ciurtin); Edwin K. broadhead, Jewish Ways of Following Jesus. Redrawing the Religious Map of Antiquity, Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010 {Ionut Daniel Bancild); Moshe IDEL, Ben: Sonship and Jewish Mysticism, London-New York: Continuum, 2007 - Moshe IDEL, Fiul lui Dumnezeu si mistica evreiascd, Iasi-Bucuresti: Polirom, 2010 {Adrian Pirtea); Emanuela TlMOTIN, Descdntecele manuscrise romanesti (secolele al XVII-lea - al XVIII-lea). Edijie critica, studii lingvistice si filologice, Bucuresti, Editura Academiei Romane, 2010 (Bogdan Neagota); Bogdan Gabriel bucur, Angelomorphic Pneumatology. Clement of Alexandria and Other Early Christian Witnesses, Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2009 {Daniel Benga); Charles ALLEN, The Buddha and Dr Fiihrer: An Archaeological Scandal, New Delhi: Penguin, 2010 [2008] (E. Ciurtin). ARCIL^VS XV (2011), fasc. 4 INDEX I-XV (1997-2011) 591 abstracts 547 the contributors to this volume 553 XV (2011), fasc. 4 INDEX OF ARCILEVS. Studii de istorie a religiilor I Etudes d'Histoire des Religions | Studies in the History of Religions | I-XV (1997-2011) 21 volumes, 6,570 pages archevs i-xv (1997-2011) index of articles index of reviews & notices sommaire / contents 559 561 577 589