INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON HUMANISTIC IDEOLOGY

Studies into the Nature and Origin of Humanistic Ideas

Vol. 1 No. 2 Autumn - Winter 2008

T OPI C S : HI ST ORI CI SM AND

M ULTI CULT URALI SM

Edited by Mihaela GLIGOR

CLUJ UNIVERSITY PRESS

2008
 CONTENTS

Editorial
Mihaela GLIGOR:
Historicism and Multiculturalism. The problem ………………..……... 7

The Topics
Topics: Historicism and Multiculturalism

Mac Linscott RICKETTS:

Mircea Eliade and the Terror of History. Anti-Historicism and the
History of Religion…………………….....……………………...……... 15
Alin FUMURESCU:
Two Histories of Compromise……………………………………… 37
Maitrayee CHAUDHURI:
Multiculturalism. The Story from an Indian Point of View………….… 67
Sherry SABBARWAL:
Whither Multiculturalism? A View from India ……………………….… 91
Liviu ANTONESEI:
Modernity and Modernization from an Intercultural Perspective……... 97
Itai IVTZAN:
Self Actualisation: For Individualistic Cultures Only?.....….……...…113
Răzvan TATU:
Ex Oriente Lux?
Georgius of Hungaria and his Treaty on the Beliefs and Customs of
the Turks. Notes on an Apocalyptic Perception of the Other …………141

Reviews

Santosh Kr. SINGH:

Rudolph C. Heredia, Changing Gods: Rethinking Conversion in India,
Penguin Books, 2007, ISBN: 0143101900 ……………………………………. 153
Mac Linscott RICKETTS:
Sheila Greene Davaney, Historicism: The Once and Future Challenge to
Theology. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2006. ISBN 0-8006-3219-2 …………..155
Santosh Kr. SINGH:
Patterns of Middle-Class Consumption in India and China, Edited by
Christopher Jaffrelot and Peter Van der Veer, Sage, New Delhi, 2008, ISBN:
9780761936237 ………………………………………………………………....162

Collaborators………………………………………………………….…….. 165