Dan Chițoiu Abstract Traditions (spiritual or not) are seen as vital for preserving cultural identity in a particular area, as much as personal and communitarian one. Yet the meaning of Tradition is changing because of human society’s continuous evolution. This fact constitutes a paradox and a provocation: preserving traditions is a creative act, this being … [Read more…]
Varghese Manimala Abstract The title that we have chosen may look a little odd, but what we aim at is to look for new paradigms in the understanding of secularism and spirituality. There seems to be an urgent need to understand spirituality from different angles altogether. It is not a break with … [Read more…]
Rolando Gripaldo Abstract This paper attempts to understand the relationships among the various elements of the human person: body, mind, spirit, soul, ego, consciousness, and self as viewed from the Western philosophical tradition. The paper argues that in order to know the soul, one should know the self because it is the … [Read more…]
Dan Chițoiu Abstract The spiritual experience is, somehow, closer to what is proper to the contemporary scientific experiment: both are ways of tryout. A follower of such path needs to meet the requirements comparable with those of scientific experiment (in spirituality we can name it “experience”): rules and criteria of verification. Yet the … [Read more…]
Bogdana Todorova Abstract Identity in our multicultural world is one of the major problems of contemporary man. There are not cultures totally isolated from the others. Social groups and individuals are directly (through contacts with others) and indirectly (through the media, market products, ideologies and law systems) confronted with many problems. And the modern … [Read more…]