Religion and Politics in the 21st Century ― Global and Local Reflections

Vasile Boari is Professor at the Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences of Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj and director of the Centre for Political Analysis and of the Institute for Global Studies of Babes-Bolyai University. He is the author of Dialectica raportului constiinta morala-constiinta politica (The dialectic of the relation moral conscience-political conscience - 1987), Filosofia si conditia morala a cetatii (Philosophy and the moral condition of the city - 1991), Noua Europa in cautarea identitatii (The New Europe in search for its identity - 2009), and Filosofie si politica (Philosophy and Politics - 2009). Natalia Vlas is a Researcher at the Centre for Political Analysis of Babes-Bolyai University. She received her PhD in International Relations and European Studies in 2008. She is the author of Religia si globalizarea la inceputul secolului XXI (Religion and Globalization at the Beginning of the 21st Century (2008)) and has co-edited several collective volumes, such as Studii Politice, Volume 2 (2007), Cine sunt romanii? Perspective asupra identitatii nationale (2009), Romania dupa douazeci de ani, Volumes 1 and 2 (2010, 2011), Intelectualii si puterea (2011), and Twenty years After: A Romanian Story (forthcoming). She is currently working on a postdoctoral project on political theologies and global order. Her main research interests include ethics, political theology, religion in international relations, and globalization.