My
name is Nonka Bogomilova
Todorova.
I
was born at 10.08.1952 in town of Kyustendil,
Bulgaria.
Nationality: Bulgarian
Office
address: Institute for Philosophical Research; 6, Blvd. P.Evtimii:
E-mail: nonka35@hotmail.com
Fields
of research interests:
- Philosophical Anthropology;
Anthropology of Religion ; Identities; Religion and
Politics in the Balkan Countries
Degrees
and academic ranks:
-
Institute for Philosophical Research – Dr.Habil, January 1997 ; “ Cultural Sacralization of Power”
- Institute for Philosophical
Research – Ph.D., January,
1984;”Dialectics of Religious and Aesthetic Consciousness”
-
-
December 2003 –
Chairman of “Philosophical
Anthropology” Department of the IFR
-
January 2004 – Editor
in Chief of “Philosophical Alternatives”
magazine
- January
1997 – Senior Research Associate at the Dept. of Anthropology of the Institute
for Philosophical Research
- November 1984 – December
1996: Research Associate at the same
Institute
- November 1974 – October 1984
– Expert at the same Institute
Lecturer
experience:
- 1995 – Part-time lecturer at
the New Bulgarian University, Dept. of Political Studies and Dept. of the History of Europe and the
Balkans; Course title “Philosophy of
History. Anthropological vision”
-
2001- 2003: Part time lecturer at the
Participation
in founded Research projects:
Individual:
“ The Eastern Orthodoxy: Politics and Mentality” –
“Democratic Structuring of
Church-State Relations in
Group:
“The New Political Elite” – Ministry of
Science and Education of R. of
“Identities” –
“The Universal and the
National in the Bulgarian Culture” -
Awards, scholarly or other
distinctions::
Nomination for the “Jean Scott L’Erigene”
Prize of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research - Geneve, on “ Cultural
Origins of Diffårences in Development”
– April, 1996
Grant of Ford
Professional
membership:
- Bulgarian
-
International Society for the Sociology of Religion
/ISSR/
-
International Society for the Scientific Study of
Religion in Central and
Specializations
abroad:
-
Interuniversity course “The Future of Religion” at
the Interuniversity Center in Dubrovnik,
Croatia – 1990-2001 / April, 20-30/
-
First and Second
“Summer School on the Religions in
Command of foreign languages:
- English – excellent
- French - good
- Russian –
excellent
Books:
Individual:
Longing
for the Absolute,
The
Religion – Spirit and Institution,
Vitality
forthcoming
2005, , ed. “Prof. M.Drinov “ Academic Publishing
House
Religion, Law, Politics in
the Balkans,
Group:
Identities /co-author with A.Krasteva, I. Katzarski, P.Makariev /,
The Universal and the National
in the Bulgarian Culture /co-author with A. Krasteva,
N. Dimitrova,
Papers:
Religion between
the Convicting and Understanding Mind. – in: Philosophical Alternatives N2, 1993
What is the Religion. – in: Philosophical
Research, v.3,
Religion and Nation, in:
Philosophical Alternatives, 1994, N 4 / Sofia
The New Political Elite in Bulgaria in: The New Political Elite, Sofia,
1994,
ed. SOPHILOS
Religion:
Way of Use, in: East – East, 1995, N 16-17 /
Religion, in: Encyclopedic
Dictionary of Sociology,
Le
role de la religion dans la Bulgarie
contemporaine, in: La Bulgarie:
une transition menacee,
EDES,
L’Ortodossia in Bulgaria oggi. Atese e realta in: Religioni e Societa,N25, 1996 , Torino, / in
Italian/
Utopia
and Power, in: Philosophical Alternatives, N1, 1997
The Religion and the Politics:
Contacts and Conflicts. – in: Philosophical
Alternatives N3, 1997
The Sacred, the
Time and the Everyday Consciousness in Eastern Europe, in: Il tempo a il sacro nelle societa
post-industriali, Milano,
1997 , ed. A.Nesti, P.De
Marco, A. Iacopozzi /in English/
The Nationalization of Christianity and the Bulgarian
Problem, in: Gradina, 1997, N12, Nis, R. of
The Incarnated
Absolute: Philosophical and Dogmatic Ideas. – in: Religion, Culture, Humanism.
Orthodoxy and the National Question, in: The Society and the Sacred,
1997, N9, Kiev, /in Ukrainian/
Religion in
Contemporary
Religion
und Sozialer Wandel in Bulgarien, in: Religioser Wandel in den postkommunistischen
Landern Ost-und Mitteleuropas, Ergon,
The
Democracy in the Bulgarian Political Tradition, in: The Social Problems of
the Transition, V.Turnovo, 1998
Religion
and the Cultural-historical Archetypes in: Facta Universitatis, vol.2,
N6,1999, /University of Nis, R.of Yugoslavia, in English/
Religion, Nation, Civilization, in: The Religion
and the Church in
The Political-ethnic
Particularization of Christianity at the End of the Millennium, in: Christianity, Society, Politics;
Religion and the Anthropological Antinomies. –in: The
Anthropological Research, v.2, Sofia, 2000 /ed. New
Our Philosophy: Vitality or
Mortality, in: Philosophical Alternatives, N1-2, 2002
The Interdependent World:
Two Views, in: The Paradoxes of the Global World,
Bulgarishe
Orthodoxie nach der “Wende”, in: Glaube in der 2.Welt,
2002 /30, N2 / Zurich, in German/
The Religion of the Social
Outcast /Problems of the Bulgarian Romani Religion/. – in: The Religion of the Roma people, YUNIR,
Eastern Orthodoxy: The New Age and the Old Myths. – in: Eastern Orthodoxy and the Contemporary
The Religious “Revival” in
the Post-communist Countries”., in: Teme, N3, 2003,
The Legal Status of the New Religious Movements in
Religion and the Human
Relationships, in: The Philosophy and the Eastern Orthodoxy, Blagoevgrad,
2004
The Religion and the Global Changes in
Bulgaria, in:
Reflections on the
Contemporary Religious “Revival” - reprint, in: Religion in
Some Present-day Problems of State-Church Relationships in
The Legal Status of the
Religious Communities in
State and Church
Relationships in Serbia and Montenegro, Macedonia, and Bulgaria – Political and
Legal Developments, in: Religion and Politics, ed.of
the
The Humane Soul and the
Human Society in the Global World Religions, in: Religion and Globalization,YUNIR,
Participations and Presentations of Papers at the International Conferences,
Congresses, etc.
Annual Meeting of the Society for the
Scientific Study of Religion /SSSR/ -
XXII International Conference of the
International Society for the Sociology of Religion /ISSR/
–
Orthodoxy and the European Culture
–
The Nationalism and the Collective Identity
–
The Time and the Sacred in the Postindustrial
Societies – Second Summer School on the Religions in
Religion, Democracy, Youth
–
Saint John Rilski
and the Culture of the Middle Age
The Religion and the Church in
Ethnic, Religious and Confessional
Relationships on the Balkans – YUNIR,
XXIV Conference of the International Society
for the Sociology of Religion –
Eastern Orthodoxy and the European
Metaphysics -
Rila Monastery, 1997,
33 World Congress of the International
Institute of Sociology –
Church-State Relations in Central and Eastern
Religion and Civil Society / International
Round Table/–
The Annual Meeting of the Association for the
Scientific Study of Religion –
Islam and the Human Rights in the
Post-communist Countries –
Annual Meeting of the Association for the
Sociology of Religion /ASR/ - 2000,
Eastern Orthodoxy and the Contemporary
The Changing Balkans: the Role of Historical
Myths – 2002,
Roma Religious Culture
– 2003,
Challenges Facing Philosophy in the United
International Conference “Religion in
Multi-confessional and Multiethnic Society” – University in
International conference “Religion and Politics” –
International Conference “Religion and Globalization” in