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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 2 / 2012  
         
  Article:   BOOK REVIEWS – ANDREI OIŞTEANU, NARCOTICS IN ROMANIAN CULTURE. HISTORY, RELIGION AND LITERATURE, ILLUSTRATED EDITION, POLIROM, IAŞI, 2010, 504 P. (EDIŢIA A II-A, REVĂZUTĂ, ADĂUGITĂ ŞI ILUSTRATĂ, 2011, 568 P.).

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  Abstract:  Andrei Oişteanu is a researcher at the Institute of History of Religions from the Romanian Academy and President of the Romanian Association of History of Religions. His studies and essays have been translated and published in the U.S., France, England, Germany, Italy, Austria, Netherlands, Belgium, etc.. His most popular studies are: Inventing the Jew: Anti-Semitic Stereotypes in Romanian and Other Central-East European Culture, Preface by Moshe Idel, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln & London, 2009; Cosmos vs. Chaos: Myth and Magic in Romanian Traditional Culture. A Comparative Approach, The Romanian Cultural Foundation Publishing House, Bucharest, 1999; Religie, politică şi mit. Texte despre Mircea Eliade şi Ioan Petru Culianu, Polirom, Iaşi, 2007 (Religion, politics and myth. Texts about Mircea Eliade and Ioan Petru Culianu). The most recent of his books, Narcotice în cultura română. Istorie, religie şi literatură (Narcotics in Romanian culture. History, religion and literature), was awarded "Book of the Year 2010" award granted by "România Literară" and received also the Special Prize of the Romanian Writers Union in 2011.  
         
     
         
         
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