Lucian Turcescu

Lucian Turcescu (b. Piteşti, Romania, in 1966), is a professor of theology at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.

He emigrated to Canada in 1992, and obtained his Ph.D. in theology from the University of Toronto in 1999. Turcescu taught for six years at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, where he became an Associate Professor and Chair of the Religious Studies Department. In 2005, he was hired as an Associate Professor in the Department of Theological Studies at Concordia University.

Turcescu has done research and published in several areas, including religion and politics in post-communist Romania, early Christianity, and ecumenism. Some of his research was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. He authored or co-authored over two dozens peer-reviewed articles which have been published in journals such as "Communist and Post-Communist Studies", "Europe-Asia Studies", "East European Politics and Societies", "Problems of Post-Communism", "Religion, State and Society", "Modern Theology", "Journal of Ecumenical Studies", and "Vigiliae Christianae".

He organized international colloquia on “Religion and Politics in Eastern Europe” (Iaşi, Romania, 2005) [http://www.upelsinka.com/English/romania/main.htm] and on “The Reception and Interpretation of the Bible in Late Antiquity” (Concordia University, 2006). [http://theology.concordia.ca/2006colloquium/] He is President of the Canadian Society of Patristic Studies [http://www.ccsr.ca/csps] (2004-2008), and an Associate Editor of the "Journal of Ecumenical Studies" since 2004.

Turcescu served as a member of the Board of Directors, Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion [http://www.ccsr.ca] , and the Corporation’s combined program director (1999-2002). He also helped co-found and co-direct (2002-2005) the Centre for Post-communist Studies [http://www.stfx.ca/pinstitutes/cpcs] at St. Francis Xavier University.

Publications

"Books:"
* Lorenzo DiTommaso and Lucian Turcescu, editors, "The Reception and Interpretation of the Bible in Late Antiquity: Proceedings of the Montreal Colloquium in Honour of Charles Kannengiesser, 11-13 October 2006", Leiden: Brill, 2008. ISBN 978 90 04 16715 5.
* Lavinia Stan and Lucian Turcescu, "Religion and Politics in Post-communist Romania", Oxford University Press, 2007. ISBN 0195308530
* Lucian Turcescu, editor, "Dumitru Stăniloae: tradition and modernity in theology", Iași, Romania; Palm Beach, Fla.: Center for Romanian Studies, 2002. ISBN 9739432298
* Lucian Turcescu, "Gregory of Nyssa and the Concept of Divine Persons", Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN 0195174259

"Chapters:"
* Lavinia Stan and Lucian Turcescu, "The Romanian Greek Catholic Church after 1989," in Stephanie Mahieu, ed., "Churches In-Between: Greek Catholic Churches in Post-Socialist Europe" (Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2007).
* Lavinia Stan and Lucian Turcescu, "Secularization or 'Twin Tolerations'? Redefining Church-State Relations in Post-Communism," in "Religion and Politics in Multicultural Europe", ed. by Alar Kilp (in press).
* Lavinia Stan and Lucian Turcescu, "Orthodoxy and Politics," in "Religion, State, Society and Interreligious Dialogue after Communism", ed. by Ines Murzaku (Bologna: University of Bologna Press, in press).

"Refereed Articles:"
* Lavinia Stan and Lucian Turcescu, "The Devil's Confessors: Priests, Communists, Spies, and Informers," "East European Politics and Societies", 19 (2005), no. 4, 655-685. DOI|10.1177/0888325404272454
* Lavinia Stan and Lucian Turcescu, "Pulpits, Ballots and Party Cards: Religion and Elections in Romania," "Religion, State and Society", 33, no. 4 (December 2005), pp. 347-366.
* Lavinia Stan and Lucian Turcescu, "Religious Education in Romania," "Communist and Post-Communist Studies", 38, no. 3 (September 2005), pp. 381-401.
* Lavinia Stan and Lucian Turcescu, "Religion, Politics and Sexuality in Romania," "Europe-Asia Studies", 57, no. 2 (March 2005), pp. 291-310.
* Lavinia Stan and Lucian Turcescu, "Politicians, Intellectuals and Academic Integrity in Romania," "Problems of Post-Communism", 51, no. 4 (July/August 2004), pp. 12-24.
* Lavinia Stan and Lucian Turcescu, "Church-state Conflict in the Republic of Moldova: The Bessarabian Metropolitanate," "Communist and Post-Communist Studies", 36, no. 4 (December 2003), pp. 443-465.
* Lavinia Stan and Lucian Turcescu, "The Romanian Orthodox Church and Post-Communist Democratization," "Europe-Asia Studies", 58, no. 2 (2002), pp. 1467-1488. Republished in "East European Perspectives", 3, no. 4 (22 February 2001), and 3, no. 5 (7 March 2001).
* Lavinia Stan and Lucian Turcescu, "Politics, national symbols and the Romanian Orthodox Cathedral," "Europe-Asia Studies", 8 (2006), no. 7, 1119-1139. OCLC|90228854

"Articles in Eastern European Journals and Newspapers:"
* Lucian Turcescu and Lavinia Stan, "Inainte de alegerile patriarhale - O analiza," "Adevarul Literar si Artistic" (12 September 2007).
* Lavinia Stan and Lucian Turcescu, "Religion, Parties and Elections in Post-Communist Romania," "Sfera politicii", nos. 123-124 (October 2006), pp. 15-22.
* Lavinia Stan and Lucian Turcescu, "Galceava inteleptilor cu standardele universitare," "22", 26 May-1 June 2006.

External links

* [http://web2.concordia.ca/facstaff/turcescu/welcome.html official Faculty website at Concordia]
* [http://www.concordia.ca Concordia University]