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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I am passing on news of a new online journal, edited in <st1:City
w:st="on">Moscow</st1:City> by <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Ivar Maksutov</st1:PersonName>:
“<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Moscow</st1:City></st1:place> e-Journal
of Religion,” MeJR for short.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Ivan Strenski<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=1 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial'>Dear colleagues and friends!</span></font></span><font
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<span class=apple-style-span>I’m very glad to announce that the first
peer-reviewed online journal on the Study of Religions in <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Russia</st1:country-region> entitled “<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City> e-Journal of Religion” is finally
opened. The first issue of the MeJR is focused on "Myth an Ritual"
and has four articles: two in Russian and two in English. Alongside with
articles we published very interesting and controversial discussion between two
scholars of religion Timothy Fitzgerald and <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Ivan
Strenski</st1:PersonName> on definition of "religion" and use of
this term in academia. <o:p></o:p></span></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:7.5pt;
font-family:Arial'>The website of the MeJR is - <a
href="http://journal.mro.su/" target="_blank" title="http://journal.mro.su/"><font
color="#2a5db0"><span style='color:#2A5DB0'>http://journal.mro.su/</span></font></a>,
where you can find a lot of different articles and papers.<br>
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On behalf of the editorial board of the MeJR I want to welcome all of you to
read this issue and take part in the upcoming issues of the journal!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:7.5pt;
font-family:Arial'>With this letter I want also to remind you that the Third
online conference on the study of religions is still working and waiting for
you. The online conference has been working for the last six weeks and
since that moment more than 1.500 scholars from more than 50 countries
worldwide have visited the web-site. It’s very interesting. We would
like to invite you to register on the web-site of the conference. Even if not
each of them read all of the articles and make comments to the papers, it’s
need to be noted that each paper was read about 100 times or even more. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>We would like
to invite you to take part in the commenting and discussing papers on the
conference web-site, because on December 1 2009 all papers will be closed from
commenting, though the papers and comments will be left for reading. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>The conference web-site is located here
– <a href="http://www.e-religions.net/2009/" target="_blank"
title="http://www.e-religions.net/2009/"><font color="#2a5db0"><span
style='color:#2A5DB0'>http://www.e-religions.net/2009/</span></font></a>. If
you will have any problems with it or any questions, please feel free to
contact me. We will do our best to help you as soon as it possible.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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Cordially,<br>
<st1:PersonName w:st="on">Ivar Maksutov</st1:PersonName><br>
editor-in-chief of the MeJR<br>
chairman of the Moscow Society for the Study of Religions<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Cordially,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Ivar.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Professor <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Ivan Strenski</st1:PersonName>,<br>
Dept. of Religious Studies,<br>
3013 INTN,<br>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">California</st1:PlaceName>,
<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Riverside</st1:place></st1:City>,<br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Riverside</st1:City>, <st1:State
w:st="on">CA</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode w:st="on">92521</st1:PostalCode></st1:place><br>
951-827-5986 fax 951-827-3324<br>
strenski@ucr.edu<br>
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home:<br>
<st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">3463 Meier Street</st1:address></st1:Street>,<br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:City>, <st1:State
w:st="on">CA</st1:State>, <st1:PostalCode w:st="on">90066-1701</st1:PostalCode></st1:place><br>
(310) 397- 5784 fax 397-5784<br>
echomax1@verizon.net<br>
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