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Ultimate Reality and Meaning Journal

Interdisciplinary Studies in the Philosophy of Understanding

A. General Description

B. Notes for Contributors

C. Volume Indices

D. Sample Article

A. General Description

The journal is published quarterly by an association of professors and experts from all parts of the world who have an interest in interdisciplinary research on our effort to find meaning in our world. It publishes studies dealing with those facts, things, ideas, axioms, persons and values which people throughout history have considered ultimate (i.e. that to which the human mind reduces and relates everything and that which one does not reduce and relate to anything else) or as horizons (i.e. world views in the light of which humans understand whatever they understand) or as supreme value (i.e. for which someone would sacrifice everything and which one would not lose for anything).

It covers humanity's entire history, from the earliest preliterate groupings to contemporary society. Beliefs, world views and conceptualizations of an ultimate reality and meaning of human existence will be identified and analyzed through the culture they represent and the period from which they are taken. The analytical and critical description of all that the human mind ever thought about the ultimate reality and meaning of human existence is expected to initiate systematic and structural studies of the most universal dynamics that have driven human consciousness from its dawn until the present day.

GENERAL EDITOR:
TIBOR HORVATH, SJ
Regis College
15 St. Mary Street
Toronto, ON M4Y 2R5, Canada
EDITOR:
JOHN F. PERRY
Institute for URAM
St. Paul's College
University of Manitoba
70 Dysart Road
Winnipeg, MB R3T 2M6 CANADA
Tel. (204) 474-7186. Fax (204) 474-7613.
E-mail: perryjf@cc.umanitoba.ca
EXECUTIVE EDITOR:
J. PATRICK MOHR
University of Scranton
Scranton, PA 18510 USA
CO-EDITORS:
PETER F. MORGAN
University College, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M4S 1A1 Canada
ANDREW J. RECK
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118-5698 USA
COPY EDITOR:
SHEILA WATSON
66 Falby Court, Apt. 1402, Ajax, ON L1S 3O2 CANADA
SECTION EDITORS:
African Studies:
Eugene Goussikindy, S.J.
c/o Procure des Missions, Chausse de Haacht, 8-1210 Bruxelles, Belgium
Altaic and Uralic Studies:
HAROLD R. BATTERSBY
State University College of Arts and Science, Genesco, NY 14454 USA
Anthropological Studies:
THOMAS BARGATZKY
Universitat Bayreuth, Geschwister-School-Platz. 3, 8580 Bayreuth, Germany
Biochemistry:
GEORGE PANCO
8, rue Bochart de Saron, BP 500, 75421 Paris Cedex 09, France
Biology:
JOSEF SVOBODA
University of Toronto, Erindale Campus Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6 Canada
Canadian Literature:
ALEXANDER M. FORBES
University College of the Cariboo, 900 College Drive, Box 3010, Kamloops, BC V2C 5N3 Canada
Chemistry:
ALLEN R. UTKE
University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, WI 54901-8645 USA
Chinese Studies:
HUANG SONGKANG
The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 5 Jianguomen Nei Da Jie, Beijing, China
Computer Studies:
JULIA A. JOHNSON
University of Regina, Regina, SK S4S 0A2 Canada
Economics:
ALBERT ROTSTEIN
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A1 Canada
English Literature:
DAVID J. LEIGH
Seattle University, Seattle, WA 98112 USA
First Nations Studies:
CARL F. STARKLOFF
Regis College, 15 St. Mary Street, Toronto, ON M4Y 2R5 Canada
Genome Studies:
STEPHEN M. MODELL
3086 Deer Creek Ct., Ann Arbor, MI 48105 USA
Hellenic and Roman Classic Studies:
DAVID SIDER
Fordham University, Bronx, NY 10485-5154 USA
Japanese Studies:
SHOKICHI UTO
Nihon University, 2-870-1, Sakaecho-Nishi, Matsudo, Chiba 271, Japan
Judaic Studies:
ZE'EV LEVY
University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa 31999 Israel
Latin-American Studies:
YAMANDU ACOSTA RONCAGLIOLO
Alarcon 1573, Montevideo, Uruguay
Medieval Studies:
RAYMOND MACKEN
Catholic University of Leuven, Kard. Mercierplein 2,B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
Nahua Studies:
JAMES MAFFIE
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA 80523-1781
Neurophysiology:
ANDREW B. NEWBERG
1750 Oakwood Terrace, #16H, Penn Valley, PA 19072 USA
Philosophical Studies:
THOMAS KRETTEK
Creighton University, Omaha, NE, 68178 USA
Psychological Studies:
MALCOLM R. WESTCOTT
York University, Downsview, ON M3J 1P3 Canada
Religious Studies:
GERHOLD K. BECKER
Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
Social Psychology:
GUIDO PETERS
Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Sociobiology:
MARCEL ROELE
European Sociobiological Society, Meeuwenlaan 111a 1021 HX Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Sociology:
ANTHONY J. BLASI
Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN 37209-1561 USA
Spanish Studies:
MARK DeSTEPHANO
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
Sport and Entertainment Studies:
HARRY JAMES CARGAS
Webster University, St. Louis, MO 63119 USA
Theological Studies:
HANS WALDENFELS
Universitat Bonn, 5300 Bonn 1, Germany
Women Studies:
Joyce Pandelis
Shaw University, Raleigh, NC, 313 New Kent Place, Cary NC 27511-4556 USA

Correspondence regarding contributions, and membership of the Institute of URAM should be addressed to the Editor.

Subscriptions and remittances should be sent to the University of Toronto Press Incorporated, Journal Department, 5201 Dufferin Street, North York, ON M3H 5T8 Canada

Institutional subscription:
Canada: $49 plus GST;
Other Countries $49 plus $5 for postage and handling.
Individual subscription:
Canada $27 plus GST;
Other Countries: $27 plus $5 for postage and handling.

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B. Notes for Contributors

It is recommended that potential contributors first write either to the editor or to the section editor to determine whether or not the subjects on which they wish to write have already been assigned.

Contributions concerning methods and approaches for studying the areas under discussion are desired.

Structural and systematic reflection on the articles already published in the journal are welcome.

Reviews and assessments of articles published in the journal are invited in order to stimulate further research. Such reviews and assessments will form the content of a special section called Reviews and Evaluations of Articles. Contributors are requested to follow the following guide-lines for content and format:

I. CONTENT
1. Essential Information:

(a) if about a man or woman: date and country of birth; geographical and historical setting; education; major influences; important stages in life and thought; influence, important writings and publications (commentaries, studies, books or articles).

(b) if about doctrine, system of ideas and/or school: definitions; leading exponents, most important ideas; historical period of influence; listing of important writings and commentaries on the doctrine, system and school.

(c) if about tribes, peoples or countries: name and geographical setting; history of studies and sources; origin and history; major influences, social structure,commerce, industry, government, language, religion, art, music, etc., influence on other people, contributions, questions to be studied, description of how life is seen by the group; description of the corresponding symbols, images and the network of their correlative function, description of how he group tries to survive by adapting itself to or by manipulating the patterns of life.

2. Ultimate Reality and Meaning of Subject Matter Studies in Depth and Social Impact

(a) description and definition of important names, terms, symbols, metaphors used to express ultimate reality and meaning of human existence.

(b) elaboration of basic idea or ideas: here the contributor should be guided by such questions as:
  • Is the ultimate reality and meaning dealt with directly or indirectly? How is it expressed: as space model, e.g., milieu, horizon, context, etc.: time model, e.g. origin, cause, ultimate, final, etc.: person model, e.g. God, spirit, spirits, etc.?
  • What is the final horizon, the central idea in terms of which the meaning of human existence is understood?
  • What is the conception of the universe, its origin and destiny, if there is one" What is the role of man/woman, his/her moral ends and moral relations to the universe and its creator(s), if any, or to the totality of existence?
  • What is the logicogenetic development of what is taken as ultimate? Are these ideas original or derivative? If derivative, from whom and how?
  • What is the meaning of the universe? What is the meaning of human existence? What does man/woman expect from life? What are the desires man/woman expects to be fulfilled (e.g. to harmonize the world? to live forever? to enable family, clan, society continue to survive? to be united with God or with the universe? etc.)
  • What is the relation between the desires, the reality in which man lives and the heaven to which he wants to go?
  • How is happiness or a better future visualized? What is man/woman expected to do to reach the desired happiness?
  • In what context do such desires make sense and in what context do they not? Do these ideas contribute to a greater and deeper understanding of the ultimate reality and meaning of human existence or experience?

The contributor should not dwell on beliefs incidental to these ultimates, unless for understanding them. It is also expected that he/she will criticize and evaluate these basic ideas.
II. FORMAT
  1. Manuscripts: A manuscript should be submitted in triplicate to the relevant Section Editor or to the Editor. The manuscript will be sent to two or three scholars for comment. The comment and the author's reply may be published in the journal.
  2. Language: English is the preferred language. All articles should be submitted in English, but other languages will be used in the case of exceptional papers where English submission is difficult.
  3. Length: Preferred maximum length of any article is 40 doublespaced pages.
  4. References:
    (a) References should be included in the text within parentheses and arranged as this example: (Hartshorne, 1967, pp. 156-158).
    (b) All references should be listed alphabetically at the end of the manuscript, author, title, publisher, etc. and should be arranged as in the following examples:
    Book:
    Hartshorne, C. 1967. The Divine Relativity. A social conception of God. 3rd edition. New Haven: Yale University Press.
    Article:
    Horvath, T. 1969. 'Encyclopedia of Human Ideas on Ultimate Reality and Meaning: A plan for a new encyclopedia'. Revue de L'Universite d'Ottawa. 39:94-106.
  5. Abstracts: Every contributor should include with his manuscript a short abstract limited to 250 words and a glossary, i.e. an indication of the specific interpretation he gives to all the key? terms (e.g. 'mana', systems analysis, etc.) used in that particular area of research. Finally a short introduction about the? contributor is also requested.
  6. Page proofs, reprints: The contributor receives page proofs. For other than printer's errors, changes in page proofs in excess of 10% will be charged to the contributor.

Each author (or main author of a multi-author work) will receive 5 complimentary copies of the issue in which his/her article appears. Offprints may be ordered from the printer.

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