Marian Gh. Simion, PhD
Assistant Director
Email: simion@bostontheological.org (alternate simion@bc.edu)
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PhD in Public and International Affairs (Northeastern University)
MTS in Theological Studies (Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology)
BA in Religious Studies (Hellenic College)
Baccalaureate in Philology (Saint Gregory Orthodox Theological Seminary, Bucharest)
Diploma in Theology (Saint Gregory Orthodox Theological Seminary, Bucharest)
Diploma of Capacity for Priesthood (Archdiocese of Bucharest & Romanian Orthodox Patriarchate)
Dr. Marian Gh. Simion serves as the Assistant Director of the Boston Theological Institute, as well as Postdoctoral Fellow and Field Education Supervisor at Harvard Divinity School. During the past seven years he taught peace studies at Boston College Department of Theology. At the BTI he is in charge of administrative issues and publications.
Prior to immigrating to the United States in 1995, Dr. Simion completed six years of intensive theological education in Orthodox theology at the Theological Seminaries of Craiova and Bucharest, as well as at the University of Bucharest Faculty of Orthodox Theology. While in Bucharest, he also studied music theory and Byzantine musicology at the National Academy of Music. He studied bel canto privately with the renowned Romanian tenor, Corneliu Fanateanu, then was hired as a professional baritone in the Choir of the Opera Nationala Bucuresti.
Trained both as an Orthodox theologian and as a political scientist, in the United States, Dr. Simion focuses his research on international security, comparative politics, political theology, religious phenomenology, and collective violence, with a special focus on Eastern and Oriental Christianity. In 2008 he founded The Institute for Peace Studies in Eastern Christianity (IPSEC) for the purpose of advancing research and curricula development for peace studies. He is the founding editor of the BTI Magazine, and a member of the Editorial Board of Studii Teologice, the top-ranked theological journal of the Schools of Theology under the Romanian Patriarchate.
Dr. Simion is the author of the Double-Competition Theory in conflict resolution.
His latest publications include the following:
• "Religion, Population, and Health" section co-author with Ryan Jackson, Jim Gray, Andrew Oerke in "The Future of the Arctic: A Key to Global Sustainability" (USA Club of Rome Report 2012) edited by Francesco Stipo. pp. 42-52 in CADMUS Volume 1, No. 5, October 2012 (CADMUS is published by World Academy of Art and Science)
• Just Peace: Orthodox Perspectives (co-editor & co-author) WCC Publications: Geneva, 2012;
• Religion and Political Conflict: From Dialectics to Cross-Domain Charting (author, Preface by His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, and contributions from Professor David Little and Ambassador Mihnea Motoc), Presses internationales polytechnique: Montreal, 2011;
• Overcoming Violence: Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding (co-editor & co-author) Boston Theological Institute: Newton Centre, MA, 2010);
• Tracing Contours: Reflections on World Mission and Christianity (co-editor & co-author) Boston Theological Institute: Newton Centre, MA, 2010)
Dr. Simion is a member of the American Academy of Religion, the American Political Science Association, and of several think-tanks including The Club of Rome (USA), Oxford Round Table, and others.
Media Expertise
Dr. Marian Gh. Simion welcomes media inquiries on the following subjects:
Political Violence and Religion
Orthodox Christianity
Ecumenical Affairs
Terrorism, International Security and Religion
Nationalism and Identity Politics
Global Politics and Religion
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