Melintas is a international journal on philosophy and religion and it is published three times a year.
Melintas is an Indonesian word, literally it means 'to move across' or 'to pass over'. The journal uses it in the sense of 'moving across the border of horizons' and 'passing over the limits of mind' so as to find ever new ideas and possibilities of understanding life and humankind.
The chief editor is Prof. Dr. Bambang Sugiharto.
The associate editors are: Agus Rachmat Widianto, Antonius Subianto, Harimanto Suryanugraha, Fabianus S. Heatubun, Fransiskus Borgias, Maman Suharman, FX Rudiyanto Subagio, Hadrianus Tedjoworo, Laurentius Tarpin, Leonardus Samosir, Slamet Purwadi, Budiono Kusomohamidjojo and Roy Voragen.
The editorial consultants are: George F. McLean (The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, Washington DC, USA), Tomonobu Imamichi (Centre Internati onal por l'etude Comparee de Philosophie et d'esthetique, Japan), William Sweet (St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Canada), B. Suprapto Brotosiswojo (Faculty of Theology, Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta), Glen Lewandowski (Prior General of Ordo Sanctea Crucis, Rome), Edmund Kee Fock Chia (Catholic Theological Union, Assistent Professor of Doctrinal Theology, Chicago), Goenawan Mohamad (Komunitas Utan Kayu, Jakarta), and Garin Nugroho (SET Foundation).
Vol.25, no. (August 2008):
- Roy Voragen, "The City as Autobiography: The Self and the City as Reflexive Projects"
- Gadis Arivia, "Sexuality and Sexual Politics in Contemporary Indonesia"
- Yohanes Slamet Purwadi, "Fundamentalism Revisited: Fundamentalism as a Counter-Culture to Modernity and its Values"
- Yasraf Amir Piliang, "Tradition, Repetition, Transformation: The Dynamic of Cultural Globalization"
- Donny Gahral Adian, "Literature and Evil: Dostoyevsky's Poetic Thinking on Evil"
- Laurentius Tarpin, "Analisis Kritis atas Rerum Novarum (1891) dan Octogesima Adveniens (1971) dari Perspektif Perempuan"
