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the human body - are especially useful when we try to explain the Christian Church’s negative attitude towards corporeality, physical culture, physical education, sport, tourism and recreation, which has lasted for almost two thousand years. It refers to the early Christian Patristic Period, the Middle Ages, modem and contemporary times. That explanation can be also useful for explaining reasons of re-evaluation of that attitude in Catholicism, Orthodox Christianity and Protestantism in the 20^lh century, as well as a far-going affirmation of the body and its needs connected with various forms of physical culture.

The pointed out researches in the field of philosophy of religion and Christian anthropology have been commented on in an encyclopaedia of Polish Scientific Publishers PWN entitled “Religion” (the entry “Rosiewicz”, Warszawa, vol. 6, 2003, p. 55).

Another, strictly philosophical sphere of Prof. J. Kosiewicz’s considerations is connected with ancient Greek philosophy and its influence on Western thought and culture. He, among others, turns his attention to the origins and transformations of that philosophy, and to its etymological, ontological, epistemological and anthropological foundations and determinants. Hence he deals with issues concerning religious and cognitive determinants of Pythagoreanism; refers to relations between Socrates’ agnosticism and contemporary epistemological scepticism and to problems connected with corporeality, sex and erotic love in the context of Plato’s philosophy of culture saturated with madness and striving for immortality. He penetrates ancient interpretations of time in generał and their influence on Cartesian, Kantian and Heideggerian theories of being and time. He refers also to relations taking place between Pythagorean and post-Pythagorean philosophy of cosmos, on the one hand, and Copernican astronomy and its Kantian and Nietzschean reception, on the other. A manifestation of that activity is not only a membership in the International Association of Greek Philosophy - and participation in its annual seminars and conferences - but also many English-language publications under auspices of that institution and books dedicated to the abovementioned issues to be published in Polish and English.

Professor Rosiewicz is also a drama critic and a reviewer - although less active than some time ago. He has published over 40 papers connected with theatre and some concerning the theory of film.

In recent years - beginning from 2003 - Professor Rosiewicz has been directing international team researches in the field of sport social Sciences, which initially were participated by representatives of 8 States (Austria, Germany, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Estonia, Russia and Poland) and then of 13 States. The previous ones were joined by partners from Finland, Denmark, Norway, Slovakia and Greece. The abovementioned researches concerned: 1. Values and cultural patterns in sport (complementary-comparative research); and 2. Social and cultural values of sport. The latter were to be carried out from 2006 till 2009. They have been carried out under the auspices of the Ministry of Science and University Education (and its earlier equivalents), the University of Physical Education in Warsaw and the European Association for the Sociology of Sport. Recently patronage for the abovementioned research activity have started to be provided by the International Society for the Social Sciences of Sport and the Polish Association of Sport Social Sciences, which have replaced the EASS. Ali the abovementioned books in Polish and English which have been published sińce 2003 were connected with the discussed researches. They include papers concerning first of all philosophy and sociology of sport, physical culture organizations as well as psychology and pedagogy of sport.

In 2004 Professor Rosiewicz took part in two autonomies grant’s researches under the umbrella of European Commission’s. It was realized by European Academy for Sports Leaders (under the patronage of International Society for Sport and Culture); b) European Academy of Sport for All (under the patronage of ISCA).