The Orthodox Church and National Identity in Post-Communist Romania

Adrian Velicu (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

VII, 173 Seiten

2020 | 1st ed. 2020
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-48426-2 (ISBN)

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This book explores the Romanian Orthodox Church's arguments on national identity to legitimize its own place in a post-communist Romania. The work traces the clergy's deployment of the concepts of Christian Orthodoxy and Latin legacy as part of an uncharted constellation of arguments in contemporary intellectual history. A survey of public intellectuals' opinions on national identity complements the Church's views. The investigation attempts to offer an insight into the Church's efforts to re-assert itself, given free rein in a post-dictatorial world of accelerated modernization. After clarifying and surveying the Church's claims on institutional and national identity, the book then also explores the secular ideas on the subject. The subsequent analysis treats this material as "speech acts" (statements doing, not only saying, something) which are occasionally out of sync. Against a background of secularization, the Church's rhetoric articulates a distinct line of thought in the post-89 intellectual landscape.

Adrian Velicu is a guest researcher at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is the co-editor of European Cultural Memory Post-89 and the author of several monographs.

1. Introductory Matters.- 2. A Resurgent Church.- 3. A Rampant Church.- 4. Secular Counterpoint.- 5. Undercurrents of Identity Discourse.

Erscheinungsdatum	19.08.2020
Reihe/Serie	Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe
Zusatzinfo	VII, 173 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	370 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
Schlagworte	Christian Orthodoxy • European Integration • national identity • Post-89 Romania • post-communist intellectual history • post-socialism • religion in Romania • Romanian nationalism • Romanian Orthodox Church
ISBN-10	3-030-48426-2 / 3030484262
ISBN-13	978-3-030-48426-2 / 9783030484262
Zustand	Neuware