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Art, Religion and Resistance in (Post-)Communist Romania

Nostalgia for Paradise Lost

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Authors:
  1. Maria Alina Asavei

    1. Department of Russian and East European Studies, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

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  • Considers how artists have refashioned the meanings and purposes of religious art for political ends during and after communism
  • Spans the fields of contemporary history, political theory, history of religion, art history and theory, and memory studies
  • Explores the multifarious connections between religion, politics and artistic production

Part of the book series: Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe (MOMEIDSEE)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Art, Politics and Religion in (Post-)Communist Romania: An Introduction

    • Maria Alina Asavei
    Pages 1-34

  3. On the Varieties of Cultural Resistance During Romanian Late Communism

    • Maria Alina Asavei
    Pages 35-61

  4. Godless Religious Art of Romanian National Communism

    • Maria Alina Asavei
    Pages 63-87

  5. Art, Nature and Ecologies of Transfiguration during Romanian National Communism

    • Maria Alina Asavei
    Pages 89-109

  6. Spiritual Ecologies and Meta-Byzantine: Music During Nicolae Ceauṣescu’s Regime

    • Maria Alina Asavei
    Pages 111-135

  7. Contemporary Aesthetic Mysticism and Religious Revitalization Movements

    • Maria Alina Asavei
    Pages 137-184

  8. The Body in (Post-)Communist Art: A Site of Salvation and Resistance

    • Maria Alina Asavei
    Pages 185-209

  9. Religion Inspired Art and Politics: Neo-Orthodoxism as Neo-Traditionalism?

    • Maria Alina Asavei
    Pages 211-248

  10. Art as Resistance to the “Religious Affair” and Consumerist Religion in Post-Communist Romania

    • Maria Alina Asavei
    Pages 249-283

  11. Looking Forward: Looking Back Through the Three Lenses of Art, Politics and Religion

    • Maria Alina Asavei
    Pages 285-301

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 303-309
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About this book

This book illuminates the interconnections between politics and religion through the lens of artistic production, exploring how art inspired by religion functioned as a form of resistance, directed against both Romanian national communism (1960-1989) and, latterly, consumerist society and its global market. It investigates the critical, tactical and subversive employments of religious motifs and themes in contemporary art pieces that confront the religious ‘affair’ in post-communist Romania. In doing so, it addresses a key gap in previous scholarship, which has paid little attention to the relationship between religious art and political resistance in communist Central and South-East Europe.  



Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Russian and East European Studies, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

    Maria Alina Asavei

About the author

Maria-Alina Asavei is Senior Lecturer at the Institute of International Studies at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, and an independent curator of contemporary art.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Art, Religion and Resistance in (Post-)Communist Romania

  • Book Subtitle: Nostalgia for Paradise Lost

  • Authors: Maria Alina Asavei

  • Series Title: Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56255-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56254-0Published: 23 October 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56257-1Published: 24 October 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-56255-7Published: 22 October 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2523-7985

  • Series E-ISSN: 2523-7993

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 309

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Russian, Soviet, and East European History, Cultural History, Fine Arts, History of Religion, Politics and Religion

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