The Orthodox Church and National Identity in Post-Communist Romania
Authors: Velicu, Adrian
Free Preview- Addresses the topic of Romanian national identity through the lens of the country’s Orthodox Church
- Examines the intellectual context of post-communist Romania, by comparing the Church’s and secular views
- Appeals to scholars and students within the fields of intellectual history, South-East Europe studies, religious studies, and political history
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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.
- Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Introductory Matters
Pages 1-37
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A Resurgent Church
Pages 39-73
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A Rampant Church
Pages 75-105
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Secular Counterpoint
Pages 107-135
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Undercurrents of Identity Discourse
Pages 137-159
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Orthodox Church and National Identity in Post-Communist Romania
- Authors
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- Adrian Velicu
- Series Title
- Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-48427-9
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-48427-9
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-48426-2
- Series ISSN
- 2523-7985
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VII, 173
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