Adrian Velicu
The Orthodox Church and National Identity in Post-Communist Romania
- Springer International Publishing
- 2021
- Taschenbuch
- 184 Seiten
- ISBN 9783030484293
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
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