Church Reckoning with Communism in Post-1989 Romania
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Church Reckoning with Communism in Post-1989 Romania

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  2. English
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Church Reckoning with Communism in Post-1989 Romania

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The present volume focuses on the relationship with Communism of Romania's most important religious denominations and their attempt to cope with that difficult past which continues to cast an important shadow over their present. For the first time ever, this volume considers both the majority Romanian Orthodox Church and significant minority denominations such as the Roman and Greek Catholic Churches, the Reformed Church, the Hungarian Unitarian Church, and the Pentecostal Christian Denomination. It argues that no religious group escaped collaboration with the Communists. After 1989, however, most denominations had little desire to tackle their tainted past and make a clean start. In part, this situation was facilitated by the country's deficient legislation that did not encourage the pursuit of lustration, which in turn did not lead to a serious movement of elite renewal in the religious realm. Instead, a strong process of reproduction of the old elites and their adaptation to democracy has been the dominant characteristic of the post-Communist period.

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Yes, you can access Church Reckoning with Communism in Post-1989 Romania by Lucian Turcescu,Lavinia Stan in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & Russian History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Part I: The Romanian Orthodox Church
  8. Chapter 1: Prison Saints: Memorialization, Sacralization, and Collective Catharsis
  9. Chapter 2: Go-Betweens and Intersections: The Communist Inspectors for Religious Denominations, a Case Study
  10. Chapter 3: Collaboration with the Communists in the Orthodox Theological Institutes
  11. Chapter 4: Orthodox Churches and Political Strategies in Romania and Yugoslavia
  12. Part II: Catholic Churches
  13. Chapter 5: The Roman Catholic Church during and after the Communist Regime
  14. Chapter 6: The Greek Catholic Church: A Troubled Recent Past and a Painful Transitional Justice
  15. Part III: Protestant Churches
  16. Chapter 7: The Reformed Elite Facingthe Communist Regime
  17. Chapter 8: Resistance, Conformation, and Service: The Unitarian Church during 1945–1965
  18. Chapter 9: The Pentecostals and the Legacy of Communism
  19. Conclusion
  20. Index
  21. About the Editors and Contributors