Under the Sign of the Cross

The People's Salvation Cathedral and the Church-Building Industry in Postsocialist Romania
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78920-858-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 18, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 526 g

Reihe: Space and Place

Based on extensive ethnographic research, this book delves into the thriving industry of religious infrastructure in Romania, where 4,000 Orthodox churches and cathedrals have been built in three decades. Following the construction of the world’s highest Orthodox cathedral in Bucharest, the book brings together sociological and anthropological scholarship on eastern Christianity, secularization, urban change and nationalism. Reading postsocialism through the prism of religious change, the author argues that the emergence of political, entrepreneurial and intellectual figures after 1990 has happened ‘under the sign of the cross’.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tateo, Giuseppe

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Östliche & Orientalische Orthodoxe Kirchen
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Notes on Text

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Part I: The Cathedral

Chapter 1. The Cathedral and the People Around it

Chapter 2. The Actors

Chapter 3. Controversies and Predicaments

Chapter 4. Clergymen’s Authority and the Rise of Anticlericalism

Part II: Churches, Crosses, and a Mosque

Chapter 5. Why and How Orthodox Churches Multiply in Bucharest and in Romania

Chapter 6. One Symbol, Many Meanings: The Political Life of the Cross

Conclusion

Appendix 1: Houses of Worship in Romania, updated to 31 December 2015

Appendix 2: New Orthodox Cathedrals in Romania, 1990–2019

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tateo, Giuseppe
Giuseppe Tateo is postdoctoral fellow at the New Europe College of Bucharest. He specializes in the anthropology of postsocialist Romania, Eastern Christianity and urban anthropology.