Sectarianism and Renewal in 1920s Romania
Subtitle: The Limits of Orthodoxy and Nation-Building
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc; Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781350100954
Description: "Bringing the history of the Orthodox Church into dialogue with sectarianism, heresy, grassroots religious organization and nation-building, Roland Clark explores how competing religious groups in interwar Romania responded to and emerged out of similar catalysts, including rising literacy rates, new religious practices and a newly empowered laity inspired by universal male suffrage and a growing civil society who took control of community organizing. Situated at the intersection of transnational history, religious history and the history of reading, Sectarianism and Renewal in 1920s Romania challenges us to rethink the one-sided narratives about modernity and religious conflict in interwar Eastern Europe"--