Giuseppe Tateo

Under the Sign of the Cross (eBook, ePUB)

The People's Salvation Cathedral and the Church-Building Industry in Postsocialist Romania

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781789208597
• Artikelnr.: 58761053

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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