Overview

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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Author:   Giuseppe Tateo
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   18
ISBN:  

9781789208580

ISBN 10:   1789208580
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   01 August 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

Reviews

This is an interesting, informative and topical book that makes a significant contribution to the anthropological literature on urban built spaces, lived religion, and post-communist Romania. Lavinia Stan, St. Francis Xavier University The book significantly advances our understanding of Orthodox Christianity and its post-socialist revival, contemporary East European society, the social life of architecture, and urban spatial symbolism and contestation. Christoph Brumann, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Author Information

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.

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