Abstract: Starting mostly with the second half of the 20th century, the churches and the religiou... more Abstract: Starting mostly with the second half of the 20th century, the churches and the religious communities are facing the challenges raised by the process of secularization, which is considered by some sociologists of religion as irreversible. The most affected ones were / are the traditional churches and the most obvious area where this phenomenon has become very visible is the Western Europe. This study aims to analyze the situation of the traditional churches in Romania, with a special focus on the Greek-Catholic Church, from the same perspective: the impact of post-modernity over a church which is very much orientated towards the West, which is becoming more and more urban and is still passing through a complicated process of structuring and transition. The study underlines the fact that one of the answers to the problems raised by the process of secularization is based on the way in which the ecclesiastical community is built and on how deep is the consciousness of the conf...
The Greek-Catholic Church in Romania has been forced to face a set of major challenges in the las... more The Greek-Catholic Church in Romania has been forced to face a set of major challenges in the last 25 years: the institutional and administrative reorganization after its return to a legal existence; the relation to the Romanian state and the Romanian Orthodox Church; but also the relation to its own community of believers confronted with the evolutions specific to the post-modern world. The Romanian Uniate Church was, and in a sense still is, also faced with the need to find a satisfactory answer to the question: how much should it go back in time in order to tie again the line of its discourse of identity?; how much should it go back in time in order to be able to find those links that would define in a natural way the characteristics of its own confessional identity? Back to 1948? To 1848? Back to the roots from 1700? This dilemma, correlated to the aspects of the confessional, social and political context of the last decades, has determined the way in which the discourse of iden...
Journal For the Study of Religions and Ideologies, Jun 25, 2014
Starting mostly with the second half of the 20th century, the churches and the religious communit... more Starting mostly with the second half of the 20th century, the churches and the religious communities are facing the challenges raised by the process of secularization, which is considered by some sociologists of religion as irreversible. The most affected ones were / are the traditional churches and the most obvious area where this phenomenon has become very visible is the Western Europe. This study aims to analyze the situation of the traditional churches in Romania, with a special focus on the Greek-Catholic Church, from the same perspective: the impact of post-modernity over a church which is very much orientated towards the West, which is becoming more and more urban and is still passing through a complicated process of structuring and transition. The study underlines the fact that one of the answers to the problems raised by the process of secularization is based on the way in which the ecclesiastical community is built and on how deep is the consciousness of the confessional identity rooted in the mind and the soul of the believers.
Abstract: Starting mostly with the second half of the 20th century, the churches and the religiou... more Abstract: Starting mostly with the second half of the 20th century, the churches and the religious communities are facing the challenges raised by the process of secularization, which is considered by some sociologists of religion as irreversible. The most affected ones were / are the traditional churches and the most obvious area where this phenomenon has become very visible is the Western Europe. This study aims to analyze the situation of the traditional churches in Romania, with a special focus on the Greek-Catholic Church, from the same perspective: the impact of post-modernity over a church which is very much orientated towards the West, which is becoming more and more urban and is still passing through a complicated process of structuring and transition. The study underlines the fact that one of the answers to the problems raised by the process of secularization is based on the way in which the ecclesiastical community is built and on how deep is the consciousness of the conf...
The Greek-Catholic Church in Romania has been forced to face a set of major challenges in the las... more The Greek-Catholic Church in Romania has been forced to face a set of major challenges in the last 25 years: the institutional and administrative reorganization after its return to a legal existence; the relation to the Romanian state and the Romanian Orthodox Church; but also the relation to its own community of believers confronted with the evolutions specific to the post-modern world. The Romanian Uniate Church was, and in a sense still is, also faced with the need to find a satisfactory answer to the question: how much should it go back in time in order to tie again the line of its discourse of identity?; how much should it go back in time in order to be able to find those links that would define in a natural way the characteristics of its own confessional identity? Back to 1948? To 1848? Back to the roots from 1700? This dilemma, correlated to the aspects of the confessional, social and political context of the last decades, has determined the way in which the discourse of iden...
Journal For the Study of Religions and Ideologies, Jun 25, 2014
Starting mostly with the second half of the 20th century, the churches and the religious communit... more Starting mostly with the second half of the 20th century, the churches and the religious communities are facing the challenges raised by the process of secularization, which is considered by some sociologists of religion as irreversible. The most affected ones were / are the traditional churches and the most obvious area where this phenomenon has become very visible is the Western Europe. This study aims to analyze the situation of the traditional churches in Romania, with a special focus on the Greek-Catholic Church, from the same perspective: the impact of post-modernity over a church which is very much orientated towards the West, which is becoming more and more urban and is still passing through a complicated process of structuring and transition. The study underlines the fact that one of the answers to the problems raised by the process of secularization is based on the way in which the ecclesiastical community is built and on how deep is the consciousness of the confessional identity rooted in the mind and the soul of the believers.
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