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Church Reckoning with Communism in Post-1989 Romania

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The present volume focuses on the relationship with communism of Romania's most important religious denominations and their attempt to cope with that difficult past which continues to cast an important shadow over their present. For the first time ever, this volume considers both the majority Romanian Orthodox Church and significant minority denominations such as the Roman and Greek Catholic Churches, the Reformed Church, the Hungarian Unitarian Church, and the Pentecostal Christian Denomination. It argues that no religious group (except the Greek Catholic Church, which was banned from 1948 until 1989) escaped collaboration with the communists. After 1989, however, most denominations had little desire to tackle their tainted past and make a clean start. In part, this was facilitated by the country's deficient legislation that did not encourage the pursuit of lustration, which in turn did not lead to a serious movement of elite renewal in the religious realm. Instead, a strong process of reproduction of the old elites and their adaptation to democracy has been the dominant characteristic of the post-communist period.
Lavinia Stan is professor at St. Francis Xavier University. Lucian Turcescu is professor in the Department of Theological Studies at Concordia University.
Contents Introduction Part One: The Romanian Orthodox Church Chapter 1 Prison Saints: Memorialization, Sacralization, and Collective Catharsis Monica Ciobanu Chapter 2 Go-Betweens and Intersections: The Communist Inspectors for Religious Denominations, a Case Study Anca Sincan Chapter 3 Collaboration with the Communists in the Orthodox Theological Institutes Lucian Turcescu Chapter 4 Orthodox Churches and Political Strategies in Romania and Yugoslavia Lucian N. Leustean Part Two: Catholic Churches Chapter 5 The Roman Catholic Church during and after the Communist Regime Zoltan Mihaly Nagy and Csaba Zoltan Novak Chapter 6 The Greek Catholic Church: A Troubled Recent Past and a Painful Transitional Justice Cristian Vasile Part Three: Protestant Churches Chapter 7 The Reformed Elite Facing the Communist Regime Csongor Janosi Chapter 8 Resistance, Conformation and Service: The Unitarian Church during 1945-1965 Janos Pal Chapter 9 The Pentecostals and the Legacy of Communism Vasilica Croitor Conclusion About the Contributors
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