Under the sign of the cross: the People's Salvation Cathedral and the church-building industry in postsocialist Romania

"Based on extensive ethnographic research, this book investigates the construction of the world's highest Orthodox cathedral in Bucharest, Romania. Through the notion of re-consecration, the book brings together sociological and anthropological scholarship on eastern Christianity, seculari...

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1. Verfasser: Tateo, Giuseppe 1989- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York ; Oxford Berghahn Books 2020
Schriftenreihe:Space and place 18
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Zusammenfassung:"Based on extensive ethnographic research, this book investigates the construction of the world's highest Orthodox cathedral in Bucharest, Romania. Through the notion of re-consecration, the book brings together sociological and anthropological scholarship on eastern Christianity, secularization, post-socialist urban change and nationalism in a vivid account of societal transformation. The book identifies the structures of political and economic power, which allowed its fast construction, and why the state wanted such a religious revival of the urban space"--
Beschreibung:ix, 243 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:9781789208580

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