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 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 boo...

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Main Author: Tateo, Giuseppe (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford Berghahn Books [2020]
Series:Space and Place 18
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Summary: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'
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Okt 2022)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (256 Seiten)
ISBN:9781789208597
DOI:10.1515/9781789208597

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