Acknowledgements Introduction Part I. A Modern, National Church 1. Romanian Orthodox Christianity 2. Renewal 3. A Contested Patriarchate Part II. Orthodoxy’s Others 4. Reaction 5. Catholics 6. Repenters 7. Missionaries Part III. Renewal Movement 8. The Lord’s Army 9. The Stork’s Nest Conclusion Bibliography Index
An examination of religious reform and sectarianism in interwar Romania, set in the context of Orthodox centralization and nation-building processes.
Roland Clark is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Liverpool, UK. He is the author of Holy Legionary Youth: Fascist Activism in Interwar Romania (2015).
Sectarianism and Renewal in 1920s Romania is a welcome foray into
the religious history of this important era. Clark has produced an
original work that takes a fresh approach, one that combines
several histories that are usually told separately and challenges
assumptions about the religiosity of interwar Romania ... Anyone
with an interest in the history of religion in modern Eastern
Europe will find this an important work to study.
*H-Net Reviews: Humanities & Social Sciences Online*
Roland Clark’s comprehensive historical study of the 1920s
religious Romania is a welcome contribution to the field ...
Clark’s study offers a well researched, integrated and balanced
presentation of inter-war 1920’s religious situation in Romania
that is much needed.
*Jurnal teologic*
Roland Clark’s book represents a precious historiographical piece
for those who really want to understand in depth the complexity of
inter-war Romania and the obstacles that stood in the way of a real
and deep modernization of the State and society in the most dynamic
reality of South-Eastern Europe.
*European Review of History*
Based on a prodigious array of primary and secondary sources and
underpinned by a sophisticated theoretical framework, Sectarianism
and Renewal in 1920s Romania should become mandatory reading for
history and religious studies scholars alike.
*Church History*
Roland Clark’s Sectarianism and Renewal in 1920s Romania provides a
synthesis of the complex process of negotiation among leaders and
innovators inside the Romanian Orthodox Church (ROC).
*Canadian Slavonic Papers*
Sectarianism and Renewal in 1920s Romania successfully introduces
and systematizes a period about which not much has been written
until now in the English-language scholarship. It is highly
recommended for use by scholars of religion, historians and
specialists in East European studies. Undergraduate and graduate
students will appreciate it too.
*Slavonic & East European Review*
Roland Clark has written an extremely thought-provoking book that
opens up significant new perspectives on the relationship between
Orthodoxy, religious otherness and the state in interwar Romania.
Competing ideas of Orthodox renewal, social progress and national
salvation, all in the shadow of the phantom threat posed by foreign
Repenter sects, are methodically elucidated in this comprehensive
study. Drawing on a unique set of archival and contemporary
periodical sources that take us into the world of grassroots
religious activists, missionaries, dissenters and renewal movements
as well as the debates of bishops, theologians and politicians,
this book will serve as a trusted guide to the complex world of
religious sensibilities and identities, competition and
contestation in Romania. This book is a must for all those seeking
to understand the dynamics of religious and cultural exchange
between East and West in twentieth century Romania and Orthodox
Eastern Europe more broadly.
*James A. Kapaló, University College Cork, author of Inochentism
and Orthodox Christianity: Religious Dissent in the Russian and
Romanian Borderlands.*
Roland Clark’s study represents a path-breaking analysis of the
role played by organized religious faiths in developing an
articulated nationalism in 1920s Romania. The author displays a
sophisticated use of primary and secondary sources to construct a
cogent conceptual framework that invites the reader to reconsider
narratives about modernity by also highlighting the significance of
universal male suffrage and the growth of civil society. As such,
this book offers essential reading for all students of interwar
Central and Eastern Europe.
*Dennis Deletant, Emeritus Professor of Romanian Studies,
University College London, UK*
Painstakingly documented and elegantly written, Sectarianism and
Renewal in 1920s Romania: The Limits of Orthodoxy and
Nation-Building presents an intricate palimpsest of discussions,
publications and initiatives that ultimately linked Orthodoxy to
nationalism in the young Romanian modern state.
*Balkanistica*
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