Organizers: The Interdisciplinary Group for the Study of Religions at the Institute for Political Research (University of Bucharest)
Period: June 9-10, 2006
Place: Institute for Political Research of the University of Bucharest (Spiru Haret str., no. 8).
Description:
During the last several years, a number of studies have appeared dealing with the issue of the relationship between religion and politics in Romania.
The churches in Romania and the entire Romanian society have passed, along this last century, through the experience of several totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, which left their mark on Romanian contemporary history. How did these experiences influence the life and experience of the Churches in Romania? What is their
heritage? And what happens with these Churches after the fall of those regimes?
The purpose of this conference is to offer a reevaluation of existing research directions and the investigation of new such directions. Thus, considering the nowadays crisis of the theory of secularization – the central explanatory paradigm, in the Western literature in this field, for the evolution of the situation and role of religions in the life of contemporary societies - , bringing together researchers of several fields for a debate on the above- mentioned issue may contribute to the forging of a working paradigm accounting also for the situation of religion in the Central and Eastern European area.
The conference will have three working groups:
1. Church and politics in the interwar period;
2. Church and politics under communism;
3. Church and politics during the post-communist period.
For any other information please contact: Iuliana Conovici (iulicon@yahoo.com )
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