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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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York ; Oxford
Berghahn Books
2020
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| Schriftenreihe: | Space and place
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Tag hinzufügen | 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"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | ix, 243 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten |
| ISBN: | 9781789208580 978-1-78920-858-0 |