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SUMMARY:Giuseppe Tateo - Orthodox Churches in Post-Communist Romania | Sober Thought
DESCRIPTION:Orthodox Churches in Post-Communist Romania\nIn October 2025\, the inauguration of the People’s Salvation Cathedral in Bucharest established the world’s tallest Orthodox cathedral. Its dome now physically and symbolically towers over the House of the People\, the ultimate emblem of Romanian socialism. This monument is merely the most striking example of a broader phenomenon: the construction of over thirty cathedrals and four thousand houses of worship by the Romanian Orthodox Church since 1990. The scale of this expansion not only contrasts sharply with the trend of redundant churches in Western Europe but remains unparalleled across Central and Eastern Europe too. On the one hand\, the fast-paced Romanian church-building industry exemplifies the renewed vitality of religious life after socialism. On the other hand\, it represents massive employment of public money and the radical transformation of the urban built environment of cities and towns. \nThis presentation investigates this burgeoning religious infrastructure as a lens into post-communist restructuring. \nWhat lessons can be learned from a church-building industry embedded in the privatisation of state property\, branded as an example of economic and touristic development\, and carried out to reinforce national belonging? \nEvent Details:\n📅 Wednesday\, 8 July 2026\n🕑 14:00 EEST \n✅Register for free → https://forms.gle/tXqkwj7pbTZCkgjG8\n💻 Join us online via Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/xvj-ogxd-woc  \n🎓 Free & open to all \nGiuseppe Tateo:\nGiuseppe Tateo is a fixed-term assistant professor at Roma Tre University whose research explores the momentous transformation of Christian-Orthodox infrastructure in Romania and eastern Europe. After completing a PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and holding research and teaching roles in Milan\, Bucharest\, Prague\, and Leipzig\, he now serves as a founding member of ShaRP (Laboratory on Shared Religious Places) and associate editor of Anuac: The Journal of the Italian Anthropological Society. His publications include Under the Sign of the Cross. The People’s Salvation Cathedral and the Church-Building Industry in Postsocialist Romania (Berghahn 2020\, Romanian translation Polirom 2024) and contributions to Political Theology\, The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology\, and Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. \n  \nAbout Sober Thought: A FERBOPO Forum\nSober Thought: A FERBOPO Forum represents a new series of free online talks exploring the intersections of state\, religion\, and body politics in Romania and Central and Eastern Europe. Over the coming months\, leading scholars will present their work to an open international audience — followed by a live Q&A. Sessions run 60–75 minutes and are free to attend. \nThis event is part of the Sober Thought series — view all upcoming sessions
URL:https://grants.ulbsibiu.ro/ferbopo/event/sober-thought-tateo-orthodox-churches-post-communist-romania/
CATEGORIES:Sober Thought
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SUMMARY:Nancy Ammerman - Religion as Social Practice: Lived Religion in Context | Sober Thought
DESCRIPTION:Religion as Social Practice: Lived Religion in Context\nThis talk will provide a framework for analyzing religious practices in their social contexts. It will begin by explaining that social practices are religious when they reference or include a spiritual dimension. That dimension may be drawn from an established religious tradition or from a wide range of other cultural sources. These practices can take place both inside and beyond religious institutions. The talk will pay special attention to the way religious practices are shaped by cultural\, institutional\, and legal contexts\, as well as by religious traditions themselves – what is encouraged\, taken for granted\, or constrained.  Special attention will be directed to the multi-dimensionality of religious social practices\, including their material and bodily expressions. \nEvent Details:\n📅 Friday\, 10 July 2026\n🕑 16:00 EEST \n✅Register for free → https://forms.gle/tXqkwj7pbTZCkgjG8\n💻 Join us online via Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/xvj-ogxd-woc  \n🎓 Free & open to all \nNancy T. Ammerman:\nNancy T. Ammerman is Professor of Sociology of Religion\, Emerita\, at Boston University. Across her career\, she has focused on Conservative Protestantism and on the role of congregations in American religion. Her most recent research has focused on everyday lived religion across a wide religious and geographic spectrum\, including working with Grace Davie (University of Exeter) to coordinate an international team of scholars to assess “Religions and Social Progress” for the International Panel on Social Progress. Her latest book is Studying Lived Religion: Contexts and Practices (2021). \nAbout Sober Thought: A FERBOPO Forum\nSober Thought: A FERBOPO Forum represents a new series of free online talks exploring the intersections of state\, religion\, and body politics in Romania and Central and Eastern Europe. Over the coming months\, leading scholars will present their work to an open international audience — followed by a live Q&A. Sessions run 60–75 minutes and are free to attend. \nThis event is part of the Sober Thought series — view all upcoming sessions
URL:https://grants.ulbsibiu.ro/ferbopo/event/nancy-ammerman-religion-social-practice-sober-thought/
CATEGORIES:Sober Thought
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20260722T140000
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SUMMARY:Cristian Vasile - Relația stat-Biserică în România comunistă | Sober Thought
DESCRIPTION:Relația stat-Biserică în România comunistă\nPrezentarea oferă o analiză a prevederilor constituționale și legale privind relația dintre stat și Bisericile din Romania\, precum și o evaluare a gradului de separare dintre cele două entități în diferite etape ale perioadei comuniste. Prelegerea încearcă să compare pe scurt situația Bisericii Ortodoxe Române sub regimul de tip sovietic cu cea a celorlalte Biserici Ortodoxe aflate sub regim comunist\, în special din Europa de Sud-Est. Una dintre ipoteze este aceea că factorul greco-catolic a constituit un element specific care a caracterizat relațiile dintre Biserică și stat în România comunistă. În plus\, cazul românesc pare să se distingă atât prin infiltrarea sporită a comunităților preoțești și monahale de către informatori ai poliției politice (ai Securității)\, cât și prin utilizarea intensivă a ierarhilor ortodocși pentru promovarea naționalismului cultural susținut de stat (așa-numitul protocronism românesc). În cele din urmă\, pornind de la implicarea naționalistă a clerului ortodox în special sub regimul Ceaușescu\, prezentarea va examina\, de asemenea\, mai multe elemente de continuitate care au persistat în era postcomunistă. \nEvent Details:\n📅 Wednesday\, 22 July 2026\n🕑 14:00 EEST \n✅Register for free → https://forms.gle/tXqkwj7pbTZCkgjG8\n💻 Join us online via Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/xvj-ogxd-woc  \n🎓 Free & open to all \nCristian Vasile:\nCristian Vasile este cercetător științific I\, dr. habil. în cadrul Institutului de Istorie „N. Iorga“; Academia Română (Programul de cercetare „România şi Europa în secolul XX“) și membru corespondent al Academiei Austriece de Științe (ÖAW). Predă în cadrul Şcolii de Studii Avansate a Academiei Române unde este şi conducător de doctorat. Redactor şef adjunct al revistei Studii şi Materiale de Istorie Contemporană. \nDomenii de interes: politicile culturale interbelice şi comuniste\, istoria ecleziastică postbelică\, justiţia de tranziţie\, biografia politică. \nPublicații recente: Un cameleon și „virtuțile” oportunismului. Mihai Ralea\, o biografie politică (Humanitas\, 2025); “Mihail Ralea as Anti-fascist and Defender of Ethnic Minorities in Interwar Romania\,” in Kasper Braskén\, Anders Ahlbäck (eds.)\, Anti-fascism and Ethnic Minorities: History and Memory in Central and Eastern Europe (Routledge\, 2024)\, pp. 145-164; “Romanian Greek Catholic Church and the State: an Underground Existence during the Communist Regime\,” Rainer Bendel\, Robert Pech (eds.)\, Christen und Totalitäre Herrschaft in den Ländern Ostmittel- und Südosteuropas von 1945 die 1960er Jahre (Böhlau Verlag\, 2023)\, pp. 311-321. \n  \nAbout Sober Thought: A FERBOPO Forum\nSober Thought: A FERBOPO Forum represents a new series of free online talks exploring the intersections of state\, religion\, and body politics in Romania and Central and Eastern Europe. Over the coming months\, leading scholars will present their work to an open international audience — followed by a live Q&A. Sessions run 60–75 minutes and are free to attend. \nThis event is part of the Sober Thought series — view all upcoming sessions
URL:https://grants.ulbsibiu.ro/ferbopo/event/sober-thought-vasile-stat-biserica-romania-comunista/
CATEGORIES:Sober Thought
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