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SUMMARY:Sabrina P. Ramet - Religion and Nation | Sober Thought
DESCRIPTION:Religion and Nation\nThere are some puzzles where religion and nationhood are concerned. When did the sense of national belonging first arise and what drove this feeling? Did this sense of national belonging in Eastern Europe arise at the same time? Did Christianity drive the rise of the religio-national  community? How did the Protestant Reformation impact national belonging in religiously divided states such as Hungary and Slovakia? Benedict Anderson (1983) and Ernest Gellner  (1983) tied the rise of national consciousness to modernization and industrialization. With the  industrial revolution coming in the wake of the French Revolution\, the modernist hypothesis  linked the rise of a sense of national belonging to the nineteenth century. This hypothesis was challenged by Anthony D. Smith (1986)\, Adrian Hastings (1997)\, and Patrick Geary (2002)\, who  traced the appearance of national feeling to the early Middle Ages in England\, with national consciousness arising in other countries later. For both the modernists and the premodernists\, the sense of national belonging developed in different countries at different rates. For the modernists\, the key  actors were industrialization and the spread of literacy. For the premodernists\, the role of religion and myth-making. On this point\, Gábor Klaniczay (2002) emphasized the use of canonization for legitimating a dynasty and sacralizing a nation. His work shows the role of Christianity in promoting a sense of religio-national community. A religio-national community presumes religious unity and linguistic unity. Protestantism broke that unity\, giving rise to the Thirty Years’ War. In Eastern Europe\, Poland was severely impacted in the short run\, Bohemia descended into the religiously driven Hussite wars\, and Hungary ended up with three Churches all claiming to be “national”: the Roman Catholic\, Reformed (Calvinist)\, and Lutheran Churches. \nEvent Details:\n📅 Wednesday\, 27 May 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 \nSabrina P. Ramet:\nSabrina P. Ramet is a Professor Emerita of Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)\, in Trondheim\, Norway. Born in London\, England\, she received her undergraduate degree in philosophy at Stanford University\, her MA in international relations from the University of Arkansas\, and her Ph.D. in political science at UCLA in 1981. She is the author of 16 scholarly books (three of which have been published in Croatian translations)\, co-author of three\, and editor or co-editor of 43 scholarly books (of which 42 have been published to date\, with one in production). Her latest monograph is East Central Europe and Communism:  Politics\, Culture\, and Society\, 1943-1991 (London & New York:  Routledge\, 2023).  She is also the author of two absurdist novellas: Café Bombshell: The International Brain Surgery Conspiracy (Scarith Books\, 2008) and The Curse of the Aztec Dummy (Scarith Books\, 2017) and six volumes of humorous verse. \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-ramet-religion-nation/
CATEGORIES:Sober Thought
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20260618T150000
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SUMMARY:Radu Cinpoes - Church and Sexual Exploitation | Sober Thought
DESCRIPTION:Church and Sexual Exploitation\nTrafficking in persons for the purpose of sexual exploitation as well as gender-based violence more broadly constitute ongoing and highly concerning issues in Romania. Mechanisms for prevention that rely on education concerning sexuality\, consent and healthy relationships are undermined by conservative and reactionary actors on grounds that they represent deviant Western\, ‘woke’ ideologies. The aim of this talk is to focus on the Romanian Orthodox Church (and its affiliated groups and organisations) as a powerful force that influences policy\, social norms and public perceptions. The argument advanced here is that on the one hand\, BOR has the capacity and moral positioning to be a potential game changer in prevention initiatives. On the other hand\, its reactionary position constitutes an important barrier in the fight against human trafficking and sexual exploitation. \nEvent Details:\n📅 Thursday\, 18 June 2026\n🕑 15:00 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 \nRadu Cinpoes:\nRadu Cinpoes is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations and Academic Portfolio Lead for Politics and International Relations. Radu joined the University of Greenwich in September 2023\, having been Head of the Department of Politics and International Relations at Kingston University since 2014. Prior to that\, he taught at Kingston University and the University of Westminster. Radu studied Language and Literature in Romania and was completed a postgraduate degree in Comparative Literature there\, before he was awarded his PhD in Political Science at Kingston University in 2006. \nRadu’s teaching and research interests include global political issues\, right wing politics\, human rights and social justice\, and migration and refugee issues. Growing out of his interest in nationalism and the politics of exclusion\, his research has recently focused on two complementary directions: issues concerning right-wing populism and extremism\, discrimination and intolerance\, on the one hand\, and migration\, mobility and refugee issues on the other. He has published on the extreme right\, nationalism\, European identity and Romanian politics. His current research project investigates agential reflexive mediation of structural conditionings and the role of social networks in the context of transnational mobility. \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-cinpoes-church-sexual-exploitation/
CATEGORIES:Sober Thought
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SUMMARY:Lucian N. Leustean - Religion and Forced Displacement in the Eastern Orthodox World | Sober Thought
DESCRIPTION:Religion and Forced Displacement in the Eastern Orthodox World\nThe talk examines religious mobilisation in response to forced displacement in predominantly Orthodox countries in Eastern Europe. It highlights areas of cooperation and divergence between faith-based communities and state authorities\, with a particular focus on Eastern Orthodoxy. It shows that religious communities have played a dual role. At times\, they have been among the first to respond to violence; in other cases\, the politicisation of religion has affected the ways in which church leaders and local communities have engaged with forcibly displaced populations. \nThe talk summarises the findings of the British Academy project ‘When States Fail: Forced Displacement\, Religious Diplomacy and Human Security in the Eastern Orthodox World’. \nEvent Details:\n📅 Wednesday\, 24 June 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 \nLucian N. Leustean:\nLucian N. Leustean is a Reader in Politics and International Relations at Aston University\, Birmingham\, United Kingdom. His recent publications include Religious Failure\, Geopolitics\, and Forced Displacement in Russia\, Eastern Europe\, and the South Caucasus (Central European University Press\, forthcoming 2026) and The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Europe (co-edited with Grace Davie\, Oxford University Press\, 2021). He is the Founding Editor of the Routledge Book Series Religion\, Society\, and Government in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet States. \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-leustean-religion-displacement-orthodox/
CATEGORIES:Sober Thought
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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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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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