Aspecte ale discursului public al Bisericii Ortodoxe Române după 1989: (auto)-secularizarea
Aspects of the public discourse of the Romanian Orthodox Church after 1989: (self)-secularization.

Summary/Abstract: After the fall of communism, the Romanian Orthodox Church engaged in the reconstruction of its public identity. This change is implicitly transmitted, for example, in the official discourses of its official representatives that this paper undertakes to scrutinize. Thus, in order to legitimize the resurgence of religion (and in particular of the Orthodox Church) in the public sphere, the Church itself is presented not only as a preserver of national values and as a socially relevant and spiritually prominent institution, but also as an “implicit actor of civil society”. Yet by following the modern secular logic in the social justification of its own existence, and despite the fact that its representatives publicly decry and/or refuse to acknowledge any signs of secularization within the Romanian society, the Romanian Orthodox Church might be actually contributing to the deepening of this very process both within society as a whole and within the Church itself.

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