In Clandestinity: illegal religious minorities in the archives of the Securitate Cover Image

În clandestinitate: minorități religioase nerecunoscute de lege în arhivele Securității
In Clandestinity: illegal religious minorities in the archives of the Securitate

Author(s): Anca Şincan
Subject(s): History, Cultural history, Political history, Social history
Published by: Institutul de Cercetări Socio-Umane Gheorghe Şincai al Academiei Române
Keywords: underground; clandestinity; Greek Catholic; Old Calendarist Orthodox Church; Securitate; communist Romania;

Summary/Abstract: The present article discusses the terminology that the repressive state imposes on underground religious communities and the limits these terms impose on the current theoretical language researcher and communities develop for describing the religious life during the communist regime. Based on archival work with CNSAS files and on oral interviews in Greek Catholic and Old Calendarist Orthodox communities the article hypothesizes that three decades after the fall of communism we (researchers and communities alike) are still indebted to the vocabulary used by the Secret Police in the surveillance activity against the religious communities of the underground.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 22
  • Page Range: 218-231
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Romanian