DIVERSITATE ETNICĂ SI CONFESIONALĂ, EVOLUȚIE ȘI MODERNIZARE ÎN ARADUL SECOLELOR XVIII-XIX
ETHNIC AND CONFESSIONAL DIVERSITY, EVOLUTION AND MODERNIZATION IN ARAD IN THE 18TH-19TH CENTURIES

Author(s): Maria Alexandra Pantea
Subject(s): History, Cultural history, Ethnohistory, Social history, Religion and science , Sociology of Religion
Published by: Editura Universităţii Vasile Goldiş
Keywords: colonization; ethnicity; religion; authorities; modernization
Summary/Abstract: The modernization process felt in parts of Arad in the 18th century is the result of the policy of the Imperial Court. Due to the measures taken by the authorities in Vienna, profound transformations took place, and from the second half of the 18th century a series of "foreign elements" penetrated the archaic Romanian rural world. The social, ethnic, and confessional situation in the Arad Plain’s localities at the beginning of the 19th century is the result of colonizations, and the modernization process. The colonization of the Romanian villages of the Arad Plain by Slovaks, Hungarians and Germans in the first half of the 19th century led to an impulse in economic development, which made modernization penetrate Romanian society in the middle of the 19th century. As a result of the measures taken by the state authorities, at the beginning of the 19th century an ethnic and confessional diversity appeared, which made ethnicity no longer confused with religion. We can see that in the 19th century and early 20th century, Romanians from parts of Arad lived alongside Serbs, Hungarians, Germans, Slovaks and Jews, but they affirmed their own national identity.

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