Iconoclasmul reformat. Conversia spațiilor religioase și convertirea creștinului
The Reformed Iconoclasm. The Conversion of Religious Spaces and the Conversion of the Christian Believer

Summary/Abstract: This essay is a reflection on a personal experience lived during my student years in the city of Venice. Living in front of St. Mark’s Basilica was meaningful in various ways: I have admired it as a student repeatedly during the day and I have seen it by night, working as a night watchman in the historic centre of Venice. By night, when tourists disappear, there is only the grandiose St. Mark’s Basilica and Eminescu’s poetry recited in my head like a mantra. I was amazed when I first entered the Calvinist church in Venice: a completely empty church with pale white walls. My astonishment was initially maximum. As I progressed over the years and became more and more interested in the subject of religious conversion – which is now the subject of my doctoral research – I wondered countless times whether it was possible to speak of a conversion of religious spaces. My answer now is yes, the Protestant Reformation – even in its most extreme features, such as iconoclasm – brought a conversion to places of worship that were previously Catholic. Hence the desire to know and reflect more on this conversion.

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