Социализмът в биографичен контекст: религиозната перспектива към близкото минало в България и Румъния
Socialism in a Biographical Context: the Religious Perspective on the Recent Past in Bulgaria and Romania

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the specific features of the relationship between the state and the Orthodox Church in Bulgaria and Romania after World War II. The authors show that, despite these being neighbouring socialist societies, religious activities were constructed differently in them: while in Bulgaria we see a "successful" reformulation of Orthodox cultural identity and its substitution by a secular worldview, in Romania the institutionalized forms of Christian ritual were preserved through a continuation of traditionalist policy dating from pre-socialist times. On the basis of biographical narratives about the recent past, the article describes and compares the tensions between state programmes for management of religiosity, the community strategies for slipping by the imposed dynamics of social life, and individual practices.

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