A Psycho-Sociological Overview of Religious Life in Romania
A Psycho-Sociological Overview of Religious Life in Romania

Summary/Abstract: The thesis of this research project is that, despite the disappearance of the Communist and secular policy of implementing an atheistic worldview and life, neither the Communist regime, nor the post-socialist Romania have led to a low attendance of religion, as it supports the rational choice theory of religion (TARR), but to a new revival of it. This logic of revival manifests itself especially among younger generations who have been socialized in the new world-a-lifetime post-socialist and takes the form of different beliefs. But this is not so problematic in the last decade as it is the process of secularization that every religion and denomination has to confront. In the post-Communist era, the established church and all other denominations, despite the consolidated political power, did not gain control of the life of the young Romanian generation. In the context of the emergence of a new secular culture that structures the practices and the subjectivities of the younger generations, religious institutions articulate different strategies of counter-secularization and that makes the religious pluralistic dialogue in Romania special.

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