The Role of Intellectuals in the Religious Education of Children and Youngsters in Communist Romania
The Role of Intellectuals in the Religious Education of Children and Youngsters in Communist Romania

Author(s): Ciprian Corneliu Ciurea
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Sociology of Religion
Published by: Scientia Moralitas Research Institute
Keywords: church; neo-Protestant; intellectuals
Summary/Abstract: Immediately after coming to power, communist regime aimed at creating an atheist society, slowly but surely. As it was an exclusive “religion”, which could not accept another one around it, the communism became “the enemy of any other form of religion, and in particular of Christianity” (Bardyaev 1960, 158). Becoming aware that with adults they could not achieve their goals, communism accepted the idea that it should “bear” the adults’ convictions and mindset and focus on the younger generations to stop the forwarding of religious beliefs.

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