Under the Sign of the Cross: The People’s Salvation Cathedral and the Church-Building Industry in Postsocialist Romania
Giuseppe Tateo
Aug 2020 · Space and Place Book 18 · Berghahn Books
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Based on extensive ethnographic research, this book delves into the thriving industry of religious infrastructure in Romania, where 4,000 Orthodox churches and cathedrals have been built in three decades. Following the construction of the world’s highest Orthodox cathedral in Bucharest, the book brings together sociological and anthropological scholarship on eastern Christianity, secularization, urban change and nationalism. Reading postsocialism through the prism of religious change, the author argues that the emergence of political, entrepreneurial and intellectual figures after 1990 has happened ‘under the sign of the cross’.
About the author
Giuseppe Tateo is postdoctoral fellow at the New Europe College of Bucharest. He specializes in the anthropology of postsocialist Romania, Eastern Christianity and urban anthropology.
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