The Ideology of the Hungarian Catholic ‘Bokor’ Movement through the Writings of György Bulányi, 1970s–1980s
In the 1970s, a new Catholic movement called the Bokor emerged in Hungary, and, with its few thousand followers, became a prominent actor in the semi-official or unofficial Catholic ‘underground.’ The members of the Bokor fashioned the movement as a truly apolitical phenomenon, but at the same time...
| Published in: | Journal of religion in Europe |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2015
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Journal of religion in Europe
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Religious policy
Communism
Catholicism
Political Theology
Hungary
East-Central Europe
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| Summary: | In the 1970s, a new Catholic movement called the Bokor emerged in Hungary, and, with its few thousand followers, became a prominent actor in the semi-official or unofficial Catholic ‘underground.’ The members of the Bokor fashioned the movement as a truly apolitical phenomenon, but at the same time the movement was diagnosed by the communist regime as a political threat and was treated accordingly. This essay focuses on the main characteristics of the Bokor’s ideology in terms of political theology and ecclesiology, and seeks to grasp the interconnectedness of this ideology and the communist religious policy practiced in Hungary in the 1970s and 1980s. The author argues that the Bokor’s ideology was a more or less explicit critique of the contemporary religious political setting. The ideology of the movement thus represented a form of political dissent, which was mainly expressed in religious terms. |
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| ISSN: | 1874-8929 |
| Contains: | In: Journal of religion in Europe
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18748929-00804005 |