Thirty Years Later: The Pentecostal Church in Romania and Religious Freedom in the Post-Communist Era

The aim of the present paper is to provide a brief presentation of the evolution of religious freedom in Romania since the 1989 Revolution from the perspective of a Pentecostal believer. To better understand what this event meant for this denomination, first the situation of the Pentecostal movement...

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Published in:Occasional papers on religion in Eastern Europe
Main Author: Ștefănică, Dragoș (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: George Fox University 2019
In: Occasional papers on religion in Eastern Europe
Year: 2019, Volume: 39, Issue: 7, Pages: 34-44
Further subjects:B Romanian Revolution
B communist regime
B Pentecostal Church in Romania
B Religious Freedom
B Persecution
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Summary:The aim of the present paper is to provide a brief presentation of the evolution of religious freedom in Romania since the 1989 Revolution from the perspective of a Pentecostal believer. To better understand what this event meant for this denomination, first the situation of the Pentecostal movement in the interwar and communist times will be presented, and then survey the changes brought by the fall of the communist regime and how religious freedom evolved in the past three decades.
ISSN:2693-2148
Contains:Enthalten in: Occasional papers on religion in Eastern Europe