The Margins of European Identity Orthodox Geopolitics in Moldovan Ethnopolitics
This article presents the preliminary results of an ongoing Ph.D. project examining the interrelatedness of competing religious, nationalist and geopolitical projects in the Republic of Moldova. By looking at the local churches’ public address around key events in recent Moldovan history, it is soug...
| Published in: | Cultural and religious studies |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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David Publishing Company
2015
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| In: |
Cultural and religious studies
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| Further subjects: | B
national belonging
B Orthodox Christianity B Moldova B European Identity B canonical jurisdictions |
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| Summary: | This article presents the preliminary results of an ongoing Ph.D. project examining the interrelatedness of competing religious, nationalist and geopolitical projects in the Republic of Moldova. By looking at the local churches’ public address around key events in recent Moldovan history, it is sought to determine to which degree the local churches are mirroring the positions of the patriarchates and their hosting states. The main hypothesis is that the local churches to a larger extent than recognized in the existing literature are acting independently pursuing their local interests and forming alliances to this end. If this is the case the churches can be expected to phrase the question of national and geopolitical belonging differently from the competing Moldovanist and pan-Romanian narratives as well as the European and Eurasian projects. |
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| ISSN: | 2328-2177 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Cultural and religious studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.17265/2328-2177/2015.02.006 |