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- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright
- © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
- ISBN
- 978-3-030-56254-0
- Pages
- 1 –34
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-56255-7_1
- Publisher site
- See Chapter on Publisher Site
Abstract
[The chapter introduces the landmarks in the study of arts, politics and religion in communist and post-communist Romania, focusing on a twofold underexplored relationship: political art and religion, and religion-inspired art and politics. The main argument put forth is that art, politics and religion intermingle in various ways and to various ends—both during Romanian national communism and after its collapse in 1989. The cultural production of religious inspiration alludes to a peculiar form of cultural memory—longing for a spiritual state of humankind (a symbolic Paradise Lost)—that can also be employed as a revitalization of the soul against a background of atomization and alienation of modern lifestyle, overlapping injustices, political violence and economic precariousness.]
Published: Oct 23, 2020
Keywords: Spiritual revitalization; Religion-inspired art in communist Romania; Political art and religion; Religion and art in post-communist Romania