Marius Rotar
Biographic Data
| ID | 4101714 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marius Rotar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marius |
| FAMILY NAME | Rotar |
| SIGNATURE | ROTAR M |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1 Decembrie 1918 University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7021-4034 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cremation Under Siege
This article explores the changing meaning of cremation in late interwar Romania. From the opening of the Cenuşa Crematorium in Bucharest in 1928 to the collapse of the National Legionary State in 1941, debates about cremation moved beyond theological questions and became increasingly connected to religion, nationalism, antisemitism, and state power. Particular attention is paid to the clandestine cremation of twenty-four Legionaries after the as…
Romania and the 1948 London Summer Olympics
The communist takeover in Romania in 1948 generated a comprehensive restructuring of the nation’s political, economic, social, and cultural institutions, each systematically reconfigured in accordance with Soviet doctrinal and organisational paradigms. The domain of sport was no exception – it underwent radical transformations that decisively severed institutional and ideological continuity with the pre-communist era, including a thorough reorien…
Table tennis, Jewish issues and antisemitism in interwar Romania
The Freethinking Movement and the Feminist Issues in Romania Prior to the Outbreak of the First World War
Prior to the outbreak of World War I , the Freethinking and the Feminist movements were somewhat connected (but not overlapped) due to the new models that they promoted in society (in this situation, the improvement of the women’s condition). The Romanian Freethinking Association (founded in 1909) and The Association for Positive Education in Bucharest (founded in 1911) (as the “voices” of Romanian freethinkers) criticized vehemently the Feminist…
Cremation in Interwar Romania
This article aims to analyse the activities of Potter's Field practice in Romania as part of the Patriarch Miron Orthodox Association. From its very beginning it was orientated against the apparition of cremation in Romania, realized in the first cremation at the Cenușa Crematorium in Bucharest (1928). The target was to 'save' poor people from cremation, considering that the cremation aimed to remove from the local authorities the pressure of sup…
Rugby in Early Communist Romania
How Pure Was Romanian Rugby? Minority, Majority and Extremists in Romanian Interwar Rugby
One of the most compelling characterisations of interwar Romanian rugby was that it was once a ‘pure’ sport, played almost exclusively by ethnic Romanians. This issue is important considering the connections between nationalism, sports, and national representation in competitions during the interwar period in Romania. For Romanian rugby, the issue had also been raised in the 1930s when, in the context of the controversies surrounding the Romaniza…
On civil funerals in contemporary Romania
The first secular burial took place in Romania in 1891 (Arghir Parua, a socialist). Starting from this data, this article aims to analyse the current situation of civil funerals in Romania. Changes in the Romanian death system after the collapse of the communist regime in 1989 which required the adoption of the new funeral law (2014), are described. One of the most important regulations in this law is the acceptance of the civil funerals as equal…
Beyond the academic milieu
This introduction provides some insights on this special issue of Mortality, entitled Dying and Death in Former Communist European Countries, setting the issue against the general background of death studies and, more specifically, of death studies in eastern European countries. Some relevant references to the Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe International Conference, organised in Romania, at the ‘1 Decembrie 1918ʹ University of Alba I…
Freethinking, Freethinkers and the Jewish Question in Romania until the Outbreak of the First World War
The founding of the Romanian Free Thinkers Association (1909) prompted violent criticism against it. This arose out of a milieu influenced by the Romanian Orthodox Church targeting the Association’s anti-religious attitude. One of the allegations formulated against it was that the freethinking movement was only one facet of the wider Jewish universal conspiracy. This article aims to analyse to what extent there was a connection between the freeth…
Romanian religious environments and the development of sports in Romania in the 1930s
One of the features of interwar Romania was a quantitative and qualitative increase in sports. During this epoch, Romania followed a Western pattern, despite the significant differences between it and other European countries, for instance, in the case of its rural and illiterate population. In this context, this article aims to demonstrate how Romanian religious representatives reacted to the development of sport in Romania in the 1930s, when th…
Developing rugby in interwar Romania
The growth in interest for the historical analysis of sports in Romania has lately been focusing more on general issues or on the major sports (for instance, football). As a result, despite its early apparition in Romania (1913), and its development in comparison with other Central European countries, Rugby has been completely ignored. The aim of this article is to analyze the ways in which the development of the sport was attempted in Interwar R…
English Football in Teams in Inter-War Romania
The development of football in interwar Romania can be noticed in many ways: the growth in the number of teams and players, the growing football audiences, the increased number of international matches played abroad and at home by the national team and also by the Romanian club teams. In this respect, it is no accident that the Romanian national football team attended all the interwar editions of the World Cup (1930, 1934, and 1938). The aim of t…
On Civil and Free Marriages in Romania Before 1914
The current analysis looks at the ways in which free marriage was regarded in the Romanian society until 1914. The starting point is the change in the legal status of the institution of marriage in Romania starting with the nineteenth century. Laicization of marriage led in this way to heavy criticism from the part of the Romanian Orthodox Church. Under the influence of European models, the issue of free marriage started to gain ground in Romania…
Civil Funerals in Romania until the Outbreak of the Second World War
This paper analyses the history of non-religious, civil funerals in Romania until the outbreak of the Second World War. The topic of civil funerals is practically unknown in Romanian historiography. In 1879, the first anticlerical attempt to organise a burial outside a Church-related context failed, but triggered considerable public response. The first successful secular burial took place in 1891. The lower degree of secularisation in Romanian so…
The time that comes toward us
This article illuminates the history of the annual death conference in Alba Iulia, Romania (2007-2015), the only conference on death and dying organized in Eastern Europe. Written by the conference founder, the article tries to set out the main lines of its development over that period. Emphasis is laid on the difficulties of expanding death studies in Romania, the reaction of the wider public to the death conference, and the collaboration beyond…
The Freethought Movement in Romania until the Outbreak of the First World War
Freethought was a transnational movement that developed particularly in the second half of the nineteenth century, spreading across Europe and other world regions and promoting new models for society. The present article proposes an investigation of the contours and developments of the freethought movement in Romania before World War I. This is an important area of research given that most analyses performed to date have considered only the Weste…
Attitudes towards cremation in contemporary Romania
Cremation in Romania is shaped by several distinctive issues in comparison to Western societies, not least the existence of a single operating crematorium for 20 million inhabitants (in 2011). The most critical problem of the Romanian death system is the lack of available burial places in urban areas, a crisis that could be solved through the acceptance and expansion of cremation as an alternative solution. The goal of this paper is to analyse at…
Death inspectors or the ‘professionals’ of death during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Transylvania
This paper profiles the role of death inspectors in society and the Transylvanian death system in a historical moment, when the State's interest in medical problems increasingly became public policy. The paper highlights some aspects of death and its registration in the second half of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century in Transylvania. The main question is: who were the funerary professionals at this time? While it is possible …
The mask of the red death
This article presents an analysis of an episode which had great reverberations in Romanian society during the revolution of December 1989. It is focused on the cremation at the Cenuşa Crematorium in Bucharest of 43 bodies belonging to people who were killed in Timişoara on the 17 December 1989 during the riots against the Communist regime. The Romanian communist authorities aimed to delete the traces of the repression in Timişoara. The explanatio…
Alcoholism in Transylvania in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century and Early Twentieth Century
With few exceptions, the theme of alcoholism is almost non-existent in Romanian contemporary historiography. This draws on a number of factors more or less noteworthy such as the thematic and methodological desynchronization of Romanian historiography compared to the products of the Western historiography during the nineteenth century and up until today. On the other hand, we can speak about a pseudo-reformation of the Romanian historiography aft…
Romanian religious environments and the development of sports in Romania in the 1930s
One of the features of interwar Romania was a quantitative and qualitative increase in sports. During this epoch, Romania followed a Western pattern, despite the significant differences between it and other European countries, for instance, in the case of its rural and illiterate population. In this context, this article aims to demonstrate how Romanian religious representatives reacted to the development of sport in Romania in the 1930s, when th…
Alcoholism in Transylvania in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century and Early Twentieth Century
With few exceptions, the theme of alcoholism is almost non-existent in Romanian contemporary historiography. This draws on a number of factors more or less noteworthy such as the thematic and methodological desynchronization of Romanian historiography compared to the products of the Western historiography during the nineteenth century and up until today. On the other hand, we can speak about a pseudo-reformation of the Romanian historiography aft…
The mask of the red death
This article presents an analysis of an episode which had great reverberations in Romanian society during the revolution of December 1989. It is focused on the cremation at the Cenuşa Crematorium in Bucharest of 43 bodies belonging to people who were killed in Timişoara on the 17 December 1989 during the riots against the Communist regime. The Romanian communist authorities aimed to delete the traces of the repression in Timişoara. The explanatio…
Death inspectors or the ‘professionals’ of death during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Transylvania
This paper profiles the role of death inspectors in society and the Transylvanian death system in a historical moment, when the State's interest in medical problems increasingly became public policy. The paper highlights some aspects of death and its registration in the second half of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century in Transylvania. The main question is: who were the funerary professionals at this time? While it is possible …
Attitudes towards cremation in contemporary Romania
Cremation in Romania is shaped by several distinctive issues in comparison to Western societies, not least the existence of a single operating crematorium for 20 million inhabitants (in 2011). The most critical problem of the Romanian death system is the lack of available burial places in urban areas, a crisis that could be solved through the acceptance and expansion of cremation as an alternative solution. The goal of this paper is to analyse at…
The time that comes toward us
This article illuminates the history of the annual death conference in Alba Iulia, Romania (2007-2015), the only conference on death and dying organized in Eastern Europe. Written by the conference founder, the article tries to set out the main lines of its development over that period. Emphasis is laid on the difficulties of expanding death studies in Romania, the reaction of the wider public to the death conference, and the collaboration beyond…
The Freethought Movement in Romania until the Outbreak of the First World War
Freethought was a transnational movement that developed particularly in the second half of the nineteenth century, spreading across Europe and other world regions and promoting new models for society. The present article proposes an investigation of the contours and developments of the freethought movement in Romania before World War I. This is an important area of research given that most analyses performed to date have considered only the Weste…
Civil Funerals in Romania until the Outbreak of the Second World War
This paper analyses the history of non-religious, civil funerals in Romania until the outbreak of the Second World War. The topic of civil funerals is practically unknown in Romanian historiography. In 1879, the first anticlerical attempt to organise a burial outside a Church-related context failed, but triggered considerable public response. The first successful secular burial took place in 1891. The lower degree of secularisation in Romanian so…
Developing rugby in interwar Romania
The growth in interest for the historical analysis of sports in Romania has lately been focusing more on general issues or on the major sports (for instance, football). As a result, despite its early apparition in Romania (1913), and its development in comparison with other Central European countries, Rugby has been completely ignored. The aim of this article is to analyze the ways in which the development of the sport was attempted in Interwar R…
English Football in Teams in Inter-War Romania
The development of football in interwar Romania can be noticed in many ways: the growth in the number of teams and players, the growing football audiences, the increased number of international matches played abroad and at home by the national team and also by the Romanian club teams. In this respect, it is no accident that the Romanian national football team attended all the interwar editions of the World Cup (1930, 1934, and 1938). The aim of t…
On Civil and Free Marriages in Romania Before 1914
The current analysis looks at the ways in which free marriage was regarded in the Romanian society until 1914. The starting point is the change in the legal status of the institution of marriage in Romania starting with the nineteenth century. Laicization of marriage led in this way to heavy criticism from the part of the Romanian Orthodox Church. Under the influence of European models, the issue of free marriage started to gain ground in Romania…
Freethinking, Freethinkers and the Jewish Question in Romania until the Outbreak of the First World War
The founding of the Romanian Free Thinkers Association (1909) prompted violent criticism against it. This arose out of a milieu influenced by the Romanian Orthodox Church targeting the Association’s anti-religious attitude. One of the allegations formulated against it was that the freethinking movement was only one facet of the wider Jewish universal conspiracy. This article aims to analyse to what extent there was a connection between the freeth…
Romanian religious environments and the development of sports in Romania in the 1930s
One of the features of interwar Romania was a quantitative and qualitative increase in sports. During this epoch, Romania followed a Western pattern, despite the significant differences between it and other European countries, for instance, in the case of its rural and illiterate population. In this context, this article aims to demonstrate how Romanian religious representatives reacted to the development of sport in Romania in the 1930s, when th…
On civil funerals in contemporary Romania
The first secular burial took place in Romania in 1891 (Arghir Parua, a socialist). Starting from this data, this article aims to analyse the current situation of civil funerals in Romania. Changes in the Romanian death system after the collapse of the communist regime in 1989 which required the adoption of the new funeral law (2014), are described. One of the most important regulations in this law is the acceptance of the civil funerals as equal…
Beyond the academic milieu
This introduction provides some insights on this special issue of Mortality, entitled Dying and Death in Former Communist European Countries, setting the issue against the general background of death studies and, more specifically, of death studies in eastern European countries. Some relevant references to the Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe International Conference, organised in Romania, at the ‘1 Decembrie 1918ʹ University of Alba I…
How Pure Was Romanian Rugby? Minority, Majority and Extremists in Romanian Interwar Rugby
One of the most compelling characterisations of interwar Romanian rugby was that it was once a ‘pure’ sport, played almost exclusively by ethnic Romanians. This issue is important considering the connections between nationalism, sports, and national representation in competitions during the interwar period in Romania. For Romanian rugby, the issue had also been raised in the 1930s when, in the context of the controversies surrounding the Romaniza…
The Freethinking Movement and the Feminist Issues in Romania Prior to the Outbreak of the First World War
Prior to the outbreak of World War I , the Freethinking and the Feminist movements were somewhat connected (but not overlapped) due to the new models that they promoted in society (in this situation, the improvement of the women’s condition). The Romanian Freethinking Association (founded in 1909) and The Association for Positive Education in Bucharest (founded in 1911) (as the “voices” of Romanian freethinkers) criticized vehemently the Feminist…
Cremation in Interwar Romania
This article aims to analyse the activities of Potter's Field practice in Romania as part of the Patriarch Miron Orthodox Association. From its very beginning it was orientated against the apparition of cremation in Romania, realized in the first cremation at the Cenușa Crematorium in Bucharest (1928). The target was to 'save' poor people from cremation, considering that the cremation aimed to remove from the local authorities the pressure of sup…
Rugby in Early Communist Romania
Table tennis, Jewish issues and antisemitism in interwar Romania
Cremation Under Siege
This article explores the changing meaning of cremation in late interwar Romania. From the opening of the Cenuşa Crematorium in Bucharest in 1928 to the collapse of the National Legionary State in 1941, debates about cremation moved beyond theological questions and became increasingly connected to religion, nationalism, antisemitism, and state power. Particular attention is paid to the clandestine cremation of twenty-four Legionaries after the as…
Romania and the 1948 London Summer Olympics
The communist takeover in Romania in 1948 generated a comprehensive restructuring of the nation’s political, economic, social, and cultural institutions, each systematically reconfigured in accordance with Soviet doctrinal and organisational paradigms. The domain of sport was no exception – it underwent radical transformations that decisively severed institutional and ideological continuity with the pre-communist era, including a thorough reorien…
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