Do onto Yourself

Leading the Church in the 1970s Romania through Self-Policing and Self-Censorship

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ID6186035
AuthorsAnca Șincan (0000-0003-2588-2532, History Department, “Gheorghe Șincai” Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities, Romanian Academy, Târgu-Mureș, Romania, [email protected], corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume49
Issue2-3
Pages175-192
Publication date2022-10-19
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEast Central Europe (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-3037 • E-ISSN: 1876-3308
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.30965/18763308-49020003
OpenAlexW4307512231
LanguageEN
References cited5

The paper discusses several responses to the secret police’s (non-)involvement in religious matters that posed direct or indirect problems for the regime. The secret police’s attitude of allowing communities leeway in dealing with problematic situations had several motivations: to create a culture of self-policing and self-censorship that would defer the punishment to the hierarchical chain of the religious community; so that the community internalized the state requirements; and to infiltrate the community with collaborators in positions of power. Self-punishing and self-censorship were the ways in which communities respected the regulations imposed by the state. The literature on the subject in Romania is scarce and comes mostly from primary texts (memoir, journals, and various histories of religious communities). The article presents a case study of the Sibiu Orthodox Metropolitan See in its interactions with the secret police

Censorship · Criminology · Memoir · Political science · Power (physics) · Punishment (psychology) · Self · Sociology · State (computer science) · Computer Science · Historical and Architectural Studies · Law · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Social Psychology · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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