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Revista Horeb, Nr 3. Editura Horeb, Husi, 2021
While people experience their migration journey primarily as social and cultural 'change' (someti... more While people experience their migration journey primarily as social and cultural 'change' (sometimes also perceived as 'challenge'), a significant aspect of the change (challenge) that migration heralds is also related to the religious identity of migrants. The change is sometimes expressed as 'adaptation', other times as 'resistance', but it can also manifest as 'abandonment' or 'indifference'. These aspects are particularly relevant in the case of Romanian migration, which is largely Orthodox in its religious affiliation, young in its demographic, and second only to Polish migration, after the 1990s, in its numbers. Change in the social order engenders change in the religious order. With this in mind, this article investigates the relationship between migration and change, with specific focus on Romanian Orthodox migrants in the UK. It highlights the features of that change for the religious identity of Romanian Orthodox and provides the initial terms of a possible taxonomy of religious change for this community in the West, specifically in the UK.
Biserica și Statul: perspective diacronice asupra unei relații polivalente, Răzvan Brudiu Mihail K. Qaramah (eds)., Doxologia, 2023
Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021
This paper aims to offer a theological taxonomy vis-à-vis the practice of pilgrimage. The taxonom... more This paper aims to offer a theological taxonomy vis-à-vis the practice of pilgrimage. The taxonomy is constructed around three theological imperatives: that of Revelation, of the Incarnation, and the Sacramental. Acknowledging the polymorphic nature of pilgrimages, as religious, social, and ethno-cultural events which invite multi-layered investigation, this paper proposes an interdisciplinary bridging exercise by translating these theological imperatives into language that can be related to the sociological, anthropological, or ethnographic approach to pilgrimage, in order to highlight some interdisciplinary points of correspondence. The paper also touches on issues of secularization, the negotiation of public space by the religious event, and queries the role of the Church—particularly in the Eastern Orthodox context—in translating or inhibiting the translation of said theological imperatives in the wider social milieu.
Religions, Mar 28, 2024
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative... more This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY
Revista Horeb, Nr 3. Editura Horeb, Husi, 2021
While people experience their migration journey primarily as social and cultural 'change' (someti... more While people experience their migration journey primarily as social and cultural 'change' (sometimes also perceived as 'challenge'), a significant aspect of the change (challenge) that migration heralds is also related to the religious identity of migrants. The change is sometimes expressed as 'adaptation', other times as 'resistance', but it can also manifest as 'abandonment' or 'indifference'. These aspects are particularly relevant in the case of Romanian migration, which is largely Orthodox in its religious affiliation, young in its demographic, and second only to Polish migration, after the 1990s, in its numbers. Change in the social order engenders change in the religious order. With this in mind, this article investigates the relationship between migration and change, with specific focus on Romanian Orthodox migrants in the UK. It highlights the features of that change for the religious identity of Romanian Orthodox and provides the initial terms of a possible taxonomy of religious change for this community in the West, specifically in the UK.
Biserica și Statul: perspective diacronice asupra unei relații polivalente, Răzvan Brudiu Mihail K. Qaramah (eds)., Doxologia, 2023
Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021
This paper aims to offer a theological taxonomy vis-à-vis the practice of pilgrimage. The taxonom... more This paper aims to offer a theological taxonomy vis-à-vis the practice of pilgrimage. The taxonomy is constructed around three theological imperatives: that of Revelation, of the Incarnation, and the Sacramental. Acknowledging the polymorphic nature of pilgrimages, as religious, social, and ethno-cultural events which invite multi-layered investigation, this paper proposes an interdisciplinary bridging exercise by translating these theological imperatives into language that can be related to the sociological, anthropological, or ethnographic approach to pilgrimage, in order to highlight some interdisciplinary points of correspondence. The paper also touches on issues of secularization, the negotiation of public space by the religious event, and queries the role of the Church—particularly in the Eastern Orthodox context—in translating or inhibiting the translation of said theological imperatives in the wider social milieu.
Religions, Mar 28, 2024
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative... more This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY