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Record Nr.

UNINA9910586581403321

Autore

Guglielmi Marco

Titolo

The Romanian Orthodox Diaspora in Italy : Eastern Orthodoxy in a Western European Country / / by Marco Guglielmi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022

ISBN

9783031071027

9783031071010

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (179 pages)

Collana

Religion and Global Migrations, , 2945-6401

Disciplina

304.8

281.9498

Soggetti

Orthodox Eastern Church

Italy - History

Ethnology - Europe

Culture

Eastern Orthodoxy

History of Italy

European Culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Development of an Orthodox Christian Panorama in Italy -- Chapter 3: A (Eastern) Latin Church in a (Western) Latin Country -- Chapter 4: Manifold Bonds between Motherland and New Home -- Chapter 5: Epilogue: Towards a Western European Orthodoxy?

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides a sociological understanding of transformations within Eastern Orthodoxy and the settlement of Orthodox diasporas in Western Europe. Building a fresh framework on religion and migration through the lenses of religious glocalization, it explores the Romanian Orthodox diaspora in Italy as a case study in the experience of Eastern Orthodoxy in a Western European country. The research brings to light the Romanian Orthodox diaspora’s reshaping of the more customary social traditionalism largely spread within Eastern Orthodoxy. In its position as an immigrant group and religious minority, the Romanian



Orthodox diaspora develops socio-cultural and religious encounters with the receiving environment and engages with certain contemporary challenges. This book refutes the vague image of Orthodox Christianity as a monolithic religious system composed of passive religious institutions, rather showing current Orthodox diasporas as flexible agents marked by dynamic features.