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Orthodoxie et communisme dans les Balkans : réflexions sur le cas bulgare

Galia Valtchinova
p. 79-97

Abstracts

The paper examines critically the vision about the religious vacuum in the communist societies, thereby calling for a more nuanced appraisal of the post-totalitarian religious revival. With its characteristics of a Balkan and dominantly Christian-Orthodox society with latent religious conflict – on the one hand, and traditionally perceived as the most docile Soviet satellite – on the other, Bulgaria appears to be particularly appropriate for testing this vision. We try to bring together and to make intersect differents aspects of the relationship between religion and politics under socialism: the conflation of modernity, anticlericalism and secularisation; the religious implications of the modernising process under a totalitarian regime; the margins of evolution of religious life in a society that exhibits an “atheistic” ideology but in which religion continues to play a central role in the construction of national identity. After discussing these issues, we propose a more complex vision of religious life under socialism in which trends towards repression alternate with various subtle strategies for dominating the course of religious life and remodelling its expressions, thus contributing to its further evolution.

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References

Bibliographical reference

Galia Valtchinova, « Orthodoxie et communisme dans les Balkans : réflexions sur le cas bulgare », Archives de sciences sociales des religions, 119 | 2002, 79-97.

Electronic reference

Galia Valtchinova, « Orthodoxie et communisme dans les Balkans : réflexions sur le cas bulgare », Archives de sciences sociales des religions [Online], 119 | juillet - septembre 2002, Online since 05 December 2005, connection on 18 April 2024. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/assr/2781 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/assr.2781

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Galia Valtchinova

Académie bulgare des sciences – Sofia

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