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...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
[2020]
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European journal of jewish studies
Year: 2020, Volume: 14, Issue: 1, Pages: 27-53 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Romania
/ Free thinker's association
/ Jews
/ Emancipation
/ Free thinker
/ Rejection of
/ Violent behavior
/ Rumänisch-Orthodoxe Kirche
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IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion BH Judaism KBK Europe (East) |
Further subjects: | B
Anti-semitism
B Secularization B Judeo-Masonic conspiracy B freethinking B Romance language area |
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Summary: | 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 freethinking movement in Romania and the Jewish question. The main argument set forward in this article is that the Romanian freethinkers struggled to dismantle these accusations, while attempting to act towards Jewish emancipation in Romania as part of their wider program to transform society. |
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ISSN: | 1872-471X |
Contains: | Enthalten in: European journal of jewish studies
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/1872471X-11411080 |