Art and Religious Revitalization Movements in (Post)Communist Romania: The Zidarus' 'Case'
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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21567689.2017.1327853" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21567689.2017.1327853</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21567689.2017.1327853" target="_blank" >10.1080/21567689.2017.1327853</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Art and Religious Revitalization Movements in (Post)Communist Romania: The Zidarus' 'Case'
Original language description
Little attention has been given in academic analyses of religious revitalization movements to the relationship between artistic production and cultural religious revivals. This paper aims to address this lacuna by exploring the purpose(s) and meaning(s) of artistic production in (post)-communist Romania's unofficial religious revitalization movements. Marian and Victoria Zidaru's controversial body of spiritual art and their cultic milieu' are employed as a case study. In the cultural sections of the Romanian press, the Zidarus' contested art production has either been interpreted through the lens of offensive nationalism' and protochronist nationalism' or reduced to primitive traditionalism' and cultural Rasputinism'. Against these views, the argument this paper puts forth is that the Zidarus' artistic production refashions the meanings of religion', being occasioned by a peculiar artistic prophetic activism' (as theorized by Tom Block) instantiated by a personal effort to overcome the long and disorienting transition from communism to liberal democracy, and to offer a paradigm for the socially empowering artist wholike the ancient and mediaeval prophetstruggles to provide contemporary spiritual amelioration. The Zidarus' body of prophetic art from 1985 to 2014 remains faithful to the idea that art can trigger a spiritual revolution with palliative effects.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Politics Religion and Ideology
ISSN
2156-7689
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
18
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
18
Pages from-to
157-174
UT code for WoS article
000404932800002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85037734536