Art and Religious Revitalization Movements in (Post)Communist Romania: The Zidarus' 'Case'

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Výsledek na webu

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Art and Religious Revitalization Movements in (Post)Communist Romania: The Zidarus' 'Case'

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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&apos;s unofficial religious revitalization movements. Marian and Victoria Zidaru&apos;s controversial body of spiritual art and their cultic milieu&apos; are employed as a case study. In the cultural sections of the Romanian press, the Zidarus&apos; contested art production has either been interpreted through the lens of offensive nationalism&apos; and protochronist nationalism&apos; or reduced to primitive traditionalism&apos; and cultural Rasputinism&apos;. Against these views, the argument this paper puts forth is that the Zidarus&apos; artistic production refashions the meanings of religion&apos;, being occasioned by a peculiar artistic prophetic activism&apos; (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&apos; body of prophetic art from 1985 to 2014 remains faithful to the idea that art can trigger a spiritual revolution with palliative effects.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Art and Religious Revitalization Movements in (Post)Communist Romania: The Zidarus' 'Case'

Popis výsledku anglicky

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&apos;s unofficial religious revitalization movements. Marian and Victoria Zidaru&apos;s controversial body of spiritual art and their cultic milieu&apos; are employed as a case study. In the cultural sections of the Romanian press, the Zidarus&apos; contested art production has either been interpreted through the lens of offensive nationalism&apos; and protochronist nationalism&apos; or reduced to primitive traditionalism&apos; and cultural Rasputinism&apos;. Against these views, the argument this paper puts forth is that the Zidarus&apos; artistic production refashions the meanings of religion&apos;, being occasioned by a peculiar artistic prophetic activism&apos; (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&apos; body of prophetic art from 1985 to 2014 remains faithful to the idea that art can trigger a spiritual revolution with palliative effects.

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J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2017

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Politics Religion and Ideology

ISSN

2156-7689

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

18

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

18

Strana od-do

157-174

Kód UT WoS článku

000404932800002

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85037734536