The Politics of Rite: Jesuit, Uniate, and Romanian Ethnicity in Eighteenth-Century Transylvania
Oldson examines the efforts of religious authorities in Western Europe to reconstruct a Catholic majority in Transylvania after the Ottoman Empire ceded control of the region. These attempts sparked a pronounced sense of Romanian historical consciousness that resulted in an impassioned religious and cultural resistance, centering on the Eastern liturgy.
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The Politics of Rite: Jesuit, Uniate, and Romanian Ethnicity in Eighteenth-Century Transylvania
Oldson examines the efforts of religious authorities in Western Europe to reconstruct a Catholic majority in Transylvania after the Ottoman Empire ceded control of the region. These attempts sparked a pronounced sense of Romanian historical consciousness that resulted in an impassioned religious and cultural resistance, centering on the Eastern liturgy.
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The Politics of Rite: Jesuit, Uniate, and Romanian Ethnicity in Eighteenth-Century Transylvania

The Politics of Rite: Jesuit, Uniate, and Romanian Ethnicity in Eighteenth-Century Transylvania

by William Oldson
The Politics of Rite: Jesuit, Uniate, and Romanian Ethnicity in Eighteenth-Century Transylvania

The Politics of Rite: Jesuit, Uniate, and Romanian Ethnicity in Eighteenth-Century Transylvania

by William Oldson

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Oldson examines the efforts of religious authorities in Western Europe to reconstruct a Catholic majority in Transylvania after the Ottoman Empire ceded control of the region. These attempts sparked a pronounced sense of Romanian historical consciousness that resulted in an impassioned religious and cultural resistance, centering on the Eastern liturgy.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780880335645
Publisher: East European Monographs
Publication date: 11/16/2005
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 5.80(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

William O. Oldson is professor of history and director of the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience at Florida State University.
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