ABSTRACT

The neo-Protestants- Baptists, Brethren, Pentecostals, and Seventh-day Adventists- were rapidly growing religious minorities amidst the ethnic majority in interwar Romania. Using a combined anthropological and historical approach, the study unpacks the way these groups constructed their communities in response to internal and external pressures, changing the way they interpreted the Bible and how they used these interpretations to create space for themselves in the religious and cultural spheres of Greater Romania. By reading the words of the Bible, speaking them through conversion accounts, and then singing the words, they revealed an entanglement between increased personal agency and community dependency. An analysis of the concepts of ritual, aesthetics, and language contribute to a better understanding of the complexity of interwar Romanian society through the lens of neo-Protestant religious communities. Their development and the ensuing reaction from authorities in the form of legalized suppression reveal them to be an important expression of religious modernity in twentieth-century Europe.

摘要

新教徒-浸信会，弟兄会，五旬节派和基督复临安息日会-在两次世界大战之间的罗马尼亚，是占多数的少数民族中迅速成长的宗教少数派。该研究使用人类学和历史学相结合的方法，揭示了这些群体应对内外部压力的方式构建社区的方式，改变了他们解释圣经的方式以及他们如何使用这些解释在宗教和文化领域为自己创造空间大罗马尼亚共和国。通过阅读圣经中的文字，通过conversion依的口头讲出来，然后唱歌，他们发现个人代理与社区依赖性增加之间存在纠缠。对礼仪，美学，语言和语言有助于通过新教徒的宗教团体更好地理解两次世界大战之间罗马尼亚社会的复杂性。它们的发展以及随之而来的当局以合法镇压形式的反应表明，它们是二十世纪欧洲宗教现代性的重要体现。