Overview
- Situated at the intersection of anthropology of Christianity, anthropology of ethics
- Offers a unique view of the Hungarian Catholic minority within Romania’s Orthodox majority
- Dedicates critical space to consider how and why intellectuals make an ethical nation
Part of the book series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion (CAR)
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About this book
Set against the backdrop of the rise of right-wing Christian nationalism in Eastern Europe, this book declares that Catholic theologians ought to be understood and studied as intellectuals: socially and historically situated creators of national cultural traditions. While the Romanian government funds thriving schools for the country’s Hungarian minority, NGOs founded by Transylvanian Hungarians continue to organize volunteers to supplement this formal pedagogy. These volunteers understand themselves to be reviving a national tradition of “serving the people” by educating the region’s rural Hungarian populace.
While this book is about the challenges Catholic educators face in teaching villagers, it is just as much about their new effort to call groups of volunteers from across the border in Hungary to teach alongside them. In these encounters, Transylvanian Hungarian educators remake their intellectual tradition, especially ideas about the basis of pedagogical authority, the ethical character of the nation, and the social location of selfhood. When contemporary Catholic intellectuals urge teachers to manifest their national self-consciousness, they carry with them the assumption that selfhood emerges where humans collaborate with God. While Transylvanian Hungarian intellectuals are enmeshed in constant competition, by focusing on contemporary theologians New Magyar Apostles unmasks the struggle over the nature of divine presence that animates this revival of a Christian national tradition of intellectual service.Reviews
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About the author
Marc Roscoe Loustau is Managing Editor of the Journal of Global Catholicism and an affiliate with the Catholics & Cultures Program at College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Hungarian Catholic Intellectuals in Contemporary Romania
Book Subtitle: Reforming Apostles
Authors: Marc Roscoe Loustau
Series Title: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99221-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-99220-0Published: 28 June 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-99223-1Published: 29 June 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-99221-7Published: 27 June 2022
Series ISSN: 2946-3475
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3483
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 265
Topics: Religious Studies, general, Social Anthropology, Catholicism