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    STUDIA HISTORIA - Issue no. 1 / 2013  
         
  Article:   CONFESSIONAL COEXISTENCE AND CONFLICT IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY TRANSYLVANIA. CASE STUDY: THE MOVEMENT LED BY THE MONK SOFRONIE IN DĂBÂCA COUNTY.

Authors:  GRETA-MONICA MIRON.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  In this study, I propose a re-assessment of the confessional conflict between the Uniates and the non-Uniates during the movement led by the monk Sofronie from Cioara, by focusing on a case study – Dăbaca County – from the vantage point of confessional identity. I shall examine the strategy of the movement, the forms that the coexistence and the conflict between the parishioners and the priests took, the involvement of local power and influence holders in the formation of the confessional groups from the parishes, as well as the impact of the Uniate and non-Uniate propaganda discourses on defining the priests’ and the parishioners’ identity. I have wondered whether a bishop’s ordination and the recognition of his jurisdiction are trademarks of identity, why the priests and their parishioners considered themselves Uniate or non-Uniate, at one point or another in time, and what were the reasons for which there emerged a rift between the priests and the parishioners.

Keywords: Uniate church, confessional conflict, confessional identity, confessional coexistence, parish milieu
 
         
     
         
         
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