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Abstract: Between Abstinence and Abundance in Search of Identity. On the Nourishment of the Clergy of Blaj in the 18th Century. The present study analyses the manner in which the Romanians and their church related to tradition, their so-called "ancestral religion," in the eighteenth century (the period when they defined their own church and confession) through the investigation of the religious fast, that is, that most visible aspect of the practices of religious life. The fast was also the Transylvanian Romanians'' dissociative identity resource. It was used to great effect when the priests of the Uniate, or Greek Catholic, Church were accused by the Orthodox monks Visarion and Sofronie of not respecting church tradition, that is, the "ancestral religion," by "breaking the fasts." In reply, the Uniates avoided diminishing the strictness of the Eastern practice of alimentary abstinence because they did not want to be accused of introducing innovations and disrupting the Romanian religion. The diachronic changes recorded during the period led to the elimination of the Transylvanian Romanians'' unique church monopoly through the formal re-establishment of the Orthodox Church in 1761.This was the reason for the gradual separation of the Uniate Church from the exclusively Eastern rigors -particularly at the level of the fast-during the episcopate of Bishop Grigorie Maior. |
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