THE CONCEPTUALIZATION OF IDENTITIES IN THE ORTHODOX CHURCH OF BESSARABIA. THE TRANS-ETHNICAL ORTHODOXY

Irina  DERCACI

Authors

Irina DERCACI PhD candidate, West University of Timişoara, Romania. Email: irinadercaci@gmail.com.

Keywords:

trans-etnical orthodoxy, confesional belonging, ethtnic belonging, identity, Bessarabia

Abstract

The blending of the national and the religious aspects which occurred in the regions of Central and Eastern Europe has not occurred in Bessarabia, where a transethnic orthodoxy is present (the same religious values are shared due to common religious belonging, even if the ethnicity is different). Thus, it is interesting to understand which theoretical model could explain this relationship or the relationship configuration of ethnical either confessional identity which are different or overlapped in the Orthodox Church of Bessarabia. Another question is to what extent the ethos associated to the orthodox community in Bessarabia, whose distinctive feature is the ethnic diversity, can be considered to be as a model for managing the cultural diversity, a unique model in the area of Eastern Christianity, which generally has strong ethnical connotations in different countries.

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