Spiritualità, identitâ e minoranze religiose nella Romania ortodossa.

This paper examines the socio-political and religious dialectics of spirituality in post-communist Romania. Starting from a statistic evaluation of the distribution and subdivision of the Churches on Romanian territory, the paper studies the religious factor as a systemic element for understanding the deep relationship between people and "national belonging", understood as a relevant key of social self-representation. The close link with the historic-religious past of Romanians, partly obscured during the years of socialism, re-emerges after the collapse of the communist regime through specific forms: the monastic life, studies on the lives of saints, the history of Romanian Orthodoxy, are used for strengthening the bond between people and tradition in a new context, coinciding with the entry into the European Union. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]