Open Access“Censorship of the orthodox press in communism. Case study: “Glasul wBisericii” Journal”
Author(s) -
Silviu-Constantin Nedelcu
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
saeculum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2601-1182
pISSN - 1221-2245
DOI - 10.2478/saec-2020-0007
Subject(s) - censorship , communism , romanian , law , subject (documents) , freedom of the press , media studies , soviet union , sociology , political science , classics , history , philosophy , politics , library science , linguistics , computer science
The present study treats a very little researched subject in the specialized literature, respectively the censorship of the orthodox press in communism. We turned our attention to the periodical publication “Glasul Bisericii”, the official magazine of the Metropolitan Church of Ungrovlahia. During the communist regime, the religious press was doubly censored. This was exercised by two institutions, namely: the Department of Cults and the General Directorate of Press and Printing. The censors of the Department of Cults who dealt with the journals of religious cults did not necessarily have theological studies, for which reason they could not understand certain specialized terms or phrases. This thing can be seen into the report signed by the censor Ecaterina Durosov Macheev, from 1971. Another example would be the typing mystakes that escaped from the watchful eye of censorship, and that could have affected the relations between Romanian Orthodox Church and Russian Orthodox Church and, implicitly, with the Soviet Union.