Open AccessFăgăraș as Jerusalem? Interethnic and interreligious ethos in Transylvania
Author(s) -
Toroczkai C. Iulian,
Olivia Andrei
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
hts teologiese studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.282
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 2072-8050
pISSN - 0259-9422
DOI - 10.4102/hts.v73i3.4492
Subject(s) - ethos , ethnic group , nazism , value (mathematics) , communism , space (punctuation) , period (music) , gender studies , sociology , judaism , religious studies , aesthetics , political science , art , theology , anthropology , law , philosophy , linguistics , machine learning , politics , computer science
The study presents Transylvania as a space of ethnic-religious tolerance, having as a case studythe image of the town Făgăraș, as depicted in Eginald Schlattner’s novels. This space appearsas one of a heavenly nuance, based on a long tradition of coexistence of the members ofdifferent ethnic groups and religions. However, the inter-war and post-war period means theemergence of new challenges posed by the confrontation with the harmful effects of the twoideologies: Nazism and Communism. In this way, the dramas of the socio-historical contextinterweave with elements forming young Eginald. They will remain a constant in the writer’slife, offering Făgăraș the role of a forming educational array, with a paradigmatic value