Abstract
This chapter deals with another important segment of the Hungarian institutional network, the churches. It provides statistics about the religious distribution of the Hungarian community and the frequency of various religious practices, discusses the institutional network operated by the Hungarian churches and some of the most important religious movements. In Romania, and among Transylvanian Hungarians too, ecclesiastical religiosity is very high in a European comparison, and churches play a relatively important role in society. Also, in Transylvania the religious and ethnic cleavage reinforce each other. The institutions and organizations operated by the Hungarian churches—especially in the domain of education, social and health care—are constituent parts of the institutional network that sustains ethnic parallelism, and as such, are important tools of community building.
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As a comparison, in Hungary the proportion of those who do not belong to any of the denominations is of 18%.
- 2.
The survey Turning Points of our Life-courses, second wave, was carried out in cooperation with the Demographic Research Institute of the Hungarian Statistical Office. See http://demografia.hu/hu/tudastar/adatbazisok/22-adatbazisok/160-eletunk-fordulopontjai.
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In Romania, there are two Lutheran churches. The Evanghelic-Lutheran Church is a primarily Hungarian-speaking denomination, with Slovak-speaking parishes. The Evanghelic Church of Augustan Confession is German-speaking. The overwhelming majority of Transylvania’s Saxons used to belong to this latter Church.
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In this and the next section, I relied primarily on the webpages of the churches under discussion.
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These parishes are located in Bacău, Galați and Râmnicu Vâlcea and Bucharest (two parishes).
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On the issue of Catholics in Moldova see Chapter 10 (Demographic Dynamics and Ethnic Classification) of this volume.
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On personal parishes see: http://resurrectioncatholic.church/personal-parish/.
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See a short presentation on the history of the organization on the webpage of the Transylvanian Unitarian Church: http://unitarius.org/szerkezet/unitarius-nok-orszagos-szovetsege/ (Accessed on 2 February 2018).
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See a short presentation on the history of the organization on the webpage of the Transylvanian Reformed Bishopric: http://www.reformatus.ro/20141209noszovetseg.html (Accessed on 2 February 2018).
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The Hungarian-language professional training in Cluj/Kolozsvár and Oradea/Nagyvárad was reorganized in the framework of religious institutions.
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On the activity of the Charity Service of the Order of Malta, see their webpage: http://www.maltez.ro/index-hu.php.
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On the activity of the Saint Francis Foundation, see their webpage: http://szentferencalapitvany.org/.
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On the activity of the Csibész Foundation, see their webpage: http://www.csibesz.ro/wordpress/hu/.
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On the activity of the Diakónia Christian Foundation, see their webpage: http://www.diakonia.ro/index_hu.php.
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On the activity of the Bonus Pastor Foundation, see their webpage: http://bonuspastor.ro/rolunk/.
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On the activity of the CE Union, see their webpage: http://ce-union.ro/ce/index.php/hu/szolgalataink/diakonia/dorcasotthon.
- 17.
On the activity of the Christian Gipsy Mission Foundation, see their webpage: http://www.gipsymission.com/.
- 18.
On the financial aid channeled to Transylvania by the Hungarian state (described as a strategy of material outbidding) see the relevant sections of Chapter 3 of this volume.
- 19.
The structure of the minority institutional system in the interwar era is discussed in Chapter 2.
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Kiss, D. (2018). Churches and Religious Life. In: Kiss, T., Székely, I., Toró , T., Bárdi, N., Horváth, I. (eds) Unequal Accommodation of Minority Rights. Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78893-7_7
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