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- Title
A RELIGIOUS COLD WAR: INHERITING THE INTERWAR US RELIGIOUS POLICY TOWARDS EASTERN EUROPE IN COMMUNIST ROMANIA.
- Authors
Șincan, Anca
- Abstract
The present article looks at the religious policy developed during the interwar period to encompass the ideological war with communist Russia that was later translated in what the literature termed the religious Cold War. It will regard this policy through the political and religious positioning of the US ambassador to Romania during the Reagan administration, David Funderburk. The article looks at the appointment of the North Carolina professor as ambassador as accomplishing the type of politics that were described by the literature as religious Cold War that reach an apogee in the Reagan years.
- Subjects
ROMANIA; COLD War, 1945-1991; RELIGIOUS wars; REAGAN, Ronald, 1911-2004; PRESIDENTIAL administrations; INTERWAR Period (1918-1939); RELIGIOUS literature
- Publication
Yearbook of the 'Gheorghe Sincai' Institute for Social Sciences & the Humanities of the Romanian Academy, 2022, Vol 25, p255
- ISSN
1454-5284
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.59277/icsugh.sincai.25.18