...This chapter addresses the transformation of the religious landscape in Soviet Moldavia from the perspective of gender dynamics. Based on the testimonies of a group of women from the Turkish-speaking Gagauz Orthodox Christian minority, I explore their responses to the Khrushchev-era anti-religious...

...This chapter investigates the evolution of the Orthodox Church in the Romanian-inhabited territories of Wallachia, Moldavia, Transylvania, Bukovina and Bessarabia. The 1859 union between the principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia under the rule of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza (1859-1866...