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- Title: Religious Icons in Romanian Schools: Text and Context (Essay)
- Author : Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies
- Release Date : January 22, 2009
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 227 KB
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On June 11, 2008, the Romanian Supreme Court's decision concerning the right to display religious symbols in schools across Romania put an end to the legal side of a heated public debate. The dispute was sparked by a parent's protest letter in August 2006 against the practice of displaying religious icons in his daughter's school, and reached its peak between November 2006 and January 2007. Our empirical analysis is focused on this time frame. In December 2006, the Romanian media was bombarded by headlines such as: "The war of icons" (1), "The scandal of icons exiled from schools" (2), "The trial of icons part of a plan to destroy faith" (3), "The renaissance of iconoclasm, the first step to the pursuit of Christianity in Romania" (4). A web page was also created: "Save children's icons--against the discrimination of the majority" (5). The topic was mainstreamed by the Romanian media during 2007.