Mirel Banica, Biserica Ortodoxa Romana, Stat si societate in anii '30 (Iasi: Polirom, 2007); Lucian Leuftean, "'For the Glory of Romanians': Orthodoxy and Nationalism in Greater Romania, 1918-1945", Nationalities Papers 35, 4 (September 2007): 717-742; Ionut-Florin Biliuta, "The Philosopher and
Orthodoxism. An Inquiry into the 'Ethnic Onthology' of Nae Ionescu", Studia Universitatis Petru Maior.
Naturally, instead of rational argument and critical thinking, in the late phase of the development of national myth rhetoric, one could observe the use of concepts such as "experience", "adventure", "orthodoxism", "authenticity", "living".
(25) The element of national specificity was exploited beyond reasonably accepted limits: commenting on a conference given by Mihail Sebastian, Leon Volovici tried to discover the aims of the intellectual debate concerning this issue: thus, the conflict between the traditionalist metaphysicians who adhered to the values of autochthonous peasantry and orthodoxism and the modernist and Europeanist literary critics who supported intellectualism, criticism, rationalism can be observed in the first half of the 20th century in various articles published in magazines such as Duh si slova and Kalende, respectively.
"From the Romanticism of 1848 to the Orthodoxism of the 1930s--the Mutation of Romanian Identity", Paper presented at the Seminar Culture and the Politics of Identity in Modern Romania, Bucharest, 1998.
(30) Catherine Durandin, "From the Romanticism of 1848 to the Orthodoxism of the 1930s--the Mutation of Romanian Identity", Paper presented at the Seminar Culture and the Politics of Identity in Modern Romania, Bucharest, 1998.
The fracture between the
Orthodoxism and the Catholicism does not mean, in essence, the establishment of two churches, but, to quote a Bulgakov remark, a flaw in the unique body, which continued to produce the fruits of holiness on each side.
This religious integralism is more radical than any other of the previous types of post-communist
orthodoxism: we are talking about the refusal of making the distinction between sacred and profane, the refusal of giving palpable forms to the relation between religion and day-to-day political reality.
The new nationalism added to the traditional nationalism (represented by Nicolae Iorga, Constantin Radulescu-Motru or Lucian Blaga) the anti-Semitism and the pledge towards a totalitarian state, built on
orthodoxism and the national specificity, as explains Leon Volovici or Z.
Differences in religious affiliation imply differences in religious ideological affiliations such as
orthodoxism or non-orthodoxism (a generic term encompassing all non-orthodox religious ideologies).
