%0 Journal Article
%T Us¡± and  Them¡±. The Discourse of a  National Church¡± about  Religious Freedom¡± and  Religious Pluralism¡±
%A Raluca Dima
%J Sfera Politicii
%D 2012
%I Funda?ia Societatea Civil?
%X The paper intends to deal with the manner in which a religious actor, the Romanian Orthodox Church, elaborates and reproduces its public discourse about  religious pluralism¡±. Building on Dominique Maingueneau¡¯s notions of  generic scene¡± and  scenography¡± the analysis uses the public declarations of the Romanian Orthodox Church¡¯s clergy during the period 1990-2004 in order to illustrate the motivations, the instruments and the effects of a particular discursive behavior. The main hypothesis of this study is that the discourse about  religious pluralism¡± is a construction based on different discourses placed in an interdependent relationship, the two most important among them being the discourse about the  self¡± ( us¡±) and that about  the others¡± ( them¡±) due to their complementary/symbiotic connection.
%K Discourse
%K the Romanian Orthodox Church
%K national church
%K religious pluralism
%K proselytism
%U http://www.sferapoliticii.ro/sfera/168/art15-Dima.php