Through the Iron Curtain : : The Taizé Ecumenical Experience in Eastern Europe (1960-1989) / / Silvia Scatena and Dietrich Sagert (editors).

• Superior document: Fscire Research and Papers
• TeilnehmendeR: Scatena, Silvia,; Sagert, Dietrich,
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen, Germany : : V&R Unipress,, [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Fscire research and papers.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (0 pages)

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Body
• List of Abbreviations
• Acronyms
• Archives and Sources
• Brother Alois, prior of the Taizé Community: Foreword
• Silvia Scatena: Through the Iron Curtain: The Taizé Ecumenical Experience in Eastern Europe (1960-1989)
• 1. An Instantly Unified European Space
• 2. A Multifarious and Heterogenous Christianity
• 3. At the Origins of a Project
• 4. "We Felt Hope Close Beside Us"
• Bibliography
• Dietrich Sagert: German Democratic Republic
• 1. The Berlin Wall
• 2. 1956: First Contacts
• 3. Hirschluch from 1962
• 4. Dresden, 1980: First Meeting with Brother Roger
• 5. Schwerin, 1981: Second Meeting with Brother Roger
• 6. Magdeburg, 1982: Third Meeting with Brother Roger
• 7. Dresden, 1984: Fourth Meeting with Brother Roger
• 8. Return Visits
• 9. Berlin, 1986: Fifth Meeting with Brother Roger
• 10. The Peaceful Revolution
• Bibliography
• Elzbieta Agnieszka Rafalowska: Poland
• 1. The Discovery of Taizé and the Years of Vatican II
• 2. The First Visit of Brothers to Poland in the Decade of the Council of Youth
• 3. The First Groups Inspired by the Taizé Community
• 4. The First Visits of Young Poles to France
• 5. The 1980s: the Decade of Large Groups Involved in the Pilgrimage of Trust
• Bibliography
• Ferenc Hardi: Hungary
• 1. The Historical Context
• 2. The First Contacts
• 2.1 Migration of People, Migration of Ideas
• 2.2 At the Beginning of the 1960s, a First "Mythical" Meeting
• 2.3 The First Hungarians in Taizé
• 3. How to Go Unnoticed?
• 3.1 Brother Rudolf in Hungary
• 3.2 The Benedictines of Pannonhalma
• 3.3 A Strange Meeting
• 3.4 Hidden Vocations
• 4. "I Will Give Him a White Stone"
• 4.1 In the Secret of the Family
• 4.2 Visits of Volunteers to Hungary and Young Hungarians to Taizé.
• 4.3 The Council of Youth in the Christian Press in Hungary
• 4.4 The White Stone
• 5. After the Council of Youth
• 5.1 The Songs of Taizé in Hungary
• 5.2 The Letter from Taizé
• 5.3 Meetings in the East
• 5.4 Parallel Paths and the Search for Communion
• 6. The Silent Visit of Brother Roger
• 6.1 The Harvest is Abundant
• 6.2 Invisible Limits
• 6.3 Leaping Over the Walls
• 7. New Horizons
• 7.1 A Space of Freedom
• 7.2 The Question of Visas Again
• 7.3 Towards the Meeting in Pécs
• 7.4 An Intense Preparation
• 7.5 A Springtime of the Church in Hungary
• 8. And the Journey Continues
• Bibliography
• Marianna Drábiková / Mária Medveczká: Czechoslovakia
• 1. Brief Introduction to the History of the Czechoslovakian Churches
• 2. The First Contacts
• 2.1 Jan Merrell and the Christian Peace Conference
• 2.2 Alfréd Kocáb and First Contacts with the Evangelical Church
• 2.3 Visits to the CSSR by Brother Rudolf and Other Members of the Community
• 2.4 Czechs and Slovaks in Taizé
• 2.5 The Kaplan Family
• 2.6 Literature, its Translations and Distribution
• 2.7 Silvester Krčméry and the "Camps"
• 2.8 Visits of the Volunteers and Other Friends of the Community
• 3. The Late 1970s and the 1980s
• 3.1 Participation in Meetings in Other Eastern Bloc Countries
• 3.2 New Visits to Taizé at the End of the 1970s
• 3.3 Growth of Common Knowledge About Taizé in the Late 1970s and the 1980s
• 3.4 Pavol Kaločaj and the Activities in Bratislava
• 3.5 Brother Roger's First Visit to Prague (1981)
• 3.6 Prayers in Different Areas of Czechoslovakia
• 3.7 Youth Meetings in the Countryside
• 3.8 Family Meetings
• 4. The Loosening of Restrictions
• 4.1 Brother Roger's Second Visit to Prague (1988)
• 4.2 The Presence of Czechs and Slovaks in Meetings Abroad
• 4.3 The European Meeting in Prague (1990-1).
• 4.4 Continuation: First Steps in the New Situation
• Bibliography
• István Csonta / Jaume Casassas / Alexandru-Marius Crişan: Romania
• 1. The Beginning and the 1960s
• 2. The 1970s
• 3. The 1980s
• 4. January 1990: Brother Roger's visit to Bucharest
• 5. After 1990
• Bibliography
• Brother Luc of Taizé / Zrinka Zubić / Klemen Kastelic / Milesa Stefanović-Banović / Theodor Avramov: Yugoslavia
• 1. The Yugoslavian Mosaic
• 2. Croatia
• 2.1 First Contacts in the 1960s
• 2.1.1 Cardinal Franjo —eper and Brother Roger
• 2.1.2 Taizé in the Religious Press in Croatia
• 2.1.3 Taizé and Krćanska sadanjost
• 2.2 Mutual Visits in the Late 1960s and 1970s
• 2.2.1 The First Individual Visits
• 2.2.2 Taizé Volunteers and Brother John in Croatia
• 2.2.3 Veritas and the First Organised Youth Groups
• 2.3 Organised Group Visits in the 1980s
• 2.3.1 Groups from Rijeka and Istria
• 2.3.2 Groups from Zagreb and the Continental Part of Croatia
• 2.3.3 Numerous Visits by Brothers and Taizé Volunteers
• 2.3.4 Groups from Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 2.4 Fruits of the Taizé Experience
• 3. Slovenia
• 3.1 From Individual Visits to Large Groups of Slovenes in Taizé (1963-79)
• 3.2 Crowds of Slovenes in Taizé and the Visit of Brother Roger to Stična (1979-84)
• 3.3 Slovene Volunteers in Taizé and the Idea of a European Meeting in Yugoslavia (1984-7)
• 3.4 East-West Meeting in Ljubljana in 1987
• 3.5 The Last Years of Yugoslavia (1987-90)
• 3.6 By way of conclusion
• 4. Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia
• 4.1 An Overview of State Politics Before the First Taizé Visit
• 4.2 The First Visit of the Brothers: Brother Roger in Belgrade
• 4.3 The 1970s
• 4.4 The 1980s
• Bibliography
• Theodor Avramov: Bulgaria
• 1. Brief Introduction to State/Church Relations at the Dawn of Communism
• 2. The 1960s
• 2.1 First Visit.
• 2.2 A Closer Examination of the Context
• 2.3 Dometian and Damaskinos in Taizé
• 2.4 Background
• 3. The 1970s
• 4. The 1980s
• 5. The 1990s
• Bibliography
• Olga Erokhina / Brother Luc of Taizé / Brother Charles-Eugène of Taizé: The Soviet Union
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Brother Roger and Russia
• 3. First Contacts
• 4. "Official" Relations
• 5. The 1970s: "Building Bridges Across the Abyss"
• 6. Brother Roger in Moscow and Leningrad (1978)
• 7. In Russia during the 1980s
• 8. In the Baltic Countries
• 9. In Ukraine
• 10. Glasnost and Perestroika
• 11. Brother Roger in Moscow, Kiev, Yaroslavl (1988): A Million New Testaments in Russian
• 12. A Completely New Period
• Bibliography
• Figures
• Name Index.