2023, Volume 5
RELIGIOSITY AND AUTOETHNOGRAPHY. PROSPECTING THE LIFE – NARRATIVES OF TWO ROMANIAN ROMA FROM
POST-COMMUNIST ROMANIA
Marian Zăloagă, Scientific Researcher, Ph.D., “Gheorghe Şincai” Institute of Socio-Human Research of the Romanian Academy
Abstract
Studies on the religion and the religiosity of Roma people represent a significant part of the Romani research published during the last decades. Unlike the interviews used by the non – Roma social scientists, the texts I am addressing in the present article are more elaborate ingroup voices of Roma elites. They are more sophisticated in tackling the religiosity matters and are, purposely or not, contributing to the transnational Roma literature. Their reading allows access to the voice of two Romanian Roma elites who approach the matter of fighting racism not only from their own lived religion experience but also from the perspective of the relatives and friends recollected in the pages of the autoethnographically writings.
Keywords: Romanian Roma identity; autoethnography; religion, religiosity
Pages: 113-148