标题：RELIGION AND DENOMINATION IN LAPUS LAND – STRUCTURAL-EVOLUTIONARY CHARACTERISTICS AND SPECIFIC REGIONAL MANIFESTATIONS WITHIN THE HISTORIC-POLITICAL CONTEXT OF THE LAST 150 YEARS
摘要：The detailed analysis of the denominational aspects specific to Lapus Land points out a denominational structure much more varied than the national one and which is submitted during certain periods to some inherent variations of the rates related to each cultural group and sometimes submitted to some conflicting mutations. These determined, in an initial period (coinciding with the XVIIth century and especially with the XVIIIth and the XIXth centuries), the gradual increasing of the denominational disparity degree and of the parameter of religious differentiation, consequence of the unchanging actions in attracting the Romanians to the religious conversion to the Uniat religion after 1701 and in colonizing some inconstant population groups living in the kingdom area, which turned into an empire afterwards, undertaken by the Hungarian Crown and by the Wien Court. Yet, the purpose of all these actions was insignificantly reached without succeeding in taking into pieces the religions specific to the Romanian population, widely dominant at the Lapus area’s scale during all this period. In return, after the absorption of the Uniat Church by the traditional Orthodox Church – produced after the juridical act in 1948 with the political contest of the ruling communist polity – we were witnesses to an adverse evolution, marked by an obvious tendency of homogenizing the denominational structures and reducing adequately the parameter of religious differentiation. In order to wonder the main tendencies which have configured the religious phenomenon’s evolution in Lapus Land (marked by numerous variations in different historical periods), we expanded the analysis of the denominational aspects during 150 years (1850-2002). Practically all the registrations performed during this period, which have included the religious membership’s problems too, have pointed out the relative denominational equilibrium of the Lapus Land’s population conferred by the “end to end” evolutions of the main religions’ rates specific to the Romanian population – Orthodox and Uniat – which represented more than 83% of the worshippers within the Lapus area even during the prime period of the Austro-Hungarian dualism. This relative equilibrium maintained until the starting of the denominational homogenization process generated by the juridical integration of the Uniat Church into the Orthodox one. Unlike the pronounced positive evolutions registered by the denominations specific to the Hungarian ethnic groups within the Transylvanian area, regarding the Lăpuş Land the rate values registered by the denominations specific to the Hungarian ethnic groups had particular evolutions, much more different related to those consigned in the entire Transylvanian area. In other situations, the evolutions have been even contrary, due to some particular social-economic conjunctures that marked the Lăpuşului Land in the course of some analyzed intervals. Thus, the study had in view to spotlight the specific evolution of the confessional profile of the population during the last century and a half. On the whole and at the phase level, the main evolutional specific traits have been highlighted, the territorial distribution, the specific regional manifestations and, not in the last turn, the impact and the implications induced by the historical-political and social-economic context which have marked the Transylvania and the Lăpuşului Land in the analyzed period.
关键词：religion; religious structure; denominational homogeneity and ; disparity; simplifying the denominational pattern; denominational conversion recon version; interdenominational transfer; religious proselytise; group ; peculiarity; evolution; territorial distribution; specific regional manifestations
