The transgenerational effects of Church collaboration under the communist-socialist regime

Joób, Máté (author)

The aim of the study is to show the impact on the descendants of some clergypersons who collaborated as secret agents with the communist-socialist regime, one of whose objectives was to eliminate or at least weaken religiosity and the internal activity and social influence of the churches. The resource material was semi-structured interviews with children and grandchildren. The study aims to show that, beyond the personal traumas and ethical dilemmas, the main concern of the descendants was to preserve and, if necessary, rebuild the parent-child relationship. The pathways to this were different for each of those involved. Their differences were often influenced by previous transgenerational family patterns and influences. The examination from the perspective of the descendants is unique in the research on church collaboration and is the focus of this study.

• Language: English
• Keywords: secret agent, transgenerational patterns, coping, parent-child relationship, Central-Eastern Europe
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: TEOF - Theological Faculty
• Publication status: In print
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.01.2024
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: Str. 105-115
• Numbering: Letn. 84, [št.] 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-163993
• UDC: 272:141.82:316.47
• ISSN on article: 0006-5722
• DOI: 10.34291/BV2024/01/Joob
• COBISS.SI-ID: 206146563
• Publication date in RUL: 15.10.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Bogoslovni vestnik : glasilo Teološke fakultete v Ljubljani
• Shortened title: Bogosl. vestn.
• Publisher: Teološka fakulteta
• ISSN: 0006-5722
• COBISS.SI-ID: 8745472

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Transgeneracijski učinki sodelovanja Cerkve v komunistično-socialističnem režimu

Abstract

Namen študije je prikazati vpliv nekaterih duhovnikov, ki so kot tajni agenti sodelovali s komunistično-socialističnim režimom, katerega eden od ciljev je bil odpraviti ali vsaj oslabiti religioznost ter notranjo dejavnost in družbeni vpliv cerkva, na njihove potomce. Vir gradiva so bili polstrukturirani intervjuji z otroki in vnuki. Namen študije je pokazati, da je bila poleg osebnih travm in etičnih dilem glavna skrb potomcev ohraniti in po potrebi ponovno vzpostaviti odnos med starši in otroki. Vsak od vpletenih je imel pri tem drugačne poti. Na njihove razlike so pogosto vplivali predhodni transgeneracijski družinski vzorci in vplivi. Proučevanje z vidika potomcev je edinstveno v raziskavah o cerkvenem sodelovanju in je v središču te študije.

• Keywords: tajni agent, transgeneracijski vzorci, spoprijemanje, odnos med starši in otroki, Srednja in Vzhodna Evropa