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Lecturer, PhD. Adriana Ștefănel MA student Andreea Toma

The Avatars of Religious in the Romanian Media: The Mediated (Re)presentations of the Tanacu Case. Lecturer, PhD. Adriana Ștefănel MA student Andreea Toma The Faculty of Journalism and Communication Studies, University of Bucharest. The Tanacu Case .

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Lecturer, PhD. Adriana Ștefănel MA student Andreea Toma

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  1. The Avatars of Religious in the Romanian Media: The Mediated (Re)presentations of the Tanacu Case Lecturer, PhD. Adriana Ștefănel MA student Andreea Toma The Faculty of Journalism and Communication Studies, University of Bucharest

  2. The Tanacu Case • Irina Cornici, a 23 years old womantreated for schizophrenia, starvetodeathafterbeingcrucified in an exorcist ritual • the priest who performed the ritual declaredthatthevictimwas in a demonic state Media and Religion Bucharest 11-12 October 2013

  3. The mediated Tanacu case • the media (re)presentedevery step of the trial; • severaldocumentarieswereproduced in ordertoclarifiedandexplainthe case; • a BBC journalistwrotetwonon-fictionalnovels; • a play -The Tanacu Confession - was staged in New York and Paris; • in 2012, themovieBeyondthe Hillswon the Cannes’s best screen-play & best female performance prizes Media and Religion Bucharest 11-12 October 2013

  4. Mediated social representations Media and Religion Bucharest 11-12 October 2013

  5. Corpus of analysis Media and Religion Bucharest 11-12 October 2013

  6. Research synthetic results • EvenimentulZilei presents the Tanacu case as an extraordinary one for the Romanian society but, paradoxically, as something natural within the Chuch; • the two analyzed books change the stress from the secular-religious opposition to the inside of the religious; • the film focuses strictly on Faith, highlighting its ubiquity and the tension between well-wishing and wrong-doing. Media and Religion Bucharest 11-12 October 2013

  7. The Orthodox Church: bureaucratic Media and Religion Bucharest 11-12 October 2013

  8. The Orthodox Church:struggling with internal conflicts • The young hierarchy The communist hierarchy Media and Religion Bucharest 11-12 October 2013

  9. The Orthodox Church:a weak connection with the congregation • The villagers in Tanacu-Vaslui are supporting the monk and the four nuns (…) The Holy Trinity Monastery in Tanacu, Vaslui County, where a nun was crucified and let die, witnessed violent clashes yesterday between the monastery’s personnel and the congregation on the one side and the leaders of the Bishopric of Husi Media and Religion Bucharest 11-12 October 2013

  10. The Orthodox Church:ecumenism Media and Religion Bucharest 11-12 October 2013

  11. The priest regards the West as a realm that has lost its whole faith that has nothing sacred anymore because everything is permitted in the name of freedom – seeing men with men, women with women, drugs everywhere, even the church is not the same, I am for tolerance, but up to a point. Media and Religion Bucharest 11-12 October 2013

  12. The Orthodox faith: ancestral The scene where the abbess advises Voichiţa to ask the father to pray for her at Mass, to make her special prayers, and then perhaps, with God’s help, the evil one will go away. Moreover, she mentions the priest’s grace and considers him a savior: I think if the father tries, he will make it, he is full of grace, you know. (minute 96) Exorcism of evil spirits – a common practice in Romania Media and Religion Bucharest 11-12 October 2013

  13. The Orthodox faith: everywhere In the psychiatrist who treats, there are three icons on the walls of his office (minute 53). He advises the same nun to take Alina to the church because she would rest better there and tells her to make her read from the Psaltery, it helps. Media and Religion Bucharest 11-12 October 2013

  14. The secular space: mundane or imbued with the sacred? EvenimentulZileiis on the side of the sensible, critical thinking, placing the reader on the same side through its discourse, the side of blaming a religious person regarded as a remnant of other times, situated in the poor, rural space In the two representation media the sacred emerges from the most mundane experiences. Media and Religion Bucharest 11-12 October 2013

  15. Conclusions • The Orthodox Churchis presented as a bureaucratic and sensible institution with a well-established hierarchy, oriented towards itself, yet consumed with internal conflicts, and last but not least, an ecumenical institution • The Orthodox monastic tradition, the popular religion, is organized more loosely, often challenging the superiors’ authority, united in its faith and deeply non-ecumenical, yet based on the spontaneous adhesion of the community members Media and Religion Bucharest 11-12 October 2013

  16. References Media and Religion Bucharest 11-12 October 2013

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