The Christian Student Sandu Tudor and the Institutionalising Strategies of Interwar Student Associations (1921 - 1926)

• Author: Carmen Ciornea
• Position: Facultatea de Teologie, Universitatea ?Ovidius'
• Pages: 53-63

Law, Society & Organisations

Volume IV, Issue 7 (2 / 2019)

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Carmen CIORNEA

Facultatea de Teologie – Universitatea „Ovidius”

THE CHRISTIAN STUDENT SANDU

TUDOR AND THE INSTITUTIONALISING

STRATEGIES OF INTERWAR STUDENT

ASSOCIATIONS (1921 – 1926)

K

eywords

Sandu Tudor;

Alexandru Teodorescu;

Orthodoxy;

Christian paradigm;

Association of Romanian Christian Students

Abstract

The present paper gives a diachronic presentation of the connections between three organizations – the

Y.M.C.A (Young Men's Christian Association), the A.S.C.R. (Asociația Studențească Creștină din

România[The Christian Student Association of Romania])and the U.N.S.C.R. (Uniunea Națională a

Studenților Creștini din România [the National Union of Christian Students of Romania]). The

pluridimensional (theological, cultural and political) research aims to describe the implications and mutual

interests in their dynamics, to the extent that these can be reconstructed based on scrutiny of the Sigurană

[Secret Service] Archives and of the press of the time. Needless to say the present paper does not lay claim

to an exhaustive analysis of this topic, but tries to reconstruct the circumstances of Alexandru Teodorescu’s

(aka Sandu Tudor) evolution within these organisations. Besides, in order to understand the existential

trajectory of a human being, particularly an exceptional one (such as our subject), in order to understand

his options, decisions and how they we re taken, it is important to look at the environment, the people he

lived among, the sympathies and animosities shown, etc. Therefore, the documentary sources will be

filtered according to these objectives and the paper will especially focus on the way the Orthodox Church

was present (experienced, perceived) among the student population.

JEL Classification: I20, K49, Z12