Religion, Censorship, and Science Fiction in Ceaușescu’s Romania: The Persistence of Spiritual Inquiry

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Under Nicolae Ceaușescu's Romania, a teen learns that religion matters chiefly through Mircea Eliade's History of Religious Ideas, aided by Catholic teacher Doina Morariu, while state censorship suppresses spirituality even as science fiction and ufology are used to promote ideology, and after 1989 the same impulse resurfaces in politics, yet truth and spiritual inquiry can endure despite propaganda.