Abstract
In the Romanian communist era, there were several vigorous dissident movements. Nicolae Steinhardt, a Romanian orthodox monk, is known as a writer who joined interior dissident movements and actively supported the campaigns of exile organizations against the communist regime. He was arrested for supporting Constantin Noica, a prominent dissident and philosopher, and spent four years between 1960 and 1964 in concentration camps. In Steinhardt's dissident movement, he maintained a close relationship with Mircea Eliade, who was leading advocate of a group of Romanian exiles. It is possible that Eliade's concept of religions was considered as a key factor in the resistance against Romanian and Soviet regimes. This paper focuses on Steinhardt's text such as Jurnalul fericirii. This book is about his experience in concentration camps. I elucidate that what Eliade calls religions as an idea contrary to the propaganda of communist regime and based on Romanian nationalistically tinged resistance.
