The Waning of Confessional Identity Boundaries Through Mixed Marriage in North-Western Transylvania (Second Half of the 19th Century - Early 20th Century).

The ethnic and confessional diversity of the population imposes a communication, an interference of different ethno-confessional communities. Mixed marriage is one of the factors providing the link between interethnic and interreligious communities. As these communities were living together, it was natural that this "cooperation" should be visible in the case of marriage. Given the context, mixed marriages acquired an innate inter-culturalism due to the need to live together. Mixed marriage may be one of the social mechanisms to alter traditional spiritual values. It is a crossing of the barriers imposed by identity borders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]