Religion and magic have played important roles within Eastern European societies where social reality and socio-political balance may differ greatly from those in the West. Although often thought of as being two distinct, even antagonistic forces, religion and magic find ways to work together. By taking on various examples in the multicultural settings of post-Soviet and post-socialist spaces, this collection brings together diverse historical and ethnographic analyses of orthodoxy and heterodoxy from the pre- and post-1989 periods, studies on the relationship of religious and state institutions to individuals practicing alternative forms of spirituality, and examples of borderlands as spaces of ambiguity. This volume is at the crossroads of anthropology, history, as well as cultural memory studies. Its archival and field research results help us understand how repurposing religious and magic practices worked into the transition that countries in Eastern Europe and beyond have experienced after the end of the Cold War.
Alexandra Cotofana
James M. Nyce
Patrick Michelson
Tatiana Bužeková
Ekaterina Grishaeva
Valeria Shumkova
Victor Shnirelman
Dzvenyslava Hanus
Sarah Rafailjovic
Tatiana Khoruzhenko
Anna Ozhiganova
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| Edited by | Alexandra Cotofana, James M. Nyce |
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| Contributions by | Alexandra Cotofana, Tatiana Bužeková, Ekaterina Grishaeva, Valeria Shumkova, Victor Shnirelman, Dzvenyslava Hanus, Sarah Rafailjovic, Tatiana Khoruzhenko, Anna Ozhiganova |
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| Foreword by | Patrick Michelson |
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Number of Pages |
212
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21,0 cm x 14,8 cm
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Paperback
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English
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Publication date |
30.03.2017
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Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
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ISBN
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978-3-8382-0989-0
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305 g
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„This interesting collection of essays is the first volume of an ambitious project to examine the development of religion and magic in the former Soviet bloc.” –The Russian Review (Vol. 77 No. 2), April 2018
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