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Religion and magic in socialist and post-socialist contexts II : historic and ethnographic case studies of orthodoxy, heterodoxy and alternative spirituality /

Religion and magic have often played important roles in Baltic, Eastern European, and post- USSR societies like those in Russia, Romania, Serbia, Latvia, Kyrgyzstan, and Estonia. Taken together, the studies presented in this collection suggest that the idea that religion and magic are connected to e...

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Other Authors: Cotofana, Alexandra (Editor), Nyce, James M. (Editor), Stasulane, Anita (writer of foreword.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Stuttgart, Germany : Ibidem-Verlag, [2017]
Subjects:
Magic > Communist countries.
Magic > Former communist countries.
Communist countries > Religion.
Former communist countries > Religion.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:383826990X
9783838269900
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword : Religion and Magic behind the Iron Curtain / Anita Stasulane - Introduction / James M. Nyce, Alexandra Coțofană
  • Science of the 'Almost Marvelous' : Storytelling Bees among (Non)Moderns / Larisa Jasarevic
  • The Heritagization of the "Kalinitsa" Feast in Assenovgrad, Post-socialist Bulgaria : A Case of Syncretism between Paganism and Christianity / Zlatina Bogdanova
  • Lingering Orality in the Contemporary Russian Zagovor / Sibelan Forrester
  • Conversion to Pentecostalism and the "Rudari" Community from Filiaşi in the Context of Romanian Post-Socialism / Gabriel Girigan
  • Magic in Soviet and Post-Soviet Estonia / Reet Hiiemäe
  • Trust and Credibility of Folk-healers and other Magical Agents in Contemporary Serbia / Danijela Jerotijević
  • From Tartu Semiotics to Enlightened Magic : Transformations within Scholarly Discourse in Latvia during the Transition from Socialism to Post-Socialism / Iveta Leitane
  • Spiritual Hybridity and Religion in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan / René Provis
  • Getting into the Spirit of the Season : Winter Customs between Magic and Religion in Rural Romania / Ioana Repciuc
  • The Moral and Ontological Ambiguity of a Borderland : Identity, Magic, and Witchcraft in Bucovina, Northern Romania / James M. Nyce, Alexandra Coţofană, and Jessica Pollock.

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