Modern pagan and native faith movements in Central and Eastern Europe

Titel: Modern pagan and native faith movements in Central and Eastern Europe / edited by Kaarina Aitamurto and Scott Simpson
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Veröffentlicht: Durham : Acumen, 2013
Umfang: x, 358 Seiten
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
Schriftenreihe/
mehrbändiges Werk:
Studies in contemporary and historical paganism
Schlagworte:
ISBN: 1844656624 ; 9781844656622
  • Contributors
  • p. vii
  • 1
  • Introduction: Modern Pagan and Native Faith Movements in Central and Eastern Europe
  • p. 1
  • Part I
  • Overviews
  • 2
  • A Postcolonial Key to Understanding Central and Eastern European Neopaganisms
  • p. 10
  • 3
  • Selected Words for Modern Pagan and Native Faith Movements in Central and Eastern Europe
  • p. 27
  • 4
  • Romanticism and the Rise of Neopaganism in Nineteenth-Century Central and Eastern Europe: the Polish Case
  • p. 44
  • 5
  • Russian Neopaganism: from Ethnic Religion to Racial Violence
  • p. 62
  • Part II
  • Country Studies
  • 6
  • Contemporary Paganism in Lithuanian Context: Principal Beliefs and Practices of Romuva
  • p. 77
  • 7
  • The Dievturi Movement in Latvia as Invention of Tradition
  • p. 94
  • 8
  • Polish Rodzimowierstwo: Strategies for (Re)constructing a Movement
  • p. 112
  • 9
  • Ukrainian Paganism and Syncretism: "This Is Indeed Ours!"
  • p. 128
  • 10
  • Russian Rodnoverie: Six Portraits of a Movement
  • p. 146
  • 11
  • Czech Neopagan Movements and Leaders
  • p. 164
  • 12
  • Neopaganism in Slovenia
  • p. 182
  • 13
  • Bulgarian Society and the Diversity of Pagan and Neopagan Themes
  • p. 195
  • 14
  • Romanian Ethno-Paganism: Discourses of Nationalistic Religion in Virtual Space
  • p. 213
  • 15
  • Neopaganism in Hungary: Under the Spell of Roots
  • p. 230
  • 16
  • Neopaganism in the Mari El Republic
  • p. 249
  • 17
  • A Neopagan Movement in Armenia: The Children of Ara
  • p. 266
  • Part III
  • Thematic Studies
  • 18
  • The Ideology of Jan Stachniuk and the Power of Creation
  • p. 283
  • 19
  • "Imported" Paganisms in Poland in the Twenty-First Century: A Sketch of the Developing Landscape
  • p. 298
  • 20
  • The Russian-Language Internet and Rodnoverie
  • p. 315
  • Bibliography
  • p. 333
  • Index
  • p. 351