EAN: 9783838209890

RELIGION AND MAGIC IN SOCIALIST AND POSTSOCIALI...

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.

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