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RELIGION AND MAGIC IN SOCIALIST AND POST-SOCIAL...

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 each other in some consistent  universal way may be nothing more than a
reminiscence from nineteenth century anthropology. Further  these studies challenge another
part of anthropology's historical legacy: the idea that magic is something that modernity and
modernization will transcend. Rather  these studies suggest instead that magic is a form of
work that brings modernity into being and helps render it intelligible to those who find
themselves engaged in its creation. This volume brings together historical (pre- and post-1989)
ethnographic  and areal studies which look at the divergent roles of state  culture  society 
tradition  and the individual in enactments of magic and religion. Assessing the role magic and
religion have played in the countries of Eastern Europe and beyond before and after the Cold
War  it is an absorbing read for scholars of anthropology and history as well as ethnology.

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