Modern pagan and native faith movements in Central and Eastern Europe

Acumen

2013

x, 358 p.

Studies in contemporary and historical paganism

9781844656622

Introduction : modern pagan and native faith movements in Central and Eastern Europe / Kaarina Aitamurto and Scott Simpson --Part I. Overviews. A postcolonial key to understanding Central and Eastern European neopaganisms / Piotr Wiench --Selected words for modern pagan and native faith movements in Central and Eastern Europe / Scott Simpson and Mariusz Filip --Romanticism and the rise of neopaganism in nineteenth-century Central and Eastern Europe : the Polish case / Agnieszka Gajda --Russian neopaganism : from ethnic religion to racial violence / Victor A. Shnirelman --Part II. Country studies. Contemporary paganism in Lithuanian context : principal beliefs and practices of Romuva / Rasa Pranskevičiūtė --The Dievturi movement in Latvia as invention of tradition / Gatis Ozolin̦š --Polish Rodzimowierstwo : strategies for (re)constructing a movement / Scott Simpson --Ukrainian paganism and syncretism : "this is indeed ours!" / Mariya Lesiv --Russian Rodnoverie : six portraits of a movement / Kaarina Aitamurto and Alexey Gaidukov --Czech neopagan movements and leaders / Anna-Marie Dostálová --Neopaganism in Slovenia / Aleš Črnič --Bulgarian society and the diversity of pagan and neopagan themes / Vladimir Dulov --Romanian ethno-paganism : discourses of nationalistic religion in virtual space / László-Attila Hubbes --Neopaganism in Hungary : under the spell of roots / Réka Szilárdi --Neopaganism in the Mari El Republic / Boris Knorre --A neopagan movement in Armenia : the Children of Ara / Yulia Antonyan and Konrad Siekierski --Part III. Thematic studies. The ideology of Jan Stachniuk and the power of creation / Maciej Strutyński --"Imported" paganisms in Poland in the twenty-first century : a sketch of the developing landscape / Maciej Witulski --The Russian-language Internet and Rodnoverie / Alexey Gaidukov.

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