The chapters collected in Religion and Magic in Socialist and Post-Socialist Contexts are informed by two political events of the recent past: the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Without those events and the sociocultural dislocations that ensued, interest in religion and magic in Eastern Europe very likely would have remained displaced by the more familiar stories, at least among
Anglo-Saxon scholars of secularization and disenchantment. Instead, the upheaval of those years helped reveal an array of transnational, national, and regional cultures in Eastern Europe that, like cultures around
the globe, are permeated by religion and magic.
Author(s): Alexandra Cotofana, James M. Nyce (eds.)
Series: Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society (SPPS)
Publisher: Ibidem Verlag
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 214
Contents
Patrick Lally Michelson
Foreword................................................................................................ 7
Alexandra Coțofană and James M. Nyce
Introduction ......................................................................................... 17
Tatiana Bužeková
Common Work on the Future: Concept of Healing in Neo-
Shamanism .......................................................................................... 33
Ekaterina Grishaeva, Valeria Shumkova
What Does It Mean to Be a True Orthodox in
Post-Secular Russia: Attitude Toward Magic Among
Orthodox Believers in the Middle Ural ............................................. 51
Victor Shnirelman
How to Become the “Slavic-Aryans”: The Founders of the
Russian Neo-Paganism and Their Ambitions .................................. 75
Alexandra Coțofană
The Curse Prayers of Saint Vasile or How to “Declare War
to the Devil” ......................................................................................... 99
Dzvenyslava Hanus
Maternity Rituals in the Soviet Western Ukrainian Borderland ... 119
Tatiana Khoruzhenko
“Media Witches” in the 21st-Century Russia................................. 141
Sarah Rafailjović
(Un)orthodox Practice: Magic and Retraditionalization
in Post-Socialist Serbia. ................................................................... 157
Anna Ozhiganova
Health Magic in Russian New Age .................................................. 175
List of Contributors .......................................................................... 175
