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Religion and Magic in Socialist and Post–Sociali – Baltic, Eastern European, and Post–USSR Case Studies

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Religion and magic have often played important roles in Baltic, Eastern European, and post-Soviet 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 remnant 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 area studies that 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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ISBN: 9783838210902
Publication date: 8th December 2021
Author: Alexandra Cotofana, James M. Nyce
Publisher: ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 350 pages
Series: Soviet and Post–Soviet Politics and Society
Genres: Social and cultural anthropology
Religion and politics