A technology of re-enchantment: reading, referencing, and redistributing Orthodox ‘spiritual literature’ in post-Yugoslav Serbia

This article explores the issue of ‘re-enchantment’ through an ethnographic analysis of ‘spiritual literature’ in post-Yugoslav Serbia. Following the anthropologist Alfred Gell, it argues that Orthodox texts can be understood as ‘enchanted technology’ which, in turn, allows them to work as a ‘techno...

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Subtitles:‘Re-enchantment’ and Religious Change in Former Socialist Europe
Main Author: Lackenby, Nicholas (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge 2024
In: Religion
Year: 2024, Volume: 54, Issue: 1, Pages: 126-142
Further subjects:B Reading
B spiritual literature
B Orthodox Christianity
B Re-enchantment
B postsocialism
B Serbia
B Alfred Gell
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