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...
Subtitles: | ‘Re-enchantment’ and Religious Change in Former Socialist Europe |
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Routledge
2024
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Religion
Year: 2024, Volume: 54, Issue: 1, Pages: 126-142 |
Further subjects: | B
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B spiritual literature B Orthodox Christianity B Re-enchantment B postsocialism B Serbia B Alfred Gell |
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