Modes of religiosity in Eastern Christianity: religious processes and social change in Ukraine
This volume offers original insights into the religious transformations taking place in postsocialist western Ukraine. Applying a cognitive theory based on two modes of religiosity, the doctrinal and the imagistic, Vlad Naumescu reveals the mechanisms of reproduction and change that make the local e...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Berlin Münster
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2007
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Halle studies in the anthropology of Eurasia (15)
Year: 2007 |
| Series/Journal: | Halle studies in the anthropology of Eurasia
15 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Ukraine (motif) (West)
/ Social change
/ Religious change
/ Ukrainische Katholische Kirche
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| Further subjects: | B
Ukraine (motif)
Religion
B Ukraine (motif) Religious life and customs B Post-communism Ukraine (motif) B Religion and sociology Ukraine (motif) B Thesis B Religiousness B Ukraine (motif) Social conditions 1991- B Catholic Church Byzantine Rite Metropolitanate of Lʹviv (Ukraine) B Social Change Ukraine (motif) |
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| Summary: | This volume offers original insights into the religious transformations taking place in postsocialist western Ukraine. Applying a cognitive theory based on two modes of religiosity, the doctrinal and the imagistic, Vlad Naumescu reveals the mechanisms of reproduction and change that make the local eastern Christian tradition a living tradition of faith. He combines rich ethnographic materials with historical and theological sources to depict a religion in equilibrium between the two modes, maintaining revelation at the core of its doctrinal corpus. He argues that religion is a potential source for social change that empowers people to act upon reality and transform it. With his innovative exploration of the dynamics of an eastern Christian tradition, Naumescu makes a major contribution to the emerging anthropology of Christianity as well as to studies of postsocialism. |
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| Physical Description: | XII, 255 S., Ill., Kt., 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 978-3-8258-9908-0 3-8258-9908-X |
