Modes of Religiosity in Eastern Christianity. Religious Processes and Social Change in Ukraine
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AutorIn
Vlad Naumescu
Verlag
Berlin: LIT-Verlag
Jahr der Veröffentlichung
2007
ISBN
978-3-8258-9908-0
OPAC
Abstract
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.