Cosmologies of Suffering : Post-communist Transformation, Sacral Communication, and Healing.

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The edited volume elaborates on a range of themes that emerged during a workshop of the 8th biennial of the European Association of Social Anthropologists in Vienna in 2004. Among these themes are: the paradoxical permanence of 'transition' in post-communist countries, the accompanying per...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lázár, Imre, 1957-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007.
Temas:
Post-communism > Religious aspects.
Suffering > Former communist countries > Religious aspects.
Postcommunisme > Aspect religieux.
Souffrance > Anciens pays communistes > Aspect religieux.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Religion.
Suffering > Religious aspects.
Former communist countries > Religion.
Anciens pays communistes > Religion.
Former communist countries.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Imre Lázár, Agita Lūse
  • Talking with the departed ones : shamanic death ritual in a post-socialist society / Galina Lindquist
  • Downloading cosmic energy : intersection of faith-based and health-care practices (the Novosibirks case) / Tatiana Barchunova
  • Interpreting a case of vitiation / Vilmos Keszegh
  • Metaphors of the New Age purification practices / Dorota Hall
  • Regressing into the past : past lives and collective memory in post-socialist Slovenia / Barbara Potrata
  • Embodied and displaced history : spiritual empowerment in post-communist Hungary / Imre Lázár
  • The body of the saint : iconographies of suffering in a Catholic commemoration ceremony in Vukovar, Croatia / Michaela Schäuble
  • The voices of collapse : destructive and self-destructive expressions among the former miners in Walłbrzych (south Poland) / Thomas Rakowski
  • 'Apocalypse Now!' : interpretations of HIV/AIDS in an urban township in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe / Alexander Rödlach.

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