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Negotiating Marian apparitions : the politics of religion in transcarpathian Ukraine.
This book concerns the politics of religion as expressed through apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Dzhublyk in Transcarpathian Ukraine. On the one hand, the analysis provides insights into the present position of Transcarpathia in regional, Ukraine-wide, and European struggles for identity and polit...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Budapest ; New York :
Central European University Press,
2015.
New York : 2015. |
| Colección: | Leipzig studies on the history and culture of East-Central Europe ;
Volume 2. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction
- Religious Experiences, Institutions, and Organizations
- Religious Organizations in (Post)socialism
- Field Research
- Structure of the Book
- ch. 2 Dzhublyk Apparitions and Modern Apparitional Patterns
- Site
- Visionaries and the Managers
- Messages and the Visions
- Networks of Support and Transnational Connections
- Crisis Conditions
- Organizational Embracement, Organizational Rejection
- Concluding Remarks
- ch. 3 Nation and Church in Transcarpathia
- Transcarpathia in Today's Ukraine and the Rusyn Question
- Sui Iuris Eparchy within Present-Day Ukraine: A Brief History
- strong eparchy with an ambiguous status: from the Union of Uzhhorod to Soviet rule
- structure of the Greek Catholic Church in Transcarpathia during the Soviet era
- post-Soviet period
- Liturgical practice
- Virgin Mary at Dzhublyk and the Ukrainian Question
- Concluding Remarks
- ch. 4 Authority of the Priests
- Priests and their Relations with the Laity in Transcarpathia
- Who's in charge?
- effects of the work of underground Greek Catholic priests during the Soviet Era
- Dzhublyk and the underground priests
- economic and legal basis of parish life
- Clerical Strategies of Negotiation over Authority and its Legitimation
- Networking as a member of the local elite
- Withdrawal
- remaining aloof
- Caring for the flock and deepening the faith
- Charisma
- freeing the people from suffering
- Fear of black prayer
- Concluding Remarks
- ch. 5 Call for Unity and Management of "Divergent Devotions"
- Dzhublyk and Nyzhnie Bolotne Parish
- Practice of the Psaltyr
- From Community Cult to Religious Network: Dzhublyk and Mothers' Prayers
- Breaking up the Orthodox Imaginary
- Know-How of Religious Life
- Marian Apparitions as Divergent Devotions?
- ch. 6 Conclusion: Marian Apparitions as Sites of Transformation.