Modes of religiosity in Eastern Christianity: Religious processes and social change in Ukraine

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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.
Original languageAmerican English
PublisherLIT Verlag
Number of pages272
Volume15
ISBN (Print)978-3-8258-9908-0
StatePublished - 2007

Publication series

NameHalle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia
Volume15

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