Reprint

East-Slavic Religions and Religiosity: Mythologies, Literature and Folklore: A Reassessment

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October 2021
344 pages
  • ISBN978-3-0365-2025-4 (Hardback)
  • ISBN978-3-0365-2026-1 (PDF)

This is a Reprint of the Special Issue East-Slavic Religions and Religiosity: Mythologies, Literature and Folklore: A Reassessment that was published in

Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities
Summary

Our collective volume is focused on an ambitious interdisciplinary project that unites several existing disciplines in humanities with Slavic religion and mythology. We are dealing with the topic of Slavic mythology and religion, not only from purely historical or folklorist standpoints, but we also add to this by including philosophy, creative arts, modern theory, and critiques. We hope this sheds more light on ways in which mythologies and religious traditions inform ideas and artistic practices, past and present. General topics of the volume include but are not limited to: Religious traditionalism merged with occult-mystical tradition and their ideological aspects in literature, culture, and various relevant motifs in the oeuvre of several Slavic authors; Slavic folklore and popular culture in general—philosophical and theoretical critique, religious and occult texts; Slavic literature, its mythological and religious motifs; and modern orthodox fundamentalism. This is merged with analyses of Slavic religious experience of folklore, Slavic popular religious culture, occult themes, and topics of sectarian mythology and discourse. The chronological framework of the project is not limited to any specific period.

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  • Hardback
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Keywords
Bulgarians; Orthodox Christianity; Islam; Ottoman Empire; natural disasters; plague; folklore; Ivan Petrovich Sakharov; literary pastiche; a hoax; a fake; Christmas carols; the sacrifice of a goat; Vasily Rozanov; Christianity; Judaism; sexuality and religions; human–animal monism; proto-posthumanism; Greek Catholics; Church Union; Ruthenia; popular baroque piety; Marian devotion; miraculous images; devotional songs; pilgrimages; Merezhkovsky; Third Testament; symbolism; chiliasm; New Religious Consciousness; Christianity; Slavic folk culture; mythology; beliefs; rites; folklore; Orthodox Christianity; philosophy of history; myth; Passion of Christ; Easter; cyclical time; Boris Pasternak; Doctor Zhivago; Leo Tolstoy; magic; folklore; Slavic studies; Russian studies; herbals; incantations; manuscript studies; Pavel Filonov and his family; icons of St. Catherine the Martyr; Orthodoxy; Old Believers; Imperial Academy of Arts; Crucifixion; Natal’ia Goncharova; Kazimir Malevich; Vladimir Tatlin; Cathedral of the Intercession at Rogozhskaia sloboda (Moscow); authorial power; scripting others; reading each other; discursive combats; playing god; Raskolnikov; Luzhin; Aliosha Karamazov; the Grand Inquisitor; Andrei Bely; Rudolf Steiner; Apostle Paul; gospels; anthroposophy; The History of the Formation of the Self-Conscious Soul; Crisis of Consciousness; Jan Patočka; titanism; Faust; Goethe; ethics; religion; Christianity; titanism; Socrates; myth; archetype; Kazimir Malevich; apophatism; suprematism; The Black Square; icon; mandorla; sacred mysteries; hesychasm; Jesus prayer; Russian Orthodoxy; The Way of a Pilgrim; elder; Salinger; Franny; Zooey; Russian; Orthodox; Christianity; saints; folklore; magic; incantations; The Nose (tale); Gogol; religious crisis; sacrilege; blasphemy; linguistic indecency; religion; Polish mother; Sappho; love poem; religious; Polish female poetry; 21st-century female poetry; lyric matrixes; Polish Catholic Church; feminine models of poetry; engaged poetry; body; Polish society; Alexansder Vedensky; Russian avant-garde; time; God; Russian Paganism; mythology; theory; narrative; semiotics & semiosis

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