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People observe and transgress religious borders when they relate with faith and other faiths, when they shape communities, when they make decisions. A group of researchers have joined an inquiry into the forces of religious closure and openness in present-day Central and Eastern Europe. Sociology, political science and history are triangulated to render a clear understanding of the individual experiences of religion and secularity, and of the strategic choices of religious and political elites, taking readers along an exploration of religious identity and otherness.
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Spaces and Borders
Religion and Society Edited by Gustavo Benavides, Kocku von Stuckrad and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
Volume 51
De Gruyter
Spaces and Borders Current Research on Religion in Central and Eastern Europe
Edited by Andra´s Ma´te´-To´th and Cosima RughinisX
De Gruyter
This publication is supported by REVACERN project which has received research funding from the European Union - Sixth Framework programme - under Priority 7 “Citizens and Governance in a Knowledge-based Society”. Expert advisers: De´nes Kiss (Cluj-Napoca), Viktor Yelensky (Kiev)
ISBN 978-3-11-022813-7 e-ISBN 978-3-11-022814-4 ISSN 1437-5370 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Spaces and borders : current research on religion in Central and Eastern Europe / Andra´s Ma´te´-To´th. Cosima Rughinis (eds.). p. cm. - (Religion and society, ISSN 1437-5370 ; v. 51) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-3-11-022813-7 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Europe, Central - Religion - 21st century. 2. Europe, Eastern Religion - 21st century. I. Ma´te´-To´th, Andra´s, 1957- II. Rughinis, Cosima. BL980.C39S63 2011 200.943-dc23 2011017189
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Table of Contents Introduction ...........................................................................................
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Experiencing Religion .........................................................................
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GÁBOR ATTILA FELEKY: The Vague Borders of New Age ............................................................ TOMÁŠ HRUSTI+: Values and Ethnicity – Religious Conversions of Roma in Eastern Slovakia to the Watchtower Society ..................................................... MICHAELA ONDRAŠINOVÁ: The Negotiation of Borders between “Religion” and “Spirituality” .................................................................................... RAFAL SMOCZYNSKI: ISKCON Folk Devils Fight Back. The Dynamics of CounterStigmatization Strategy ..........................................................................
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Strategies of Religious Elites ............................................................. 63 ÖNDER ÇETIN: Muslims, Bosnians and Bosniaks Shaped among Sarajevo, Sandžak and Belgrade ........................................................... 65 MILAN FUJDA: Acculturation of Hinduism and the Czech Traditions of Yoga ........ 81 DUMITRU MINZARARI: The Interaction between Orthodox Church and State in Post-Soviet Russia ............................................................................... 103 FRANTIŠEK ŠÍSTEK: Clericalization of Nationalism ............................................................... 117
Religion and Politics ............................................................................ 131