Relıgıon And Boundarıes Studıes From The Balkans, Eastern Europe And Turkey

Acknowledgements Galia VALTCHINOVA, Introduction. Religion, Boundaries, and Divine Intervention: Speaking from the margins

Part One. Making / Erasing Boundaries at Holy Places and in Shrines

1. Rossitsa GRADEVA, The Churches in the Life of Sofia citizens, 15th to 18th century (Preliminary notes)
2. Benoît FLICHE, Les frontières de l’“orthodoxie” et de l’“hétérodoxie”: türbe et églises à Istanbul
3. Katerina SERAIDARI, From Confrontation to Emulation: Religious mediations on Tinos (19th – late 20th century)
4. Margarita KARAMIHOVA, Roma ‘Invasion’ in an Alevi tekke? (The case of Osman boba tekke in South-Eastern Bulgaria)

Part Two. Crossing Religious Boundaries

1. Bernard LORY, Pseudo-liturgies à la frontière entre millets
2. Tünde KOMÁROMI, Crossing Boundaries in Times of Personal Crisis: Seeking Help from Orthodox Clergy in Transylvania
3. Stelu ŞERBAN, Pilgrimage and Nationhood in a Transylvanian Village
4. Albena GEORGIEVA, Dreams as messages from the Other World: Insights from two local cultures in the Balkans

Part Three. Religion, Boundaries/Borders, and Sociopolitical Change

1. Eva POCS, Social tensions, political changes and divine intervention: Visions and apparitions in Eastern Hungarian communities in our age
2. Vlad NAUMESCU, The Religious Imaginary of Western Ukraine: understanding social change through religious apparitions
3. Gilles DE RAPPER, Religion on the border: Sanctuaries and festivals in post-communist Albania
4. Petko HRISTOV, Kurban of the Deserted Village

Part Four. Religious Entrepreneurs and Holy People

1. Ilia ILIEV, The Story of Angelus, a visionary in the 1860s
2. Galia VALTCHINOVA, Visions of national grandeur in Interwar Bulgaria and the re-discovery of the “Mount Athos of Sofia”
3. Evgenia TROEVA, Prophetic Discourse on a Multi-faceted Boundary: Observing a Religious Brotherhood in Moldova
4. Ekaterina ANASTASOVA, Irina SEDAKOVA, Across Boundaries: the Prophet Zor Alef, a Case of Transnational Mysticism
5. Fenya DEKALO, The Pilgrimage to Rabbi Eliezher Pappo’s grave in Silistra (Bulgaria)
6. Žarko SPANIČEK, Slavonian popular prophets and saints

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