Inochentism and Orthodox Christianity: Religious Dissent in the Russian and Romanian Borderlands

ISBN-13: 9780367786212 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 278 str.

James A. Kapaló

Opis

This book explores the history and evolution of Inochentism, a controversial new religious movement that emerged in the Russian and Romanian borderlands of what is now Moldova and Ukraine in the context of the Russian revolutionary period.

Spis treści

Introduction  1 Between Hagiography and History: The Life of Inochentie of Balta  2 "The Mad Doctrine of the Incarnation of the Holy Spirit"  3 "All wells will run dry": Belief and Practice amongst the Balta Pilgrims  4 Inochentism in Interwar Romania  5 Visions of the Underground: Archangelism in Interwar Romania  6 "John’s Flock": Ioan Zlotea and the Monastic Tradition  7 Return to the Garden of Paradise: Inochentism under Stalin and Antonescu  8 Golgotha: The Inochentist Underground in Soviet Moldavia  9 Epilogue

O autorze

James A. Kapaló is Senior Lecturer in the Study of Religions at University College Cork, Ireland and co-Director of the Marginalised and Endangered Worldviews Study Centre. He is author of Text, Context and Performance: Gagauz Folk Religion in Discourse and Practice (2011).