Sacred places, emerging spaces : religious pluralism in the post-Soviet Caucasus / edited by Tsypylma Darieva, Florian Mühlfried and Kevin Tuite.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Darieva, Tsypylma, editor.

Mühlfried, Florian, editor.

Tuite, Kevin, editor.

Series:

Space and place ; v. 17.

Space and place ; v. 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religious pluralism.

Sacred space.

Religion.

Caucasus--Religion.

Caucasus.

Sacred space--Caucasus.

Religious pluralism--Caucasus.

Caucasus Region.

Physical Description:

x, 235 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2018.

Summary:

"Though long-associated with violence, the Caucasus is a region rich with religious conviviality. Based on fresh ethnographies in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the Russian Federation, Sacred places, emerging spaces discusses vanishing and emerging sacred places in the multi-ethnic and multi-religious post-Soviet Caucasus. In exploring the effects of de-secularization, growing institutional control over hybrid sacred sites, and attempts to review social boundaries between the religious and the secular, these essays give way to an emergent Caucasus viewed from the ground up: dynamic, continually remaking itself, within shifting and indefinite frontiers."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Between 'Great' and 'Little' traditions: situating Shia saints in contemporary Baku / Tsypylma Darieva

Women as bread-bakers and ritual-makers: gender, visibility and sacred space in Upper Svaneti / Nino Tserediani, Kevin Tuite and Paata Bukhrashvili

The chain of Seven Pilgrimages in Kotaik, Armenia: between folk and official Christianity / Levon Abrahamian, Zaruhi Hambardzumyan, Gayane Shagoyan, Gohar Stepanyan

Sacred sites in the western Caucasus and the Black Sea Region: typology, hybridization, functioning / Igor V. Kuznetsov

The power of the Shrine and creative performances in Ingiloy sacred rituals / Nino Aivazishvili-Gehne

Accompanying the souls of the dead: the transformation of sacral time and encounters / Hege Toje

Not sharing the sacra / Florian Mzhlfried

Informal shrines and social transformations: the murids as new religious mediators among Yezidis in Armenia / Hamlet Melkumyan

Sharing the not-sacred: Rabati and displays of multiculturalism / Silvia Serrano.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Sacred places, emerging spaces

ISBN:

9781785337826

1785337823

OCLC:

1029067254