Hidden galleries : material religion in the secret police archives in Central and Eastern Europe / edited by James Kapaló and Tatiana Vagramenko.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kapaló, James Alexander, editor.

Vagramenko, Tatiana, editor.

European Research Council.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Anthropology of religion ; Bd. 3.

Anthropology of religion = Religionsethnologie ; Band / volume 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romania--Archival resources.

Romania.

Hungary--Archival resources.

Hungary.

Moldova--Archival resources.

Moldova.

Ukraine--Archival resources.

Ukraine.

Central Europe.

Eastern Europe.

Religion and state--Europe, Central--20th century.

Religion and state.

Religion and state--Europe, Eastern--20th century.

Religious adherents--Europe, Central--Archives.

Religious adherents.

Religious adherents--Europe, Eastern--Archives.

Socialism and religion--Europe, Central.

Socialism and religion.

Socialism and religion--Europe, Eastern.

Archival resources.

Genre:

Archives.

Physical Description:

104 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 x 30 cm

Place of Publication:

Zürich : LIT, [2020]

Contents:

Introduction : archives and faith communities / James Kapaló and Tatiana Vagramenko

Part I. The underground. Underground spaces. 1. Destruction of a Romanian Old Calendarist church / Iuliana Cindrea

2. True Orthodox underground monastery / Tatiana Vagramenko

3. Underground monastery in Bucharest / Anca Maria Șincan

4. Bunker printing press / Tatiana Vagramenko

5. Raid on a house church / Kinga Povedák

6. Renouncing membership of the Romanian Orthodox Church / Anca Maria Șincan

7. Clandestine Greek Catholic services in Transylvania / Anca Maria Șincan

8. Nuns hiding in the woods / Iuliana Cindrea

9. Maria Sîrbu and her sisters in faith / James Kapaló

10. Floorplan of an underground house church / Anca Maria Șincan

Communicating in the underground. 11. Clandestine catechism classes / Ágnes Hesz

12. "Fresh bread from Mama" : Jehovah's Witness code / Tatiana Vagramenko

13. "Catholic girls" / Ágnes Hesz

14. Postcard from detention / Iuliana Cindrea

Part II. Police aesthetics. Religious network schemes. 15. Model network schemes of the True Orthodox Church / Tatiana Vagramenko

16. Jehovah's Witness network scheme / Ágnes Hesz

17. Photo-collage of members of the True Orthodox Church / Tatiana Vagramenko

Crime scene photographs. 18. Forbidden materials / Ágnes Hesz

19. Hieromonk Seraphim at the scene of the crime / Tatiana Vagramenko

20. The typewriter / Anca Maria Șincan

21. Smuggling books / Iuliana Cindrea

22. Evidence against the Catholic underground / Kinga Povedák

23. Re-staging ritual / James Kapaló and Dumitru Lisnic

24. Filming the Ioannites / Tatiana Vagramenko

Photograph albums. 25. A Hungarian Calvinist church choir in pictures / Ágnes Hesz

26. KGB photo album on Ukrainian Greek Catholic leaders / Tatiana Vagramenko

Investigative methods. 27. Surveillance of the Greek Catholic underground / Anca Maria Șincan

28. Meeting with a secret agent / Tatiana Vagramenko

29. The many shadows of Bishop Dragomir / Anca Maria Șincan

30. Defacing Soviet leaders / Dumitru Lisnic

31. Operation Leaflet / Anca Maria Șincan

32. Cryptographic letters / Kinga Povedák

Part III. Creative agency and cultural patrimony. 33. A postcard from Transnistria / James Kapaló

34. Postcards of martyr bishops / Anca Maria Șincan

35. "The Archangel Michael looked just like me" / James Kapaló

36. The mugshots of the spiritual fathers from Odaia / Dumitru Lisnic

37. The mugshot as devotional image / Iuliana Cindrea

38. Archangelist women / Dumitru Lisnic

Confiscated photographs. 39. Confiscated Old Calendarist postcard / Iuliana Cindrea

40. Seventh-day Reformed Adventist community photograph / Tatiana Vagramenko

41. The appearance of a saint / James Kapaló

42. "Shot by the gendarmes" / Iuliana Cindrea

43. A confiscated family album / Dumitru Lisnic

44. Clandestine Pentecostal baptism / Kinga Povedák

Confiscated religious materials. 45. A novena for the freedom of the Greek Catholic Church / Anca Maria Șincan

46. Seventh-day Reformed Adventist confiscated material / Tatiana Vagramenko

47. Church of Turan Believers of One God / Ágnes Hesz

48. Pentecostal prophecy / Tatiana Vagramenko

49. "The angel of Fűzfő" / Kinga Povedák

Part IV. Fieldwork reflections. 50. Echoes of Cucova / Iuliana Cindrea

51. Tudorist songbook / Iuliana Cindrea

52. Bishop Evloghie and his prayer beads / Anca Maria Șincan

53. The stolen stamp / Ágnes Hesz

54. A story without a case file / Kinga Povedák

Postface. Exhibitions as tools to think with : on impact and process / Gabriela Nicolescu.

Notes:

"This book constitutes one of the key outputs of the European Research Council project Creative Agency and Religious Minorities: "Hidden Galleries" in the Secret Police Archives in Central and Eastern Europe and is based on materials included in the Hidden Galleries Digital Archive (http://hiddengalleries.eu/digitalarchive/) and the subsequent public exhibitions."--Page 6

"The materials presented here originate from the secret police and other state archives in Romania, Hungary, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine."--Page 8

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9783643912633

3643912633

9783643962638

3643962630

OCLC:

1221007264

Publisher Number:

99991104821