SOFIA AS A SACRED SPACE FOR ESOTERIC SOCIETIES (END OF THE 19th – FIRST HALF OF THE 20th CENTURY)
SOFIA AS A SACRED SPACE FOR ESOTERIC SOCIETIES (END OF THE 19th – FIRST HALF OF THE 20th CENTURY)
Author(s): Georgeta NazarskaSubject(s): History, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Sociology, History of ideas, Local History / Microhistory, Modern Age, Recent History (1900 till today), Culture and social structure , Rural and urban sociology, 19th Century, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Институт за балканистика с Център по тракология - Българска академия на науките
Keywords: Esotericism; societies; urban space; Sofia; local history;
Summary/Abstract: The article studies the connection between structuring of the Sofia urban space from the end of the 19th to the middle of the 20th century and esoteric communities in the capital (spiritualist, theosophical, anthroposophical, Rosicrucian, freemasonic, co-freemasonic, including some of the NRM). A “case study” of present districts of Krasno Selo, Pavlovo and Ovcha Kupel is made with historical and cultural studies approach. Both the processes of their emergence, settlement, planning, and the socio-cultural profile of their inhabitants, some of whom were associated with occult societies, are explored.
Journal: Études balkaniques
- Issue Year: 2022
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 134-158
- Page Count: 25
- Language: English
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