Изобретяване на православните традиции: религиозността в постсоциалистически контекст
The Invention of Orthodox Traditions: Religiosity in a Post-Socialist Context

Summary/Abstract: Can we talk about a religious renaissance in Bulgaria after 1989? Are there new bearers of Christian values or new agents on the market of spirituality, which underwent serious liberalization in the transition to democracy? What is the role of imagination in the recent visions of the “orthodox faith” and to want extent is the border between canonical truths and religious practices erased or preserved? Did Eastern Orthodoxy try to compensate the lack of existential meanings and motivations after the collapse of the monolithic ideological discourse of socialism or did it continue to occupy a marginal position in the society and to be used as escapist platform?

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