Religious Diversity in Post-Soviet Society
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Age Milieu
alternative spiritualities
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Author_Milda Alisauskiene
Baltic Paganism
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Catholic Hegemony
Catholic hegemony transformation Lithuania
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Civil Society
Common Language
Contemporary Society
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ethnographic research
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Glass Cupola
Grand Duchy
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Kung Fu
lithuanian
Lithuanian Folklore
Lithuanian Society
Lithuanian Tatars
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Martial Arts Clubs
Mathijs Pelkmans
minority faiths Lithuania
Movement's Religious Teaching
Movement’s Religious Teaching
Muslim Revivalist Movements
Muslim World
orthodox
post-socialist societies
Post-Soviet Lithuania
Religious Congregations
Religious Field
religious pluralism
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Russian Orthodox Church
Significant Muslim Minority
syncretic religious practices
Vytautas Magnus University
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White Lotus
White Lotus Movement
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- ISBN 9781409409120
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jan 2012
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Since the end of state repression against religion, two major processes have taken place in the formerly socialist countries: historically dominant churches strive to reassert their position in society, while new religious groups and ideas from various parts of the world are proliferating. This generates pluralism of religious communities and individual religious attitudes. Religious Diversity in Post-Soviet Society presents the first collection of ethnographies of this new religious diversity for Lithuania, a country that has a long history of a dominant Catholic Church. The authors reveal how Catholicism has become increasingly diversified and other religions (Charismatic Protestantism, Baltic Paganism, Eastern religions and other alternative spiritualities) are claiming their space in the religious field.
Milda Ališauskiene is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Oriental Studies at Vilnius University and a Lecturer in Sociology at Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, where she teaches courses on religion and society, contemporary processes of religious group formation and religion and politics. Her 2009 dissertation was entitled "Manifestation and Peculiarities of New Religions in Lithuania: the Case of the Art of Living Foundation". She has published several articles on contemporary religiosity in Lithuania, focusing on New Age, the Art of Living Foundation, and Satanism, which are based on the material collected during her fieldwork. Her research interests include secularization, religious pluralism, religious fundamentalism, new religious movements, New Age and Neo-Hinduism. Ingo W. Schröder is a Senior Researcher at the Social Anthropology Centre, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, and an Adjunct Professor (Privatdozent) of Social Anthropology at Philipps University, Marburg. He was a Senior Research Fellow from 2007-10 at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale in the research project "The Catholic Church and Religious Pluralism in Lithuania and Poland". His main geographical fields of expertise are Eastern Europe and Native North America, and his research has focused on Catholicism, Neopaganism, socialism and postsocialism, the politics of identity, heritage and culture, as well as urban anthropology. His most recent publication is the edited volume (with Asta Vonderau) Changing Economies and Changing Identities in Postsocialist Eastern Europe (2008). In 2008/2009 he spent a year of fieldwork on urban religiosity in Lithuania.
