Cosmologies of suffering
Subtitle: post-communist transformation, sacral communication, and healing
By: edited by Agita Lūse and Imre Lázár
Contributors: Lazar, Imre
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Newcastle, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781847182586
Subjects: Religion; Post-communism; Religious aspects; Suffering
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Imre Lázár, Agita Lūse; title: Talking with the departed ones : shamanic death ritual in a post-socialist society / Galina Lindquist; title: Downloading cosmic energy : intersection of faith-based and health-care practices (the Novosibirks case) / Tatiana Barchunova; title: Interpreting a case of vitiation / Vilmos Keszegh; title: Metaphors of the New Age purification practices / Dorota Hall; title: Regressing into the past : past lives and collective memory in post-socialist Slovenia / Barbara Potrata; title: Embodied and displaced history : spiritual empowerment in post-communist Hungary / Imre Lázár; title: The body of the saint : iconographies of suffering in a Catholic commemoration ceremony in Vukovar, Croatia / Michaela Schäuble; title: The voices of collapse : destructive and self-destructive expressions among the former miners in Walłbrzych (south Poland) / Thomas Rakowski; title: 'Apocalypse Now!' : interpretations of HIV/AIDS in an urban township in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe / Alexander Rödlach.