Healing Chains, Relationships of Power and Competing Religious Imageries in the Monastery of Saints Kosmas and Damian in Kuklen (Bulgaria)
This article offers an anthropological analysis of a conflict over the use of a set of 'healing chains' and other focal objects kept in the Orthodox Christian monastery of Saints Kosmas and Damian in Kuklen, Bulgaria. In a nutshell, the conflict captures the leading religious imageries pro...
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| description | This article offers an anthropological analysis of a conflict over the use of a set of 'healing chains' and other focal objects kept in the Orthodox Christian monastery of Saints Kosmas and Damian in Kuklen, Bulgaria. In a nutshell, the conflict captures the leading religious imageries propagated by the custodians of the monastery on the one hand, and the spiritual leaders of a new religious movement, so-called Deunovians, on the other. The analysis helps situate some of the significant changes currently affecting the religious culture of Orthodox Christians in Bulgaria within a broader social and cultural context. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-59798634b2124807b98936e6bb2887822025-02-02T15:31:11ZengSciendoJournal of Ethnology and Folkloristics1736-65182228-09872016-06-01101719910.1515/jef-2016-0004142Healing Chains, Relationships of Power and Competing Religious Imageries in the Monastery of Saints Kosmas and Damian in Kuklen (Bulgaria)Magdalena Lubanska0Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at University of WarsawThis article offers an anthropological analysis of a conflict over the use of a set of 'healing chains' and other focal objects kept in the Orthodox Christian monastery of Saints Kosmas and Damian in Kuklen, Bulgaria. In a nutshell, the conflict captures the leading religious imageries propagated by the custodians of the monastery on the one hand, and the spiritual leaders of a new religious movement, so-called Deunovians, on the other. The analysis helps situate some of the significant changes currently affecting the religious culture of Orthodox Christians in Bulgaria within a broader social and cultural context.https://www.jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/221healing chainOrthodox ChristiansDeunoviansreligious imageriesBulgariaekstrasensi |
| spellingShingle | Magdalena Lubanska Healing Chains, Relationships of Power and Competing Religious Imageries in the Monastery of Saints Kosmas and Damian in Kuklen (Bulgaria) Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics healing chain Orthodox Christians Deunovians religious imageries Bulgaria ekstrasensi |
| title | Healing Chains, Relationships of Power and Competing Religious Imageries in the Monastery of Saints Kosmas and Damian in Kuklen (Bulgaria) |
| title_full | Healing Chains, Relationships of Power and Competing Religious Imageries in the Monastery of Saints Kosmas and Damian in Kuklen (Bulgaria) |
| title_fullStr | Healing Chains, Relationships of Power and Competing Religious Imageries in the Monastery of Saints Kosmas and Damian in Kuklen (Bulgaria) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Healing Chains, Relationships of Power and Competing Religious Imageries in the Monastery of Saints Kosmas and Damian in Kuklen (Bulgaria) |
| title_short | Healing Chains, Relationships of Power and Competing Religious Imageries in the Monastery of Saints Kosmas and Damian in Kuklen (Bulgaria) |
| title_sort | healing chains relationships of power and competing religious imageries in the monastery of saints kosmas and damian in kuklen bulgaria |
| topic | healing chain Orthodox Christians Deunovians religious imageries Bulgaria ekstrasensi |
| url | https://www.jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/221 |
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