Negotiating Marian Apparitions : : The Politics of Religion in Transcarpathian Ukraine / / Agnieszka Halemba.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Halemba, Agnieszka,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Leipzig Studies on the History and Culture of East-Central Europe
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.)

This book concerns the politics of religion as expressed through apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Dzhublyk in Transcarpathian Ukraine. On the one hand, the analysis provides insights into the present position of Transcarpathia in regional, Ukraine-wide, and European struggles for identity and political belonging. The way in which the apparitions site has been conceived and managed raises questions concerning the fate of religious communities during and after socialism, the significance of national projects for religious organizations, and the politics of religious management in a situation in which local religious commitments are relatively strong and religious organizations are relatively weak. The analysis contributes to the ethnography and history of this particular region and of the post-socialist world in general. On the other hand, the changing status of the apparition site over the years allows investigation of the questions concerning authority, legitimacy, and power in religious organizations, especially in relation to management of religious experiences. The analysis aims at clarification of such concepts as religious institutions, organizations but also religious experiences and is relevant to anthropology, sociology and religious studies. It is argued that the important question in analyses of religious apparitions should not be how an individual experience becomes institutionalized and instrumentalized, but how experience becomes a tool for negotiation and transformation in the religious field. Key word: 1. Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint-–Apparitions and miracles–Ukraine–Zakarpats'kaoblast'. 2. Zakarpats'ka oblast' (Ukraine)–Church history.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Maps and Photographs -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Transliteration -- CHAPTER 1. Introduction -- CHAPTER 2. The Dzhublyk Apparitions and Modern Apparitional Patterns -- CHAPTER 3. Nation and Church in Transcarpathia -- CHAPTER 4. Authority of the Priests -- CHAPTER 5. Call for Unity and Management of “Divergent Devotions” -- CHAPTER 6. Conclusion: Marian Apparitions as Sites of Transformation -- Bibliography -- Index