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Le vieil homme et le livre
En dĂ©pit de critiques rĂ©centes, lâanthropologie nâa pas encore admis que ses conceptions de la transmission culturelle sont dominĂ©es par des ontologies temporelles, par le « continuisme » qui domine notre discipline. Cet article montre que les ethnographies de la transmission culturelle devraient systĂ©matiquement prendre en compte sa temporalitĂ© et son historicitĂ©. Jây explique comment les vieux-croyants (une branche schismatique de lâorthodoxie russe) cultivent un millĂ©narisme quotidien oĂč se mĂȘlent des temporalitĂ©s distinctes. Issus dâune tradition orthodoxe qui met en valeur sa propre continuitĂ©, les vieux-croyants ont appris Ă percevoir concrĂštement la finitude de ce monde et lâimminence de lâApocalypse. RĂ©agissant aux circonstances historiques, ils ont adoptĂ© une conception kĂ©notique de la vie chrĂ©tienne, que lâon retrouve dans les modalitĂ©s particuliĂšres de la transmission religieuse.The Old Man and the Book. Old Believersâ crisis of transmission (Romania) In spite of recent critique, anthropology has yet to acknowledge the temporal ontologies that mark its conceptions of cultural transmission, the âcontinuity thinkingâ that dominates anthropological investigations. Arguing that any ethnography of cultural transmission should engage systematically with issues of temporality and historicity, I show in this paper how Old Believers, a schismatic Russian Orthodox movement, cultivates an everyday millenarianism informed by distinct temporalities. Stemming from an Orthodox tradition which affirms continuity, Old Believers developed a concrete perception of the finitude of this world and awareness of the apocalyptic moment. In response to historical circumstances they embraced a kenotic conception of Christian life which is embedded in particular modalities of religious transmission
Burying two bishops : legitimating the church through the politics of the past in Romania
Through the looking glass: Imaginations of Europe in Ukrainian studies
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=2532
The âPostâ in Perspective: Revisiting the Post-socialist Religious Question in Central Asia and Central and Eastern Europe
A new âGreat Schism'? Theopolitics of communion and canonical territory in the Orthodox Church
This article examines the recent âschismâ in Eastern Orthodoxy to show how religion and politics are strongly intertwined in disputes over territory and sovereignty. It argues that two logics are at play in this conflict: one grounded in the theological-political concept of âcanonical territoryâ, the other in the notion of âcommunionâ at the basis of the Christian fellowship. The first is deployed in claims for national sovereignty as well as imperial domination, while the latter can make or break communities of faith. Drawing a parallel between the post-socialist revival of religion in Ukraine and the current mobilization on the ground, it shows how these contradictory logics shape the fate of people, churches and states.Published versio
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Que ce soit en Europe ou dans des sociĂ©tĂ©s plus lointaines, les discours « de crise » sur la disparition des sociĂ©tĂ©s, des valeurs, des identitĂ©s, des racines ou des langues abondent aujourdâhui, poussant les ethnologues Ă dĂ©velopper leurs analyses de la notion de transmission et dâapprentissage (quâil sâagisse de pratiques, de reprĂ©sentations ou dâĂ©motions). Et, ce faisant, Ă penser les mĂ©canismes complexes qui lient les individus et rendent possible la perpĂ©tuation du culturel