Visual media and the reconfiguration of divinity in Moldovan radical religion

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dc.contributor.authorKapalό, James A.
dc.contributor.funderHorizon 2020en
dc.contributor.funderEuropean Research Councilen
dc.contributor.funderRoyal Irish Academyen
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-25T10:42:17Z
dc.date.available2021-05-25T10:42:17Z
dc.date.issued2022-10
dc.date.updated2021-05-25T10:10:09Z
dc.descriptionThis research is part of the project Creative Agency and Religious Minorities: Hidden Galleries in the Secret Police Archives in Central and Eastern Europe. The project has received funding from the European Research 2020 research and innovation programme No. 677355.en
dc.description.abstractThis paper explores the power of the visual to contest and subvert dominant religious beliefs and doctrines. Through an exploration of Inochentism, and its later off-shoot Archangelism, ‘home-grown’ religious movements in twentieth and twenty first century Moldova, I trace the power of visual media, when combined with folk narratives, prophesy and visionary literature, to contest state and church authority, embody the sacred and transform belief. The two movements discussed, driven underground by nationalist and communist regimes in Romania and Soviet Moldavia, deployed visual media in the form of vernacular icons, photographs and photomontages, as powerful tools for critique and as a means of mobilizing belief during periods of intense persecution by the state. Based on a series of interviews with members of these movements between 2011 and 2014, on secret police archival sources and on Soviet propaganda publications, I examine how, under the pressure of state atheist ideology and political oppression, relations between divine and human, this world and the next, and the material and immaterial were re-imagined, re-presented and embodied by Moldovan village people.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationKapalό, J. A. (2022) 'Visual Media and the Reconfiguration of Divinity in Moldovan Radical Religion', in Bowman, M. and Valk, Ü. (eds). Contesting Authorities: Vernacular Challenges, Strategies and Counterpower, Sheffield: Equinox Publishing. isbn: 9781781792377en
dc.identifier.isbn9781781792377
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/11379
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherEquinox Publishingen
dc.relation.ispartofContesting Authorities: Vernacular Challenges, Strategies and Counterpower
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020::ERC::ERC-STG/677355/EU/Creative Agency and Religious Minorities: ‘hidden galleries’ in the secret police archives in 20th Century Central and Eastern Europe/Hidden Galleriesen
dc.relation.urihttps://www.equinoxpub.com/home/contesting-authority-vernacular-knowledge-and-alternative-beliefs-marion-bowman-and-ulo-valk/
dc.relation.urihttps://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=29211
dc.rights© 2022 Equinox Publishing Ltden
dc.subjectInochentismen
dc.subjectArchangelismen
dc.subjectRussian Orthodoxyen
dc.subjectIconsen
dc.subjectPhotomontageen
dc.subjectMoldovaen
dc.subjectRomaniaen
dc.subjectSecret policeen
dc.subjectSecret policeen
dc.titleVisual media and the reconfiguration of divinity in Moldovan radical religionen
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