No. 2 (34) 2016
Table of Contents
Main Theme
- Editorial
- “Alanian Princess, Princess of Vladimir”: Maria Yasynia, Russian-Ossetian Connections, and Conservative Family Values
- Akadak and Ldzaa-nykh: Towards a History of Hybrid Cults in Abkhazia
- “What Do We Believe?”: Rebirth of “Traditional Religion” in Post-War Abkhazia
- Religion, Politics and Modernity in Georgia: The Case of May 17th, 2013
- Debating the Limits of the Georgian Church’s Participation in Public Life
- The Time of Cathedrals: Religious Buildings and Political Legitimation in Post-Soviet Georgia
- The Social Semiotics of the “Migrant” Churches in Armenia
- The Market of Muslim Goods and Services in Dagestan: Practices of Consumption and Public Debates
- The “Boneless” Saint from Baku: Muslim Pilgrimage in a Secular City
- The Cult of Monk Gabriel: Institutionalization of Popular Religion and its Political Dimension in Georgia
- «Praying Youth» as a Subculture of the Kabardino-Balkar Society
- Cohesion of Religious Communities in the Situation of Conflict: A Case Study of Confrontations around Imam in a Dagestani Village
- The Church In-Between: Armenian Catholics in Post-Soviet Armenia and Georgia
- Ethnos, Nation, Religion: Recent Scholarship and Societal Processes in the South Caucasus
Book Reviews
- Rakhmanin, A.Yu. et al. (eds) (2016) Religiovedenie: uchebnik i praktikum dlia akademicheskogo bakalavriata [The Study of Religion: Textbook and Practical Work for Academic Bachelor Students]. Moscow: Iurait. — 307 p. (In Russian)
- Gutierrez, Cathy (ed.) (2015) Handbook of Spiritualism and Channeling. Leiden, Boston: Brill. — 512 p.