From Folklore to Esotericism and Back: Neo-Paganism in Serbia
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/pome.30374Keywords:
Neo-Paganism, Esotericism,Abstract
The article give an overview of Neo-Pagan scene in Serbia grouped in two camps, Wiccan and Slavic, while showing at the same time the fluid character of division. Broader cultural context (Romanticism and cultural reception of folklore) is provided as an interpretational key. Polarity esotericism/folklore reflect some deeper currents within national culture showing Neo-Paganism thus not to be "odd" or "fringe" but as an alternative variant of "mainstream" cultural concepts.References
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?to dumajut u?jonie o Velesovoj knige [What scholars think about the Book of Veles]. Saint Petersburg: Nauka, 2004.
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Littleton, C. Scott. The New Comparative Mythology. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973.
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Luhrmann, Tanya. Persuasions of the Witch Craft: Ritual Magic in Contemporary England. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991.
Máchal, Jan, “Slavic Mythology.” In The Mythology of All Races, vol. 3, 217–330. New York: Cooper Square, 1964.
Magliocco, Sabina. “Italian-American Stregheria and Wicca: Ethnic Ambivalence in American Neopaganism.” In Modern Paganism in World Cultures, edited by Michael Strmiska, 55–86. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2005.
——. Witching Culture: Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
Meyer, C. H., ed. Fontes historiae religionis slavicae. Berlin: De Gruyter, 1931.
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Shnirelman, Viktor. Russkoe rodnoverie. Neoyazychestvo i nacionalizm v sovremenoj Rossii. Moscow: Izdateljstvo BBI. 2012.
Strmiska, Michael. “The Music of the Past in Modern Baltic Paganism.” Nova Religio 8 (2005): 39–58. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2005.8.3.39.
——. “Paganism-Inspired Folk Music, Folk Music-Inspired Paganism, and New Cultural Fusions in Lithuania and Latvia.” In Handbook of New Religions and Cultural Productions, edited by Carole Cusack and Alex Norman, 349–98. Leiden: Brill, 2012.
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Aitamurto, Kaarina. “Paganism, Traditionalism, Nationalism. Narratives of Russian Rodnoverie.” PhD diss., University of Helsinki, 2011.
——. “Neoyazychestvo or Rodnoverie? Reflection, Ethics and the Ideal of Religious Tolerance in the Study of Religion.” In Obshchestvo ka so-bytie: “Sistema” i “zhiznennyi mir,” edited by V. I. Razumov, 53–70. Omsk: SIBIT, 2007.
——. “Russian Rodnoverie. Negotiating Individual Traditionalism.” CESNUR. http://www.cesnur.org/2007/bord_aitamurto.htm,
Aitamurto, Karina, and Alexey Gaidukov. “Russian Rodnoverie: Six Portraits of a Movement.” Modern Pagan and Native Faith Movements in Central and Eastern Europe, edited by Kaarina Aitamurto and Scott Simpson. Durham: Acumen, 2013.
Bausinger, Hermann. Etnologija. Beograd: Biblioteka XX vek, 2002. Originally published as Volkskunde. Tu?bingen: Tübinger Vereinigung für Volkskunde, 1999.
——. “Zur Kritik der Folklorismuskritik.” In Populus Revisus. Beiträge zur Erforschung der Gegenwart, 61–75. Tu?bingen: Tu?binger Vereinigung fu?r Volkskunde, 1966.
Berger, Helen. A Community of Witches. Contemporary Neo-Paganism and Witchcraft in the United States. Columbia: University of South Carolina. 1999.
?rni?, Aleš. “Neopaganism in Slovenia.” In Modern Pagan and Native Faith Movement in Central and Eastern Europe, edited by Kaarina Aitamurto and Scott Simpson, 182–94. Durham: Acumen, 2013.
?to dumajut u?jonie o Velesovoj knige [What scholars think about the Book of Veles]. Saint Petersburg: Nauka, 2004.
Davidsen, Markus Altena. “What Is Wrong with Pagan Studies?” Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 24 (2012): 183–99. https://doi.org/10.1163/157006812X634881.
Doyle White, Ethan. “In Defense of Pagan Studies: A Response to Davidsen’s Critique.” The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies 14 (2012): 5–21. http://doi.org/10.1558/pome.v14i1.5.
——. “Theoretical, Terminological, and Taxonomic Trouble in the Academic Study of Contemporary Paganism: A Case for Reform.” The Pomegranate 18, no. 1 (2016): 31–59. https://doi.org/10.1558/pome.v18i1.28457
Djurdjevi?, Gordan. “Hidden Wisdom in the Ill-Ordered House. Short Survey of Occultism in Former Yugoslavia.” Occultism in Global Perspective, edited by Henrik Bogdan and Gordan Djurdjevi?, 79–100. London: Equinox, 2013.
Drews, Peter. Herder und die Slawen: Materialien zur Wirkungsgeschichte bis zur Mitte des 19 Jahrhunderts. Munich: Otto Sagner, 1990.
Drury, Nevill. Stealing Fire from Heaven. The Rise of Modern Western Magic. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Eribon,Didier. Faut-il brûler Dumézil? Paris: Flammarion, 1992.
Di Vona, Piero. Metafisica e politica in Julius Evola. Padova: Edizioni di Ar, 2000.
François, Stéphane. Les paganismes de la Nouvelle Droite (1980–2004). https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00442649.
Gamkrelidze, Thomas V., and Vjacheslav V. Ivanov. Indo-European Language and Indo-Europeans. Berlin: De Gruyter, 1995.
Ga?dukov, A. V. “Molodezhnaia subkul’tura slavianskogo neoiazychestva v Peterburge.” Molodezhnye dvizheniia i subkul ‘tury Sankt-Peterburga: Sociologiia i antropologicheski? analiz, edited by V. Kostiushev, 25–51. Saint Peterburg: Institut sociologii RAN, 1999.
Hanegraaff, Wouter. New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought. Leiden: Brill, 1996.
Ga?dukov, AlexyV. “Molodezhnaia subkul’tura slavianskogo neoiazychestva v Peterburge.” Molodezhnye dvizheniia i subkul ‘tury Sankt-Peterburga: Sociologiia i antropologicheski? analiz, edited by V. Kostiushev, 25–51. Saint Petersburg: Institut sociologii RAN, 1999.
Grasshoff, Helmut, Gerhard Ziegengeist, and Ulf Lehmann, eds. Johann Gottfried Herder: zur Herder-Rezeption in Ost- und Südosteuropa. Berlin, DDR: Akademie Verlag, 1978.
Gurko, A. V. “Neoiazychestvo v Belarusi: predposylki i uslovia vozniknovenia, organizacionnye formy, perspektivy.” Neoiazychestvo na prostorah Evrazii. Edited by V. A. Shnirelman, 68–79. Moscow: Bible?sko-bogoslovski? institut sv. apostola Andreia, 2001.
Harvey, Graham. “Inventing Paganisms: Making Nature.” The Invention of Sacred Tradition, edited by James R. Lewis and Olav Hammer, 277–90. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Hutton, Ronald. Afterword to Ten Years of Triumph of the Moon: Academic Approaches to Studying Magic and the Occult, edited by Dave Evans and Dave Green. N.p.: Hidden Publishing, 2009.
——. Witches, Druids and King Arthur. London: Hambledon Continuum, 2006.
Iashin, B. A. “Cerkov’ pravoslavnyh staroverov-inglingov kak primer neoiazycheskogo kul’ta.” In Neoiazychestvo na prostorah Evrazii, edited by V. A. Shnirelman, 56-67. Moscow: Bible?sko-bogoslovski? institut sv. apostola Andreia, 2001.
Ivakhiv Adrian.” In Search of Deeper Identities Neopaganism and ‘Native Faith’ in Contemporary Ukraine.” Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 8 (2005): 7–38. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2005.8.3.7.
——. “The Revival of Ukrainian Native Faith.” In Modern Paganism in World Cultures, edited by Michael Strmiska, 209–39. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2005.
Kavykin, O. I. “Rodnovery”: Samoidentifikaciia neoiazychnikov v sovremeno? Rossii. Moscow: Rossi?skaia akademia nauk, Institut Afriki, 2007.
?encis, Toms. A Disciplinary History of Latvian Mythology. Tartu: University of Tartu Press, 2012.
Koenig Peter-Robert. Ordo Templi Orientis Phenomenon. http://www.parareligion.ch/sunrise/naskov.htm
Laruelle, Marlène. “The Rodnoverje Movement: The Search for Pre-Christian Ancestry and the Occult.” In New Age of Russia: Occult and Esoteric Dimensions edited by Birgit Menzel, Michael Hagemeister, and Bernice Glatzer-Rosenthal, 293–310. Munich: Verlag Otto Sagner, 2012.
Lesiv, Mariya, The Return of Ancestral Gods: Modern Ukrainian Paganism as an Alternative Vision for a Nation. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013
Lewis, James. “Celts, Druids and the Invention of Tradition.” In Handbook of Contemporary Paganism, edited by James R. Lewis and Murphy Pizza, 479–93. Leiden: Brill, 2009.
Littleton, C. Scott. The New Comparative Mythology. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973.
Lozica, Ivan. “Towards the Other Mythology.” Collegium Antropologicum. 32 (2008): 1023–33.
Luhrmann, Tanya. Persuasions of the Witch Craft: Ritual Magic in Contemporary England. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991.
Máchal, Jan, “Slavic Mythology.” In The Mythology of All Races, vol. 3, 217–330. New York: Cooper Square, 1964.
Magliocco, Sabina. “Italian-American Stregheria and Wicca: Ethnic Ambivalence in American Neopaganism.” In Modern Paganism in World Cultures, edited by Michael Strmiska, 55–86. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2005.
——. Witching Culture: Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
Meyer, C. H., ed. Fontes historiae religionis slavicae. Berlin: De Gruyter, 1931.
Moroz, Evgeni, and K. Roussellet, “Le védisme, version païenne de l’idée russe,” Revue d’études comparatives Est-Ouest 24 (1993): 183–97.
Nekljudov, S. Y. “Struktura i funkciya mifa.” In Sovremennaya rossiiskaya mifologiya, edited by M. V. Ahmetova, 9–26. Moscow: RGGU, 2005.
Olender, Maurice. Race and Erudition. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009.
Primary Chronicle. http://www.mgh-bibliothek.de/dokumente/a/a011458.pdf
Puhvel, Jaan. Comparative Mythology. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1989.
Radulovi?, Nemanja. “Slavia Esoterica between East and West.” Ricerche slavistiche 13 (59) (2015): 73–102.
Shnirelman, Viktor. Russkoe rodnoverie. Neoyazychestvo i nacionalizm v sovremenoj Rossii. Moscow: Izdateljstvo BBI. 2012.
Strmiska, Michael. “The Music of the Past in Modern Baltic Paganism.” Nova Religio 8 (2005): 39–58. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2005.8.3.39.
——. “Paganism-Inspired Folk Music, Folk Music-Inspired Paganism, and New Cultural Fusions in Lithuania and Latvia.” In Handbook of New Religions and Cultural Productions, edited by Carole Cusack and Alex Norman, 349–98. Leiden: Brill, 2012.
Vukeli?, Deniver. “Problem dvovjerja kao ?imbenika hrvatskog kulturnog identiteta.” Studia mythologica slavica. 15 (2012): 343–64.
Watkins, Calvert. How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
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Radulovic, N. (2017). From Folklore to Esotericism and Back: Neo-Paganism in Serbia. Pomegranate, 19(1), 47-76. https://doi.org/10.1558/pome.30374
