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Inochentism and Orthodox Christianity

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Inochentism and Orthodox Christianity book

Religious Dissent in the Russian and Romanian Borderlands

Inochentism and Orthodox Christianity

DOI link for Inochentism and Orthodox Christianity

Inochentism and Orthodox Christianity book

Religious Dissent in the Russian and Romanian Borderlands
ByJames A. Kapaló
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2019
eBook Published 5 June 2019
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315588698
Pages 296 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315588698
SubjectsArea Studies, Humanities
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Kapaló, J. (2019). Inochentism and Orthodox Christianity. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315588698

This book explores the history and evolution of Inochentism, a controversial new religious movement that emerged in the Russian and Romanian borderlands of what is now Moldova and Ukraine in the context of the Russian revolutionary period. Inochentism centres around the charismatic preaching of Inochentie, a monk of the Orthodox Church, who inspired an apocalyptic movement that was soon labelled heretical by the Orthodox Church and persecuted as socially and politically subversive by Soviet and Romanian state authorities.

Inochentism and Orthodox Christianity charts the emergence and development of Inochentism through the twentieth century based on hagiographies, oral testimonies, press reports, state legislation and a wealth of previously unstudied police and secret police archival material. Focusing on the role that religious persecution and social marginalization played in the transformation of this understudied and much vilified group, the author explores a series of counter-narratives that challenge the mainstream historiography of the movement and highlight the significance of the concept of ‘liminality’ in relation to the study of new religious movements and Orthodoxy.

This book constitutes a systematic historical study of an Eastern European ‘home-grown’ religious movement taking a ‘grass-roots’ approach to the problem of minority religious identities in twentieth century Eastern Europe. Consequently, it will be of great interest to scholars of new religions movements, religious history and Russian and Eastern European studies.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |14 pages

Introduction

WithJames A. Kapaló

chapter 1|40 pages

Between hagiography and history

The life of Inochentie of Balta
WithJames A. Kapaló

chapter 2|19 pages

“The mad doctrine of the incarnation of the Holy Spirit”

WithJames A. Kapaló

chapter 3|33 pages

“All wells will run dry”

Belief and practice amongst the Balta pilgrims
WithJames A. Kapaló

chapter 4|32 pages

Inochentism in interwar Romania

WithJames A. Kapaló

chapter 5|39 pages

Visions of the underground

Archangelism in interwar Romania
WithJames A. Kapaló

chapter 6|11 pages

“John’s flock”

Ioan Zlotea and the monastic tradition
WithJames A. Kapaló

chapter 7|33 pages

Return to the Garden of Paradise

Inochentism under Stalin and Antonescu
WithJames A. Kapaló

chapter 8|34 pages

Golgotha

The Inochentist underground in Soviet Moldavia
WithJames A. Kapaló

chapter 9|15 pages

Epilogue

WithJames A. Kapaló
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