<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This article<xref ref-type="fn"><sup>*</sup></xref> offers an anthropological analysis of a conflict over the use of a set of ‘healing chains’ and other focal objects kept in the Orthodox Christian monastery of Saints Kosmas and Damian in Kuklen, Bulgaria. In a nutshell, the conflict captures the leading religious imageries propagated by the custodians of the monastery on the one hand, and the spiritual leaders of a new religious movement, so-called Deunovians, on the other. The analysis helps situate some of the significant changes currently affecting the religious culture of Orthodox Christians in Bulgaria within a broader social and cultural context.</p></abstract>

This article* offers an anthropological analysis of a conflict over the use of a set of ‘healing chains’ and other focal objects kept in the Orthodox Christian monastery of Saints Kosmas and Damian in Kuklen, Bulgaria. In a nutshell, the conflict captures the leading religious imageries propagated by the custodians of the monastery on the one hand, and the spiritual leaders of a new religious movement, so-called Deunovians, on the other. The analysis helps situate some of the significant changes currently affecting the religious culture of Orthodox Christians in Bulgaria within a broader social and cultural context.

Healing Chains, Relationships of Power and Competing Religious Imageries in the Monastery of Saints Kosmas and Damian in Kuklen (Bulgaria)

Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw, Ul. Żurawia 4, 00-503 Warsaw,

Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics

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This article* offers an anthropological analysis of a conflict over the use of a set of ‘healing chains’ and other focal objects kept in the Orthodox Christian...

Healing Chains, Relationships of Power and Competing Religious Imageries in the Monastery of Saints Kosmas and Damian in Kuklen (Bulgaria)

Publié en ligne: 18 sept. 2016

Pages: 71 - 99

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jef-2016-0004

Mots clés
healing chain, Orthodox Christians, Deunovians, religious imageries, Bulgaria,

© 2016 Magdalena Lubanska, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Healing Chains, Relationships of Power and Competing Religious Imageries in the Monastery of Saints Kosmas and Damian in Kuklen (Bulgaria)

Publié en ligne: 18 sept. 2016

Pages: 71 - 99

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jef-2016-0004

Mots cléshealing chain, Orthodox Christians, Deunovians, religious imageries, Bulgaria,

© 2016 Magdalena Lubanska, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Mots clés
healing chain, Orthodox Christians, Deunovians, religious imageries, Bulgaria,