Spiritual Power, Witchcraft and Protestants: Conflicting Approaches to Religious Belonging and Practice in the Komi Countryside

In this article we aim to explore how vernacular ideas about spiritual power, words, and silence shape perceptions of religion and witchcraft among the rural Komi people, whose predominant religion is Russian Orthodoxy. In this framework we investigate local ideas of witchcraft, belonging, and stran...

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Authors: Leete, Art 1969- (Author) ; Koosa, Piret (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2022
In: Numen
Year: 2022, Volume: 69, Issue: 5/6, Pages: 517-541
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Komi / Russisch-Orthodoxe Kirche / Evangelical movement / Mission (international law / Strangeness / Belief in witches / Animism
IxTheo Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
BB Indigenous religions
CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations
CH Christianity and Society
KBK Europe (East)
KDD Protestant Church
KDF Orthodox Church
KDG Free church
RJ Mission; missiology
Further subjects:B Komi
B Animism
B Orthodox
B Witches
B Protestant
B Russia
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