Copyright

Julie McBrien and Vlad Naumescu

Published On

2022-10-31

Page Range

pp. 51–80

3. The ‘Post’ in Perspective

Revisiting the Post-socialist Religious Question in Central Asia and Central and Eastern Europe

Chapter of: Anthropology of Transformation: From Europe to Asia and Back (pp. 51–80)

Contributors

Julie McBrien

(author)
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director, Amsterdam Research Center for Gender and Sexuality at University of Amsterdam

Julie McBrien is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam and the Director of the Amsterdam Research Center for Gender and Sexuality. Her research interests include religion, secularism, gender, and development. She is the author of From Belonging to Belief: Modern Secularisms and the Construction of Religion in Kyrgyzstan (2017).

Vlad Naumescu

(author)
Associate Professor of Anthropology at Central European University
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0561-4664

Vlad Naumescu is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Central European University (Vienna/Budapest). He has conducted extensive fieldwork in Eastern Europe and South India looking at practices, institutions and politics that shape Orthodox communities. He is the author of Modes of Religiosity in Eastern Christianity: Religious Processes and Social Change in Ukraine (2007), co-editor of Churches In-between: Greek Catholic Churches in Postsocialist Europe (2008), and a forthcoming monograph on ritual, history and ethics in the Russian Old Belief.