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Monograph, 2019
This book explores the history and evolution of Inochentism, a controversial new religious moveme... more 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. It 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 in the English language 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.
Papers by James Kapalo
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Fordham University Press eBooks, Nov 2, 2021
This chapter addresses the transformation of the religious landscape in Soviet Moldavia from the ... more This chapter addresses the transformation of the religious landscape in Soviet Moldavia from the perspective of gender dynamics. Based on the testimonies of a group of women from the Turkish-speaking Gagauz Orthodox Christian minority, I explore their responses to the Khrushchev-era anti-religious campaigns and church closures of the 1950s and 1960s and their membership in an underground Orthodox dissent movement commonly referred to as Archangelism. The term domestication has been used by a number of scholars of religion to describe the relocation of religion to the domestic sphere during communism and the enhanced role that women played in ritual and the transmission of religion during this period. In Moldavia, however, an Orthodox religious underground with strong female leadership figures had already emerged during the right-wing dictatorship that preceded Soviet rule. In this chapter, I suggest that our understanding of domestic religion during communism should be expanded to include an awareness of earlier forms of Orthodox dissent in which the domestic sphere had become an important characteristic of the religious field. In so doing, I highlight some of the diverse ways in which the agency of Orthodox women shaped the religious field in Moldavia in the twentieth century.
Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religions, Dec 15, 2020
BRILL eBooks, Oct 26, 2011
This ethnographic study of Gagauz religion offers an original perspective on ‘folk religion’ as d... more This ethnographic study of Gagauz religion offers an original perspective on ‘folk religion’ as discourse and object of study. It is also the first monograph published in a Western language on this little-known European people’s history and culture.
BRILL eBooks, Oct 26, 2011
This ethnographic study of Gagauz religion offers an original perspective on ‘folk religion’ as d... more This ethnographic study of Gagauz religion offers an original perspective on ‘folk religion’ as discourse and object of study. It is also the first monograph published in a Western language on this little-known European people’s history and culture.
BRILL eBooks, Oct 26, 2011
This ethnographic study of Gagauz religion offers an original perspective on ‘folk religion’ as d... more This ethnographic study of Gagauz religion offers an original perspective on ‘folk religion’ as discourse and object of study. It is also the first monograph published in a Western language on this little-known European people’s history and culture.
Fieldwork in Religion, 2010
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG eBooks, 2018
Routledge eBooks, Jun 18, 2021
This book addresses the complex intersection of secret police operations and the formation of the... more This book addresses the complex intersection of secret police operations and the formation of the religious underground in communist-era Eastern Europe. It discusses how religious groups were perceived as dangerous to the totalitarian state whilst also being extremely vulnerable and yet at the same time very resourceful. It explores how this particular dynamic created the concept of the “religious underground” and produced an extremely rich secret police archival record. In a series of studies from across the region, the book explores the historical and legal context of secret police entanglement with religious groups, presents case studies on particular anti-religious operations and groups, offers methodological approaches to the secret police materials for the study of religions, and engages in contemporary ethical and political debates on the legacy and meaning of the archives in post-communism
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BRILL eBooks, Oct 26, 2011
This ethnographic study of Gagauz religion offers an original perspective on ‘folk religion’ as d... more This ethnographic study of Gagauz religion offers an original perspective on ‘folk religion’ as discourse and object of study. It is also the first monograph published in a Western language on this little-known European people’s history and culture.
BRILL eBooks, Oct 26, 2011
This ethnographic study of Gagauz religion offers an original perspective on ‘folk religion’ as d... more This ethnographic study of Gagauz religion offers an original perspective on ‘folk religion’ as discourse and object of study. It is also the first monograph published in a Western language on this little-known European people’s history and culture.
BRILL eBooks, Oct 26, 2011
This ethnographic study of Gagauz religion offers an original perspective on ‘folk religion’ as d... more This ethnographic study of Gagauz religion offers an original perspective on ‘folk religion’ as discourse and object of study. It is also the first monograph published in a Western language on this little-known European people’s history and culture.
Monograph, 2019
This book explores the history and evolution of Inochentism, a controversial new religious moveme... more 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. It 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 in the English language 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.
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Fordham University Press eBooks, Nov 2, 2021
This chapter addresses the transformation of the religious landscape in Soviet Moldavia from the ... more This chapter addresses the transformation of the religious landscape in Soviet Moldavia from the perspective of gender dynamics. Based on the testimonies of a group of women from the Turkish-speaking Gagauz Orthodox Christian minority, I explore their responses to the Khrushchev-era anti-religious campaigns and church closures of the 1950s and 1960s and their membership in an underground Orthodox dissent movement commonly referred to as Archangelism. The term domestication has been used by a number of scholars of religion to describe the relocation of religion to the domestic sphere during communism and the enhanced role that women played in ritual and the transmission of religion during this period. In Moldavia, however, an Orthodox religious underground with strong female leadership figures had already emerged during the right-wing dictatorship that preceded Soviet rule. In this chapter, I suggest that our understanding of domestic religion during communism should be expanded to include an awareness of earlier forms of Orthodox dissent in which the domestic sphere had become an important characteristic of the religious field. In so doing, I highlight some of the diverse ways in which the agency of Orthodox women shaped the religious field in Moldavia in the twentieth century.
Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religions, Dec 15, 2020
BRILL eBooks, Oct 26, 2011
This ethnographic study of Gagauz religion offers an original perspective on ‘folk religion’ as d... more This ethnographic study of Gagauz religion offers an original perspective on ‘folk religion’ as discourse and object of study. It is also the first monograph published in a Western language on this little-known European people’s history and culture.
BRILL eBooks, Oct 26, 2011
This ethnographic study of Gagauz religion offers an original perspective on ‘folk religion’ as d... more This ethnographic study of Gagauz religion offers an original perspective on ‘folk religion’ as discourse and object of study. It is also the first monograph published in a Western language on this little-known European people’s history and culture.
BRILL eBooks, Oct 26, 2011
This ethnographic study of Gagauz religion offers an original perspective on ‘folk religion’ as d... more This ethnographic study of Gagauz religion offers an original perspective on ‘folk religion’ as discourse and object of study. It is also the first monograph published in a Western language on this little-known European people’s history and culture.
Fieldwork in Religion, 2010
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG eBooks, 2018
Routledge eBooks, Jun 18, 2021
This book addresses the complex intersection of secret police operations and the formation of the... more This book addresses the complex intersection of secret police operations and the formation of the religious underground in communist-era Eastern Europe. It discusses how religious groups were perceived as dangerous to the totalitarian state whilst also being extremely vulnerable and yet at the same time very resourceful. It explores how this particular dynamic created the concept of the “religious underground” and produced an extremely rich secret police archival record. In a series of studies from across the region, the book explores the historical and legal context of secret police entanglement with religious groups, presents case studies on particular anti-religious operations and groups, offers methodological approaches to the secret police materials for the study of religions, and engages in contemporary ethical and political debates on the legacy and meaning of the archives in post-communism
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BRILL eBooks, Oct 26, 2011
This ethnographic study of Gagauz religion offers an original perspective on ‘folk religion’ as d... more This ethnographic study of Gagauz religion offers an original perspective on ‘folk religion’ as discourse and object of study. It is also the first monograph published in a Western language on this little-known European people’s history and culture.
BRILL eBooks, Oct 26, 2011
This ethnographic study of Gagauz religion offers an original perspective on ‘folk religion’ as d... more This ethnographic study of Gagauz religion offers an original perspective on ‘folk religion’ as discourse and object of study. It is also the first monograph published in a Western language on this little-known European people’s history and culture.
BRILL eBooks, Oct 26, 2011
This ethnographic study of Gagauz religion offers an original perspective on ‘folk religion’ as d... more This ethnographic study of Gagauz religion offers an original perspective on ‘folk religion’ as discourse and object of study. It is also the first monograph published in a Western language on this little-known European people’s history and culture.
BRILL eBooks, Oct 26, 2011
This ethnographic study of Gagauz religion offers an original perspective on ‘folk religion’ as d... more This ethnographic study of Gagauz religion offers an original perspective on ‘folk religion’ as discourse and object of study. It is also the first monograph published in a Western language on this little-known European people’s history and culture.
BRILL eBooks, Oct 26, 2011
This ethnographic study of Gagauz religion offers an original perspective on ‘folk religion’ as d... more This ethnographic study of Gagauz religion offers an original perspective on ‘folk religion’ as discourse and object of study. It is also the first monograph published in a Western language on this little-known European people’s history and culture.
The Secret Police and the Religious Underground in Communist and Post- Communist Eastern Europe, 2022
This book addresses the complex intersection of secret police operations and the formation of the... more This book addresses the complex intersection of secret police operations and the formation of the religious underground in communist-era Eastern Europe. It discusses how religious groups were perceived as dangerous to the totalitarian state whilst also being extremely vulnerable and yet at
the same time very resourceful. It explores how this particular dynamic created the concept of the “religious underground” and produced an extremely rich secret police archival record. In a series of studies from across the region, the book explores the historical and legal context of
secret police entanglement with religious groups, presents case studies on particular antireligious operations and groups, offers methodological approaches to the secret police materials for the study of religions, and engages in contemporary ethical and political debates on the
legacy and meaning of the archives in post-communism.