Memory and Religion from a Postsecular Perspective

1. Introduction:Memory and Religion from a Postsecular Perspective

Zuzanna Bogumil and Yuliya Yurchuk

Part 1: Memory and Religion: Theoretical Considerations

2. Religion and Collective Memory of the Last Century: General Reflections and Russian Vicissitudes

Aleksandr Agadjanian

3. Sacred Religio-Secular Symbols, National Myths and Collective Memory

Geneviève Zubrzycki

Part 2: Postsecularity and Politics of Memory

4. The Armenian Genocide: Extermination, Memory, Sacralization

Adam Pomieciński

5. Building a Patrimonial Church: How the Orthodox Churches in Ukraine Use the Past

Yuliya Yurchuk　

6. ‘God is in Truth, Not in Power!’: The Re-militarization of the Cult of St Alexander Nevsky in Contemporary Russian Cultural Memory

Liliya Berezhnaya

7. The Martyrdom of Jozef Tiso: The Entanglements of the Sacred and Secular in Post-War Catholic Memories

Agáta Šústová Drelová

8. Remembering and Enforced Forgetting: The Dynamics of Remembering Cardinal József Mindszenty in the Cold War Decades

Réka Földváryné Kiss

Part 3: Post-Conflict Memories

9. Evocation and the June Fourth Tiananmen Candlelight Vigil: A Ritual-Theological Hermeneutics

Lap Yan Kung

10. Religious Echoes of the Donbas Conflict: The Discourses of the Christian, Muslim and Jewish Communities in Ukraine

Nadia Zasanska

11. Official Quests, Vernacular Answers: The Macedonian Orthodox Church – Ohrid Archbishopric (MOC-OA) as a Memory Actor in the Post-Conflict Republic of North Macedonia (2001–19)

Naum Trajanovski

12. Negotiating the Sacred at Non-Sites of Memory. The Religious Imaginary of Post-Genocidal Society

Karina Jarzyńska

Part 4: Media and Postsecular Memory

13. The Crimean Tatars’ Memory of Deportation and Islam

Elmira Muratova

14. The Soviet Past in Contemporary Orthodox Hymnography and Iconography

Per-Arne Bodin

15. Whose Church is It? The Nonreligious Use of Religious Architecture in Eastern Germany

Agnieszka Halemba

Part 5: Transnational and Vernacular Memories

16. The Political Use of the Cult of St Tryphon of Pechenga and Its Potential as a Bridge-Builder in the Arctic

Elina Kahla

17. ‘Vernacular’ and ‘Official’ Memories: Looking Beyond the Annual Hasidic Pilgrimages to Uman

Alla Marchenko

18. Memory as a Religious Mission? Religion and Nation in Local Commemoration Practices in Contemporary Poland

Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper

19. Critical Juxtaposition in the Postwar Japanese Mnemoscape: Saint Maksymilian Kolbe of Auschwitz and the Atomic Bomb Victims of Nagasaki

Jie-Hyun Lim

Afterword. From ‘Religion as a Chain of Memory’ to Memory from a Postsecular Perspective

Kathy Rousselet

Biography

Zuzanna Bogumił, PhD, works at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology at the Polish Academy of Sciences. Her published works include Gulag Memories: The Rediscovery and Commemoration of Russia's Repressive Past (2018) and a co-authored study titled Milieux de mémoire in Late Modernity: Local Communities, Religion, and Historical Politics (2019).

Yuliya Yurchuk, PhD, teaches history at Umeå University, Sweden. She specializes in memory, the history of religion and Eastern Europe. She is the author of the book Reordering of Meaningful Worlds: Memory of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army in Post-Soviet Ukraine (2014).

'Up until this volume, no scholarly study has been dedicated to exploring the intersection of memory and religion. To this end, Memory and Religion in Postsecular Persepctive offers new vistas on how political and social change comes into being by reinterpreting well known theories.'

Cathrine Wanner, Pennsylvania State University, USA

'The book states fundamental questions of relations and boundaries between sacred and profane, religious and secular, political uses of religious narratives and media, the features and contexts of memory processes within the sphere of religion in its institutional and vernacular, lived forms. Elaborating such important issues needs intellectual courage and sensitivity allowing the in-depth and refreshing analyses, that we can find in the book.'

Małgorzata Zawiła, Jagiellonian University, Poland