‘Folk’ sacred places (informality, hybridity)
Contemporary multi-religious / multi-ethnic societies in the Caucasus
Social meaning of pilgrimage and its transformation
Practices of Sharing and Non-Sharing
Diversity of field sites: rural & urban; North and South Caucasus (including all three South Caucasus republics and Abkhazia); Jewish, Christian and Islamic communities
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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Tsypylma Darieva, Florian Mühlfried and Kevin Tuite
Chapter 1. Between 'Great' and 'Little' Traditions? Situating Shia Saints in Contemporary Baku
Tsypylma Darieva
Chapter 2. Women as Bread-Bakers and Ritual-Makers: Gender, Visibility and Sacred Space in Upper Svaneti
Nino Tserediani, Kevin Tuite and Paata Bukhrashvili
Chapter 3. The Chain of Seven Pilgrimages in Kotaik, Armenia: Between Folk and Official Christianity
Levon Abrahamian, Zaruhi Hambardzumyan, Gayane Shagoyan, and Gohar Stepanyan
Chapter 4. Sacred Sites in the Western Caucasus and the Black Sea Region: Typology, Hybridization, Functioning
Igor V. Kuznetsov
Chapter 5. The Power of the Shrine and Creative Performances in Ingiloy Sacred Rituals
Nino Aivazishvili-Gehne
Chapter 6. Accompanying the Souls of the Dead: The Transformation of Sacral Time and Encounters
Hege Toje
Chapter 7. Not Sharing the Sacra
Florian Mühlfried
Chapter 8. Informal Shrines and Social Transformations: The Murids as New Religious Mediators among Yezidis in Armenia
Hamlet Melkumyan
Chapter 9. Sharing the Not-Sacred: Rabati and Displays of Multiculturalism
Silvia Serrano
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