"Progressivism for Souls - Literature and Spirituality in the (Post-)Communist Worlds" - Site du Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités

« Progressivism for Souls – Literature and Spirituality in the (Post-)Communist Worlds »

10.00: Sergei SHTYRKOV (Yerevan Centre for International Education & GSRL) Undisciplined holiness: The lives of village holy fools in early Post-Soviet Orthodox hagiography
10.30: Marie-Paule HILLE (EHESS, Paris) The miracle as grammar and narrative of sainthood: The ‘window miracle’ in the hagiographic culture of the Xidaotang
11.30: Gianfranco BRIA (University of Rome La Sapienza) Narrating neo-Bektashism in post-Socialist Albania: Literature, esotericism and the making of national heritage in Moikom Zeqo’s work
12.00: Tommaso PREVIATO (Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen–Nuremberg) ‘Battling the nafs by moonlight’: The poetics of night vigils in Liu Zhi’s Wugeng Yue (‘Five lunar phases’) and the Yangzu Quanshu (Collected works of Yang Baoyuan)
14.00: Valeria GAZIZOVA (University of Heidelberg & GSRL) Inscribed cliﬀs and textual layering: Competing narratives and afterlives of Oirat Buddhist landscapes in Central Asia
14.30 Aleksandr LVOV (independent researcher, Jerusalem) A sainthood with Soviet patina: The keepers of Jewish learning in the USSR, and their memory
15.30: Jeanne KORMINA (Yerevan Centre for International Education & GSRL) Unorthodox hagiography: Monarchism in Soviet poetry and adventure literature
16.00: Stéphane A. DUDOIGNON (CNRS/GSRL, Paris) A post-gulag literary spirituality: Sunni Muslim gnosticism in the Tajik SSR, from WWII to independence