REVISTA ROMÂNĂ DE SOCIOLOGIE

Year XXVII, Nos. 1–2 • 2016

TRANSFORMATION OF TRADITIONAL RITUALS

Guest Editor Irina Stahl

C O N T E N T S

Foreword (Irina Stahl)

RITUALS CONFRONTED WITH MODERNITY

TIZIANA SOVERINO, Midsummer (Saint John’s Feast) in Ireland: The Old and the New

KINGA POVEDÁK, Aspects of Catholicism and Modernity through the Example of Christian Popular Music

AGNES HESZ, The Story of a Funeral Home: Ritual Modernization and Its Reception in a Transylvanian Village Community

REDISCOVERY AND TRANSFORMATION OF RITUALS

ANDERS GUSTAVSSON, Rediscovery and Transformation of Traditional Rituals Within a New Religious Movement in Sweden: The Oasis Movement

RITUALS IN EVOLUTION

ALEXANDRU RUSU, Demons and Exorcisms in the Roman Catholic Mind-Set: Probing the Western Demonological Mentality

AIGARS LIELBĀRDIS, The Tradition of May Devotions to the Virgin Mary in Latgale (Latvia): From the Past to the Present

MANUELA GHEORGHE, Confessional Affiliation of Romanians: A Historical and Statistical Perspective

IRINA STAHL, Has Romania Become Secular?

ACADEMIC LIFE

Regulating Customs – the 12th Annual International Conference of the SIEF Working group “The Ritual Year”, Findhorn (Scotland), 8–12 January 2016) (Thomas McKean, Irina Sedakova)

BOOK REVIEWS AND READING NOTES

ION PETRICĂ, Religiosity and Social Institutions in Romania (Religiozitatea şi instituţiile sociale în România), Iaşi, Editura Institutul European, 2013, 137 p. (Manuela Gheorghe); TATIANA MINNIYAKHMETOVA and KAMILA VELKOBORSKÁ (eds.), The Ritual Year 10. Magic in Rituals and Rituals in Magic, Innsbruck, Tartu:ELM Scholarly Press, 2015, 598 p. (Irina Stahl)

„Revista română de sociologie”, serie nouă, anul XXVII, nr. 1–2, p. 1–162, Bucureşti, 2016

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