How Soviet is the Religious Revival in Georgia: Tactics in Everyday Religiosity

Ketevan Gurchiani

Europe-Asia Studies, 2017, vol. 69, issue 3, 508-531

Abstract: This article explores everyday religiosity in post-Soviet Georgia based on multi-sited fieldwork and applying a genealogical approach. It looks at the use of tactics in negotiations between priests and believers. The article sees negotiations, prevalent in domestic religiosity and embodied practices, as a continuation of everyday Soviet tactics, particularly informal networks (Blat) and moonlighting (Khaltura). To understand how negotiations lead to greater control and an increase in religiosity, the article explores important features of the Georgian Orthodox Church and its specific development. The article concludes that tactics in this specific context strengthen the more powerful and reproduce dependency.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2017.1323324

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