Bless to Spoil: Revanchism, Nationalism and Defilement in an anti-Mosque Ritual in Bucharest, Romania
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Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F20%3A10442357" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/20:10442357 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=gHFyFf6N3m" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=gHFyFf6N3m</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.19272/202004901011" target="_blank" >10.19272/202004901011</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Bless to Spoil: Revanchism, Nationalism and Defilement in an anti-Mosque Ritual in Bucharest, Romania
Original language description
Drawing on ethnographic data gathered in Bucharest in 2015 and 2016, the present paper aims at unpacking a specific ritual of defilement and consecration. Fearing that the erection of a mosque would be the cornerstone of a possible Islamisation of Romania, two activists elaborated a strategy to stop the project. First, they defiled the respective land by digging some pieces of pork bought in a supermarket, and then ((re-Christianized}} the place by driving hundreds of crosses and celebrating a ritual for blessing it. Following Maurice Bloch's reflections on ritual practice, I dwell on the complementarity of functional and symbolic action in a ritual performance composed of two different moments: defilement (of the "other" or aimed at it) and re-consecration (for or aimed at the "self "). The paper ends arguing that expressions of contemporary inter-religious and inter-ethnic unrest - such as the anti-mosque affair in Bucharest - are better understood in the light of how protesters conceive their historical identity.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>ost</sub> - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50404 - Anthropology, ethnology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EF18_053%2F0016976" target="_blank" >EF18_053/0016976: International mobility of research, technical and administrative staff at the Charles University</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Historia Religionum
ISSN
2035-6455
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Volume of the periodical
2020
Issue of the periodical within the volume
12
Country of publishing house
IT - ITALY
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
149-164
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
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