James A Kapaló
Biographic Data
| ID | 1609992 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James A Kapaló |
| GIVEN NAMES | James A |
| FAMILY NAME | Kapaló |
| SIGNATURE | KAPALÓ J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Cork |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6920-8828 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Between the Sociologist and the Secret Police
This article addresses the peculiar challenges and opportunities of researching lived religion in archives produced during the communist era. Inspired by the material turn in the study of religions, this article discusses the significance and uses of collections of the material traces of religion found in communist-era archives in Hungary. Using the private archive of Zsuzsa Horváth (1950–1995), a sociologist of religion who worked in 1970s and 1…
Sources on the Political and Military Situation among Moldovans and Germans on the Left Bank of the Dniester, 1920–1921, from the Soviet-Era Archives in Ukraine
To Make a Village Soviet
Journal Article To Make a Village Soviet: Jehovah's Witnesses and the Transformation in a Postwar Ukrainian Borderland. By Emily B. Baran Get access To Make a Village Soviet: Jehovah's Witnesses and the Transformation in a Postwar Ukrainian Borderland. By Emily B. Baran. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022. 234pp. $37.95 CAD paper. James A Kapaló James A Kapaló University College Cork, Cork, Ireland E-mail: [email protected] Search for …
La comida como resistencia religiosa
Este artículo destaca la importancia de la comida como medio para sostener y hacer crecer las comunidades religiosas clandestinas durante el comunismo y como forma de resistencia espiritual frente a un estado comunista. Basándose en un conjunto de informes elaborados por confidentes internos de una operación dirigida contra una red clandestina de disidentes ortodoxos, los denominados inochentistas-estilistas, en la Rumanía de los años 50 y 60, el…
Introduction. Visual Ethics after Communism
This special issue problematizes the often-uncritical use of images in publications and displays about communism. It poses a number of questions for anthropologists, historians, museologists and others: when does an image or a museum display present itself as problematic and for whom? Under what circumstances is it ethically justifiable to exhibit or publish such images or, conversely, to put images aside, leaving them undisplayed? When do argume…
Inochentism and Orthodox Christianity
This book explores the history and evolution of Inochentism, a controversial new religious movement that emerged in the Russian and Romanian borderlands of what is now Moldova and Ukraine in the context of the Russian revolutionary period. Inochentism centres around the charismatic preaching of Inochentie, a monk of the Orthodox Church, who inspired an apocalyptic movement that was soon labelled heretical by the Orthodox Church and persecuted as …
The Appearance of Saints
I present here examples of the photographic presence of a religious minority community in the secret police archives in ex-communist Eastern Europe. The use of secret police archives by researchers to trace the history of repression and collaboration and to understand the methods employed by totalitarian regimes to control their populations is well established. The significance of these archives for the study of material religion, however, has be…
Liminal” Orthodoxies on the Margins of Empire
In the 20th century, the Russian Orthodox Church, the Romanian Orthodox Church, and the Soviet atheist state each pursued missions that attempted to transform Moldovans into loyal and trustworthy subjects and to integrate them into new state structures. This article explores the “liminal” character of Moldovan identities forged on the Russian and Romanian borderlands through the prism of Moldova's “home-grown” religious movements. Grass-roots mov…
She read me a prayer and I read it back to her’
This paper explores the polyvalent and gendered nature of the relationship between the practices of reading and charming and the Mother of God in the dream narratives of Gagauz women in the Republic of Moldova. The most widespread healing text used by this Orthodox Christian minority, The Dream of the Mother of God, is paradigmatic of this relationship being the principle ‘site’ where images of and beliefs about healing and dreaming meet with wom…
She Read Me a Prayer and I Read It Back to Her’
This paper explores the polyvalent and gendered nature of the relationship between the practices of reading and charming and the Mother of God in the dream narratives of Gagauz women in the Republic of Moldova. The most widespread healing text used by this Orthodox Christian minority, The Dream of the Mother of God , is paradigmatic of this relationship being the principle ‘site’ where images of and beliefs about healing and dreaming meet with wo…
Text, Context and Performance
Past scholarship on the Gagauz people has focused on their ethnic origins and the tension between their Christian faith and Turkish linguistic identity. This study, based on extensive fieldwork in the Republic of Moldova, approaches the problem of this central dichotomy in Gagauz identity through the lens of daily religious practices. This empirical approach reveals how scholarly discourses on 'folk religion' guide the local fieldworker's identif…
Religionising Fieldwork and Fieldworking Religion
The Appearance of Saints
I present here examples of the photographic presence of a religious minority community in the secret police archives in ex-communist Eastern Europe. The use of secret police archives by researchers to trace the history of repression and collaboration and to understand the methods employed by totalitarian regimes to control their populations is well established. The significance of these archives for the study of material religion, however, has be…
Text, Context and Performance
Past scholarship on the Gagauz people has focused on their ethnic origins and the tension between their Christian faith and Turkish linguistic identity. This study, based on extensive fieldwork in the Republic of Moldova, approaches the problem of this central dichotomy in Gagauz identity through the lens of daily religious practices. This empirical approach reveals how scholarly discourses on 'folk religion' guide the local fieldworker's identif…
Religionising Fieldwork and Fieldworking Religion
She read me a prayer and I read it back to her’
This paper explores the polyvalent and gendered nature of the relationship between the practices of reading and charming and the Mother of God in the dream narratives of Gagauz women in the Republic of Moldova. The most widespread healing text used by this Orthodox Christian minority, The Dream of the Mother of God, is paradigmatic of this relationship being the principle ‘site’ where images of and beliefs about healing and dreaming meet with wom…
She Read Me a Prayer and I Read It Back to Her’
This paper explores the polyvalent and gendered nature of the relationship between the practices of reading and charming and the Mother of God in the dream narratives of Gagauz women in the Republic of Moldova. The most widespread healing text used by this Orthodox Christian minority, The Dream of the Mother of God , is paradigmatic of this relationship being the principle ‘site’ where images of and beliefs about healing and dreaming meet with wo…
Liminal” Orthodoxies on the Margins of Empire
In the 20th century, the Russian Orthodox Church, the Romanian Orthodox Church, and the Soviet atheist state each pursued missions that attempted to transform Moldovans into loyal and trustworthy subjects and to integrate them into new state structures. This article explores the “liminal” character of Moldovan identities forged on the Russian and Romanian borderlands through the prism of Moldova's “home-grown” religious movements. Grass-roots mov…
Inochentism and Orthodox Christianity
This book explores the history and evolution of Inochentism, a controversial new religious movement that emerged in the Russian and Romanian borderlands of what is now Moldova and Ukraine in the context of the Russian revolutionary period. Inochentism centres around the charismatic preaching of Inochentie, a monk of the Orthodox Church, who inspired an apocalyptic movement that was soon labelled heretical by the Orthodox Church and persecuted as …
The Appearance of Saints
I present here examples of the photographic presence of a religious minority community in the secret police archives in ex-communist Eastern Europe. The use of secret police archives by researchers to trace the history of repression and collaboration and to understand the methods employed by totalitarian regimes to control their populations is well established. The significance of these archives for the study of material religion, however, has be…
Introduction. Visual Ethics after Communism
This special issue problematizes the often-uncritical use of images in publications and displays about communism. It poses a number of questions for anthropologists, historians, museologists and others: when does an image or a museum display present itself as problematic and for whom? Under what circumstances is it ethically justifiable to exhibit or publish such images or, conversely, to put images aside, leaving them undisplayed? When do argume…
La comida como resistencia religiosa
Este artículo destaca la importancia de la comida como medio para sostener y hacer crecer las comunidades religiosas clandestinas durante el comunismo y como forma de resistencia espiritual frente a un estado comunista. Basándose en un conjunto de informes elaborados por confidentes internos de una operación dirigida contra una red clandestina de disidentes ortodoxos, los denominados inochentistas-estilistas, en la Rumanía de los años 50 y 60, el…
Sources on the Political and Military Situation among Moldovans and Germans on the Left Bank of the Dniester, 1920–1921, from the Soviet-Era Archives in Ukraine
To Make a Village Soviet
Journal Article To Make a Village Soviet: Jehovah's Witnesses and the Transformation in a Postwar Ukrainian Borderland. By Emily B. Baran Get access To Make a Village Soviet: Jehovah's Witnesses and the Transformation in a Postwar Ukrainian Borderland. By Emily B. Baran. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022. 234pp. $37.95 CAD paper. James A Kapaló James A Kapaló University College Cork, Cork, Ireland E-mail: [email protected] Search for …
Between the Sociologist and the Secret Police
This article addresses the peculiar challenges and opportunities of researching lived religion in archives produced during the communist era. Inspired by the material turn in the study of religions, this article discusses the significance and uses of collections of the material traces of religion found in communist-era archives in Hungary. Using the private archive of Zsuzsa Horváth (1950–1995), a sociologist of religion who worked in 1970s and 1…
Philosophy (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)