Memory and Religion from a Postsecular Perspective

1. Introduction: Memory and Religion from a Postsecular Perspective Part 1: Memory and Religion: Theoretical Considerations 2. Religion and Collective Memory of the Last Century: General Reflections and Russian Vicissitudes 3. Sacred Religio-Secular Symbols, National Myths and Collective Memory Part 2: Postsecularity and Politics of Memory 4. The Armenian Genocide: Extermination, Memory, Sacralization 5. Building a Patrimonial Church: How the Orthodox Churches in Ukraine Use the Past 6. ‘God is in Truth, Not in Power!’: The Re-militarization of the Cult of St Alexander Nevsky in Contemporary Russian Cultural Memory 7. The Martyrdom of Jozef Tiso: The Entanglements of the Sacred and Secular in Post-War Catholic Memories 8. Remembering and Enforced Forgetting: The Dynamics of Remembering Cardinal József Mindszenty in the Cold War Decades Part 3: Post-Conflict Memories 9. Evocation and the June Fourth Tiananmen Candlelight Vigil: A Ritual-Theological Hermeneutics 10. Religious Echoes of the Donbas Conflict: The Discourses of the Christian, Muslim and Jewish Communities in Ukraine 11. Official Quests, Vernacular Answers: The Macedonian Orthodox Church – Ohrid Archbishopric (MOC-OA) as a Memory Actor in the Post-Conflict Republic of North Macedonia (2001–19) 12. Negotiating the Sacred at Non-Sites of Memory. The Religious Imaginary of Post-Genocidal Society Part 4: Media and Postsecular Memory 13. The Crimean Tatars’ Memory of Deportation and Islam 14. The Soviet Past in Contemporary Orthodox Hymnography and Iconography 15. Whose Church is It? The Nonreligious Use of Religious Architecture in Eastern Germany Part 5: Transnational and Vernacular Memories 16. The Political Use of the Cult of St Tryphon of Pechenga and Its Potential as a Bridge-Builder in the Arctic 17. ‘Vernacular’ and ‘Official’ Memories: Looking Beyond the Annual Hasidic Pilgrimages to Uman 18. Memory as a Religious Mission? Religion and Nation in Local Commemoration Practices in Contemporary Poland 19. Critical Juxtaposition in the Postwar Japanese Mnemoscape: Saint Maksymilian Kolbe of Auschwitz and the Atomic Bomb Victims of Nagasaki Afterword. From ‘Religion as a Chain of Memory’ to Memory from a Postsecular Perspective