Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-350) and index.
A postcolonial key to understanding Central and Eastern Europena neopaganisms / Piotr Wiench -- Selected words for modern pagan and native faith movements in Central and Eastern Europe / Scott Simpson and Mariusz Filip -- Romanticism and the rise of neopaganism in nineteenth-century Central and Eastern Europe : the Polish case / Agnieszka Gajda -- Russian neopaganism : from ethnic religion to racial violence / Victor A. Shnirelman -- Contemporary paganism in Lithuanian context : principal beliefs and practices of Romuva / Rasa Pranskevičiūtė -- The Dievturi movement in Latvia as invention of tradition / Gatis Ozolin̦š -- Polish Rodzimowierstwo : strategies for (re)constructing a movement / Scott Simpson -- Ukrainian paganism and syncretism : "This is indeed ours!" / Mariya Lesiv -- Russian Rodnoverie : six portraits of a movement / Kaarina Aitamurto and Alexey Gaidukov -- Czech neopagan movements and leaders / Anna-Marie Dostálová -- Neopaganism in Slovenia / Aleš Črnič -- Bulgarian society and the diversity of pagan and neopagan themes / Vladimir Dulov -- Romanian ethno-paganism : discourses of nationalistic religion in virtual space / László-Attila Hubbes -- Neopaganism in Hungary : under the spell of roots / Réka Szilárdi -- Neopaganism in the Mari El Republic / Boris Knorre -- A neopagan movement in Armenia : the Children of Ara / Yulia Antonyan and Konrad Siekierski -- The ideology of Jan Stachniuk and the power of creation / Maciej Strutyński -- "Imported" paganisms in Poland in the twenty-first century : a sketch of the developing landscape / Maciej Witulski -- The Russian-language Internet and Rodnoverie / Alexey Gaidukov