Issue 1 / 2015. Holy Places and Identity. Issue Editor: Albena Georgieva

Table of contents:

Albena Georgieva – From the Issue Editor.

Evgenia Troeva – The Capital of the Past: The Monastery of St. Athanasius (the Village of Zlatna Livada, Chirpan Region) between Myth and History.

Ivaylo Markov – Transformation of a Religious Site: The Rock­Cut Church of St. Petka in the Town of Tran between Religious Worship and Tourist Attraction.

Violeta Periklieva  Mechanisms for Transformation of the Local Religious Landscape in the Region of Petrich.

Bozhidar Aleksiev  Sarakaz near the Village of Botevo, Yambol Region: Inheriting a Cult.

Mina Hristova  Sacred Places and Cultural Memory on the Tripoint of Bulgaria, Serbia and Macedonia.

MATERIALS

 Albena Georgieva  Life on the Border: Between Saints and Poverty (Reflections on a Field Observation)

Valentina Sharlanova  Two Poorly Known Holy Places near Sofia (The Suhodol Chapel (Monastery) of the Holy Trinity and the Dolen Pasarel Monastery of Saints Peter and Paul) 

MUSEUMS

Mila Santova – The Birth of an Exhibition. “The Birth of the Third Bulgarian State. Sofia and the Region on the Border between the 19th and the 20th Century. Metropolians“. 

JUBILEE

Vladimir Penchev – Congratulations Professor! The Hero of the Anniversary, Jan Ry­chlík – Doctor Honoris Causa at the Sofia University. 

REVIEWS AND COMMENTS  

Anelia Kasabova – Ethnographical Problems of Traditional Culture. Vol. 10. Anchev, [Ed.]. Sofia: Prof. M. Drinov Academic Publishing House, 2013, pp. 487.

Ekaterina Anastasova – Aleksandar Anatolievich Prigarin. Russian Old Believers on the Danube River (Formation of Ethno­Confessional Community at the End of the 18th and the First Half of the 19th Century). 2010, Odessa – Izmail - Moscow: SMIL – Arheodiksiya, pp. 528. 

SCIENCE LIFE

Lina Gergova – Scientific Conference “Bulgarians Abroad, Foreigners in Bulgaria. Institutions, Organizations, Community Life“, September 29­10, 2014, IEFSEM­BAS, Sofia.

Yana Yancheva – 7th Congress and International Scientific Conference of InASEA “Cultures of Crisis“. 

Authors in the issue