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