Re-thinking the concept of re-enchantment in Central-Eastern Europe

Abstrakt

This article discusses four different concepts: disenchantment, secularisation, post-secularism, and re-enchantment, analysing their theoretical entanglements and problematising their applicability to recent and contemporary social realities in formerly socialist Europe. It also offers a conceptual tuning of re-enchantment in particular, basing it on both empirical evidence as well as on readings from the now rather rich scholarly literature that operationalises this concept.

A typology is also presented that illustrates a variety of re-enchanted social phenomena that populate the religious and spiritual horizons of late modern central-eastern Europe.

Klíčová slova

• re-enchantment
• disenchantment
• post-socialism
• secularisation
• post-secularism
• central-eastern Europe