Creative Agency and Religious Minorities: ‘hidden galleries’ in the secret police archives in 20th Century Central and Eastern Europe

Project Information

Hidden Galleries

Grant agreement ID: 677355

DOI

10.3030/677355

Project closed

EC signature date 18 February 2016

Start date 1 September 2016

End date 31 March 2021

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 990 087,00

EU contribution

€ 990 087,00

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UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK - NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK
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Publications

Book chapters (10)

Secret police informer files as sources for the study of vernacular religion under communism

Author(s): Ágnes Hesz
Published in: The Secret Police and the Religious Underground in Communist and Post-communist Eastern Europe, 2021, Page(s) 213-233, ISBN 9780367279998
Publisher: Routledge

The Stolen Stamp

Author(s): Ágnes Hesz
Published in: Hidden Galleries: Material Religion in the Secret Police Archives in Central and Eastern Europe, 2020, Page(s) 100, ISBN 9783643912633
Publisher: Lit Verlag

Exhibitions as tools to think with: On impact and process

Author(s): Gabriela Nicolescu
Published in: Hidden Galleries: Material Religion in the Secret Police Archives in Central and Eastern Europe, 2020, Page(s) 102-104, ISBN 9783643912633
Publisher: Lit Verlag
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5032353

Feasting and fasting: The evidential character of material religion in secret police archives

Author(s): James A. Kapaló
Published in: The Secret Police and the Religious Underground in Communist and Post-communist Eastern Europe, 2021, Page(s) 254-272, ISBN 9780367279998
Publisher: Routledge

Women and Orthodox dissent: The case of the Archangelistunderground movement in Soviet Moldavia

Author(s): James A. Kapaló
Published in: Women and Religiosity in Orthodox Christianity, 2021
Publisher: Fordham University Press

Introduction: Reframing the Religious Underground

Author(s): James A. Kapaló and Kinga Povedák
Published in: The Secret Police and the Religious Underground in Communist and Post-communist Eastern Europe, 2021, Page(s) 1-36, ISBN 9780367279998
Publisher: Routledge

Visual Media and the Reconfiguration of Divinity in Moldovan Radical Religion

Author(s): James A. Kapaló
Published in: Contesting Authorities: Vernacular Challenges, Strategies and Counterpower, 2021, ISBN 9781781792377
Publisher: Equinox Publishing

Photographs of the religious underground: Tracing images between archives and communities

Author(s): Kinga Povedák
Published in: The Secret Police and the Religious Underground in Communist and Post-communist Eastern Europe, 2021, Page(s) 234-253, ISBN 9780367279998
Publisher: Routledge

Echoes of Cucova

Author(s): Iuliana Cindrea
Published in: Hidden Galleries: Material Religion in the Secret Police Archives in Central and Eastern Europe, 2020, Page(s) 96, ISBN 9783643912633
Publisher: Lit Verlag

Bishop Evloghie and his Prayer Beads

Author(s): Anca Șincan
Published in: Hidden Galleries: Material Religion in the Secret Police Archives in Central and Eastern Europe, 2020, Page(s) 98-99, ISBN 9783643912633
Publisher: Lit Verlag

Monographic books (2)

The Secret Police and the Religious Underground in Communist and Post-Communist Eastern Europe

Author(s): James Kapaló and Kinga Povedák
Published in: 2021, ISBN 9780429331466
Publisher: Routldege
DOI: 10.4324/9780429331466

Introduction: Archives and Communities

Author(s): James A Kapaló and Tatiana Vagramenko
Published in: Hidden Galleries: Material Religion in the Secret Police Archives in Central and Eastern Europe, 2020, Page(s) 8-11, ISBN 9783643912633
Publisher: Lit Verlag
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5031854

Peer reviewed articles (11)

'Légy szíves ezt a levelet elégetni, ha elolvastátok”: vernakuláris vallás a titkosrendőrségi aktákban [“Please burn after reading”: vernacular religion in secret police archives]',

Author(s): Hesz, Ágnes
Published in: Ethnografia, Issue 132 (1), 2021, Page(s) 45-66, ISSN 0014-1798
Publisher: Magyar Neprajzi Tarsasag
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5012326

The Hand at Work or How the KGB File Leaks in the Exhibition

Author(s): Gabriela Nicolescu, Tatiana Vagramenko
Published in: Martor: The Museum of the Romanian Peasant Anthropology Review, Issue 26 (2021), 2021, ISSN 1224-6271
Publisher: National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Bucharest

Femeile Stiliste în documentele de archivă’ [Stilist women in archival documents]

Author(s): Iuliana Cindrea
Published in: Magazin Istoric, Issue January 2019, no. 1, 2019, Page(s) 66-70, ISSN 0541-881X
Publisher: Fundaţia Culturală Magazin Istoric (F.C.M.I.)
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5031821

Methodological notes on visual ethics: ‘Choosing not to reveal’

Author(s): Kinga Povedák
Published in: Martor: The Museum of the Romanian Peasant Anthropology Review, Issue 26, 2021, ISSN 2734-8350
Publisher: National Museum of the Romanian Peasant

Performing clandestinity: The religious underground, the secret police and the media in communist Eastern Europe

Author(s): James A. Kapalo
Published in: Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religions, Issue vol. 22 (2020), 2020, Page(s) 16-43, ISSN 2516-6379
Publisher: British Association for the Study of Religion
DOI: 10.18792/jbasr.v22i0.45

În clandestinitate: minorități religioase nerecunoscute de lege în arhivele Securități [Clandestinity: Legally unrecognised religious minorities in the archives of the Securitate]

Author(s): Anca Șincan
Published in: Anuarul Institutului de Cercetări Socio-Umane “Gheorghe Șincai” [Yearbook of the Research Institute for the Social Science and Humanities Research Institute “Gheorghe Șincai”], Issue vol 22, 2019, Page(s) 218-31, ISSN 1454-5284
Publisher: Romanian Academy
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5032331

“… as the young girl told them so”

Author(s): Iuliana Cindrea-Nagy
Published in: Religion and Gender, Issue vol.1 (2021), 2021, Page(s) 1-24, ISSN 2589-8051
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/18785417-bja10001

The Appearance of Saints: Photographic Evidence and Religious Minorities in the Secret Police Archives in Eastern Europe

Author(s): james a. kapaló
Published in: Material Religion, Issue 15/1, 2019, Page(s) 82-109, ISSN 1743-2200
Publisher: Berg
DOI: 10.1080/17432200.2019.1570445

KGB Photography Experimentation: Turning Religion into Organized Crime

Author(s): Tatiana Vagramenko
Published in: Kritika, 2021, ISSN 0277-786X
Publisher: Slavica

“Liminal” Orthodoxies on the Margins of Empire: Twentieth-Century “Home-Grown” Religious Movements in the Republic of Moldova

Author(s): James Kapaló
Published in: Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Issue 23/1, 2017, Page(s) 33-51, ISSN 1353-7113
Publisher: Frank Cass Publishers
DOI: 10.1080/13537113.2017.1273673

Образы насилия над верующими в музейной экспозиции: История одного дела из архива КГБ [Images of violence against believers in a museum exhibition: The history of one case from the KGB archive]

Author(s): Tatiana Vagramenko and Gabriela Nicolescu
Published in: Researches in Religious Studies, Issue Vol. 23, no. 1, 2021, ISSN 2224-6711
Publisher: Researchers in Religious Studies

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Imagini din galerii secrete [Images from Hidden Galleries]

Author(s): Gabriela Nicolescu, Tatiana Vagramenko, Kinga Povedák, Dumitru Lisnic
Published in: Revista Tribuna, Issue No 416, 1-15 January, 2020, Page(s) 17-19, ISSN 1223-8546
Publisher: Revista Tribuna, Ministerul Culturii