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CFP Community, art, religion, and feasts

2025-06-22

Reminder:

Community, art, religion, and feasts: Important: Deadline for proposals: April 1, 2025; Deadline for the submission of completed articles: August 1, 2025.

The arts, religion and feasts and their communal expression have repeatedly come up in previous discussions and analyses, offering diverse interpretation possibilities. We invite you to provide an examination of art, religion, and feasts.

Current Issue

Vol. 8 No. 2 (2025): Volume 8.2: The Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies

The second issue of Volume 8 of the Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies presents current research results from Bulgaria, Poland, Estonia, Türkiye, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan. The contributions explore youth folkloore, crime narratives and horror stories (E. Kalmre); everyday rituals and practices; festivals and funeral customs (V. Özkan, P. Vasileva-Grueva, M. Markova); child mortality in GULAG camps
(Z. Saktaganova, A. Gladysheva, A. Ventsel); horticultural cooperatives, cultivation in the windowsills, balkonies, rooftop gardens (M. Kuperjanov, A. Kuperjanov, M. Kõiva); mental cartographies at the intersection of local tradition, mythology, and science (R. Hiiemäe, M. Kalda, K. Villem); saints and pilgrimage (T. Kalniuk); socialist ritual music (I. Sikorska, O. Letychevska, I. Lisniak), and grunge
(A. Ventsel).

The editors for this issue are Mare Kõiva and Mila Maeva.

Published: 2025-12-15

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Introduction

Mila Maeva, Mare Kõiva

7-12
- Full text
- https://doi.org/10.7592/YBBS8.2.00
Highland Festivals in Türkiye’s Eastern Black Sea Region: A Cultural Sociological Analysis

Vildane Özkan

13-41
- Full text
- https://doi.org/10.7592/YBBS8.2.01
The Laughter in and around Treasure Tales

Mare Kalda

42-65
- Full text
- https://doi.org/10.7592/YBBS8.2.02
Ostension and Criminal Legends: Contemporary Horror Tales as Part of Online Youth Lore

Eda Kalmre

66-85
- Full text
- https://doi.org/10.7592/YBBS8.2.03
The History of a Little-Known Monument by Estonian Sculptor Amandus Adamson

Vladimir Vaingort

86-99
- Full text
- https://doi.org/10.7592/YBBS8.2.04
Horticultural Cooperatives in Estonia and Lifestyle Change: The Case of Ihaste

Maris Kuperjanov, Andres Kuperjanov

100-117
- Full text
- https://doi.org/10.7592/YBBS8.2.05
Holy Apparition. The birth and development of St Andrew Bobola’s cult in Strachocina

Tomasz Kalniuk

118-134
- Full text
- https://doi.org/10.7592/YBBS8.2.06
Bridging Mythology and Science: Lessons from a Mental Mapping Workshop on the Perception of Environmental Health Crises

Reet Hiiemäe, Mare Kalda

135-157
- Full text
- https://doi.org/10.7592/YBBS8.2.07
The Establishment of New Rituality in Ukrainian Amateur and Professional Music under Soviet Totalitarian Rule

Iryna Sikorska, Oksana Letychevska, Inna Lisniak

158-191
- Full text
- https://doi.org/10.7592/YBBS8.2.08
Child Mortality and Disease in Karlag, 1941: A Comparison of Prisoners’ and Free Workers’ Children

Zauresh Saktaganova, Alina Gladysheva, Aimar Ventsel

192-217
- Full text
- https://doi.org/10.7592/YBBS8.2.09
Spiritual Territoriality: Boundary Setting and Place-Claiming in Burial Site Folk Stories — A Qualitative Study

Kristo Villem

218-236
- Full text
- https://doi.org/10.7592/YBBS8.2.10
Feast and Community in the Village of Ribnovo, Southwestern Bulgaria, between Tradition and Modernity

Petya Vasileva-Grueva

237-259
- Full text
- https://doi.org/10.7592/YBBS8.2.11
Meat in the Diet of the Dead (According to Material from the Traditional Period of the Bulgarians)

Maria Markova

260-288
- Full text
- https://doi.org/10.7592/YBBS8.2.12
Why There Was No Grunge Breakthrough in Estonia

Aimar Ventsel

289-300
- Full text
- https://doi.org/10.7592/YBBS8.2.13
From Windowsills to Rooftops: The Cultural History and Modern Uses of Domestic Plant Cultivation in Estonia

Mare Kõiva

301-320
- Full text
- https://doi.org/10.7592/YBBS8.2.14

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The Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies (YBBS) is a peer-reviewed annual English language journal for the study of humanities (incl. ethnology, folklore, religiosity, and migration studies), global relations and influences of the past events and modern developments in the area. YBBS welcomes contributions in the fields of critical and comparative analyses of cultural history.

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