Vlad Naumescu
Associate Professor
Sociology and Social Anthropology
Central European University
Hungary
Biography
Vlad Naumescu an anthropologist of religion broadly interested in questions of learning and cultural transmission. He has done extensive fieldwork on religious transformation in postsocialist Western Ukraine (2003-2006), with Russian Old Believers in Romania (2007-2012), and Syrian Christians in Kerala, South India (since 2013). This has led to explore various related topics including politics of memory, technologies of the imagination, time and temporality, doubt in ritual, ethics and morality, religious-secular formations in state socialism and after. My most recent research brings many of these topics together into a comparative analysis of pedagogies of prayer in Eastern Christianity.
Research Interest
Social Anthropology
Publications
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Naumescu V. Learning the ‘Science of Feelings’: Religious Training in Eastern Christian Monasticism. Ethnos. 2012;77(2):227-51.
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Naumescu V. Learning the ‘Science of Feelings’: Religious Training in Eastern Christian Monasticism. Ethnos. 2012;77(2):227-51.
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Naumescu V. Old Believers’ Passion Play: The Meaning of Doubt in an Orthodox Ritualist Movement. In: Pelkmans M, editor. Ethnographies of Doubt. London: I.B.Tauris; 2013. p. 85-117.
