Modern Latvian Paganism: Some Introductory Remarks
Issued Date: 18 Jul 2013
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An introductory overview to a special section of The Pomegranate featuring three articles concerning Latvian Paganism.
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Biezais, Haralds. “Baltic Religion.” In Encyclopedia of Religion, edited by Mircea Eliade, Vol. 2, 49–55. New York: Macmillan, 1987.
Biezais, Haralds, and Sigma Ankrava. “Baltic Religion: An Overview.” In Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd edition, edited by Lindsay Jones, 2: 756–62. Detroit: Macmillan Reference, 2004.
Christiansen, Eric. The Northern Crusades. London: Penguin Books, 1997.
Čiubrinskas, Vytis. “Identity and the Revival of Tradition in Lithuania: An Insider’s View.” FOLK: Journal of the Danish Ethnographic Society 42 (2000): 19-40.
Dārdedzis, Jānis. Lavian Religion: An Outline. New York: Nukorkas Dievturu Kopa, 1967.
Dundzila, Vilius Rudra. “Baltic Lithuanian Religion and Romuva.” Tyr: Myth-Culture-Tradition 3 (2007–08): 279–360.
Gimbutas [Gimbutienė], Marija. The Balts. London: Thames and Hudson, 1963.
Gimbutas [Gimbutienė], Marija.. “The Baltic Religion.” In Gimbutas, The Living Goddesses, edited and supplemented by Miriam Robbins Dexter, 197–214. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.
Krūmiņa-Koņkova, Solveiga. “New Religions in Latvia.” Nova Religio: The Journal of Emergent and Alternative Religions 3, no. 1 (1999): 119–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/nr.1999.3.1.119
Lieven, Anatol. The Baltic Revolution: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independence. New Haven: Yale University Press,1994.
Misāne, Agita. “The Traditional Latvian Religion of Dievturība in the Discourse of Latvian Nationalism.” Religious Minorities in Latvia 4, no. 2 (2000): 32–52.
Misāne, Agita. “Inter-War Right Wing Movements in the Baltic States and their Religious Affiliations.” Acta Ethnographica Hungarica 46, no. 1 (2001): 75–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/AEthn.46.2001.1-2.9
Misiunas, Romuald J., and Rein Taagepera. The Baltic States: Years of Dependence, 1940-1980. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983.
Muktupāvels, Valdis. “Latvia.” In The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Vol. 8: Europe, edited by Timothy Rice, James Porter, and Chris Goertzen, 499–508. New York: Garland, 2000.
Muktupāvels, Valdis.“Baltic Religion: New Religious Movements.” In Encyclopedia of Religion, Second Edition, Volume 2, edited by Lindsay Jones, 762–67. Detroit: Macmillan Reference, 2005.
Plakans, Andrejs. The Latvians: A Short History. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1995.
Puhvel, Jaan. “Baltic and Slavic Myth.” In Puhvel, Comparative Mythology, 222–40. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.
Puhvel, Jaan. “Indo-European Structure of the Baltic Pantheon.” In Myth in Indo-European Antiquity, edited by Gerald Larson, 75-85. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974.
Pūtelis, Aldis. “Folklore and Identity: The Situation of Latvia.” Folklore: An Electronical Journal of Folklore 4 (1997). http://www.hajdas.folklore.ee/folklore/vol4/index.html.
Straisys, Vytautas, and Libertas Klimka. “The Cosmology of the Ancient Balts.” Archaeo-Astronomy 22, supplement to Journal for the History of Astronomy 28 (1997): S57-S81.
Strmiska, Michael.“The Music of the Past in Modern Baltic Paganism.” Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 8, no.3 (2005): 39-58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/nr.2005.8.3.39
Strmiska, Michael.“Romuva Looks East: Indian Inspiration in Lithuanian Paganism.” In Religious Diversity in Post-Soviet Society: Ethnographies of Catholic Hegemony and the New Pluralism in Lithuania, edited by Milda Ališauskienė and Ingo W. Schröder, 125–50. Farhnham: Ashgate, 2012.
Strmiska, Michael.“Paganism-Inspired Folk Music, Folk Music-Inspired Paganism, and New Cultural Fusions in Lithuania and Latvia.” In Brill Handbook of New Religions and Cultural Productions, edited by Carole M. Cusack and Alex Norman, 349–98. Leiden: Brill, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004226487_016
Strmiska, Michael, and Vilius Rudra Dundzila. “Romuva: Lithuanian Paganism in Lithuania and America.”In Modern Paganism in World Cultures: Comparative Perspectives, edited by Michael Strmiska, 241–87. Boulder ABC-Clio 2005.
Trinkūnas, Jonas, ed. Of Gods and Holidays: The Baltic Heritage. Vilnius: Tverme, 1999.
Trinkūnas, Jonas, ed. “Revival of the ancient Baltic religions.” In Syncretism: An Indo-Romuva Strategy of Integration: A Collection of Papers Presented at the Indo-Romuva Cultures Conference in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA, edited by Jonas Trinkūnas, InijaTrinkūnienė, Shekhar Patel, Yashwant, Pathak, and Abhimanyu Gupta, 4–8. Bensalem: International Center for Cultural Studies, 2005.
Trinkūnienė, Inija. “Lithuanian Folklore as a Source of Baltic Religion: The Fire Ritual.” In Syncretism: An Indo-Romuva Strategy of Integration: A Collection of Papers Presented at the Indo-Romuva Cultures Conference in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA, edited by Jonas Trinkūnas, InijaTrinkūnienė, Shekhar Patel, Yashwant, Pathak, and Abhimanyu Gupta, 9–18. Bensalem: International Center for Cultural Studies, 2005.
Tupešu [Tupesis], Jānis. “The Ancient Latvian Religion: Dievtur ība.” Lituanus: Lithuanian Quarterly Journal of Arts and Sciences 33, no. 3 (1987): 46–61.
Vīķis-Freibergs, Vaira [Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga]. “Echoes of the Dainas and the Search for Identity in Contemporary Latvian Poetry.” Journal of Baltic Studies 6, no. 1 (1975): 17–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01629777500000421
Vīķis-Freibergs, Vaira [Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga] and Freibergs, Imants F. “The Sun-Songs of Latvia: A Computer-Accessible Corpus.” Journal of Baltic Studies 9, no. 1 (1978): 20–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01629777800000031
Vīķis-Freibergs, Vaira [Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga] and Freibergs, Imants F. Saules Dainas/Latvian Sun-Songs. Montreal: Helios,1988.
Vīķis-Freibergs, Vaira ed. [Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga]. “The Major Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Latvian Mythology.” In Linguistics and Poetics of Latvian Folk Songs, edited by Vaira Vīķis-Freibergs, 91–112. Montreal: McGill-Queensland, 1989.
Vīķe-Freiberga, Vaira. “Saule.” In Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd ed., edited by Lindsay Jones, 12: 8131-35. Detroit,: Macmillan Reference, 2005.
von Rauch, Georg. The Baltic States: The Years of Independence, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, 1917-1940, translated by Gerald Önn. Berkeley: University of California, 1974.
York, Michael. “Pan-Baltic Identity and Religio-Cultural Expression in Contemporary Lithuania.” In New Religions and the New Europe, edited by Robert Towler, 72–85. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 1995.
Biezais, Haralds, and Sigma Ankrava. “Baltic Religion: An Overview.” In Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd edition, edited by Lindsay Jones, 2: 756–62. Detroit: Macmillan Reference, 2004.
Christiansen, Eric. The Northern Crusades. London: Penguin Books, 1997.
Čiubrinskas, Vytis. “Identity and the Revival of Tradition in Lithuania: An Insider’s View.” FOLK: Journal of the Danish Ethnographic Society 42 (2000): 19-40.
Dārdedzis, Jānis. Lavian Religion: An Outline. New York: Nukorkas Dievturu Kopa, 1967.
Dundzila, Vilius Rudra. “Baltic Lithuanian Religion and Romuva.” Tyr: Myth-Culture-Tradition 3 (2007–08): 279–360.
Gimbutas [Gimbutienė], Marija. The Balts. London: Thames and Hudson, 1963.
Gimbutas [Gimbutienė], Marija.. “The Baltic Religion.” In Gimbutas, The Living Goddesses, edited and supplemented by Miriam Robbins Dexter, 197–214. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.
Krūmiņa-Koņkova, Solveiga. “New Religions in Latvia.” Nova Religio: The Journal of Emergent and Alternative Religions 3, no. 1 (1999): 119–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/nr.1999.3.1.119
Lieven, Anatol. The Baltic Revolution: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independence. New Haven: Yale University Press,1994.
Misāne, Agita. “The Traditional Latvian Religion of Dievturība in the Discourse of Latvian Nationalism.” Religious Minorities in Latvia 4, no. 2 (2000): 32–52.
Misāne, Agita. “Inter-War Right Wing Movements in the Baltic States and their Religious Affiliations.” Acta Ethnographica Hungarica 46, no. 1 (2001): 75–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/AEthn.46.2001.1-2.9
Misiunas, Romuald J., and Rein Taagepera. The Baltic States: Years of Dependence, 1940-1980. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983.
Muktupāvels, Valdis. “Latvia.” In The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Vol. 8: Europe, edited by Timothy Rice, James Porter, and Chris Goertzen, 499–508. New York: Garland, 2000.
Muktupāvels, Valdis.“Baltic Religion: New Religious Movements.” In Encyclopedia of Religion, Second Edition, Volume 2, edited by Lindsay Jones, 762–67. Detroit: Macmillan Reference, 2005.
Plakans, Andrejs. The Latvians: A Short History. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1995.
Puhvel, Jaan. “Baltic and Slavic Myth.” In Puhvel, Comparative Mythology, 222–40. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.
Puhvel, Jaan. “Indo-European Structure of the Baltic Pantheon.” In Myth in Indo-European Antiquity, edited by Gerald Larson, 75-85. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974.
Pūtelis, Aldis. “Folklore and Identity: The Situation of Latvia.” Folklore: An Electronical Journal of Folklore 4 (1997). http://www.hajdas.folklore.ee/folklore/vol4/index.html.
Straisys, Vytautas, and Libertas Klimka. “The Cosmology of the Ancient Balts.” Archaeo-Astronomy 22, supplement to Journal for the History of Astronomy 28 (1997): S57-S81.
Strmiska, Michael.“The Music of the Past in Modern Baltic Paganism.” Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 8, no.3 (2005): 39-58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/nr.2005.8.3.39
Strmiska, Michael.“Romuva Looks East: Indian Inspiration in Lithuanian Paganism.” In Religious Diversity in Post-Soviet Society: Ethnographies of Catholic Hegemony and the New Pluralism in Lithuania, edited by Milda Ališauskienė and Ingo W. Schröder, 125–50. Farhnham: Ashgate, 2012.
Strmiska, Michael.“Paganism-Inspired Folk Music, Folk Music-Inspired Paganism, and New Cultural Fusions in Lithuania and Latvia.” In Brill Handbook of New Religions and Cultural Productions, edited by Carole M. Cusack and Alex Norman, 349–98. Leiden: Brill, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004226487_016
Strmiska, Michael, and Vilius Rudra Dundzila. “Romuva: Lithuanian Paganism in Lithuania and America.”In Modern Paganism in World Cultures: Comparative Perspectives, edited by Michael Strmiska, 241–87. Boulder ABC-Clio 2005.
Trinkūnas, Jonas, ed. Of Gods and Holidays: The Baltic Heritage. Vilnius: Tverme, 1999.
Trinkūnas, Jonas, ed. “Revival of the ancient Baltic religions.” In Syncretism: An Indo-Romuva Strategy of Integration: A Collection of Papers Presented at the Indo-Romuva Cultures Conference in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA, edited by Jonas Trinkūnas, InijaTrinkūnienė, Shekhar Patel, Yashwant, Pathak, and Abhimanyu Gupta, 4–8. Bensalem: International Center for Cultural Studies, 2005.
Trinkūnienė, Inija. “Lithuanian Folklore as a Source of Baltic Religion: The Fire Ritual.” In Syncretism: An Indo-Romuva Strategy of Integration: A Collection of Papers Presented at the Indo-Romuva Cultures Conference in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA, edited by Jonas Trinkūnas, InijaTrinkūnienė, Shekhar Patel, Yashwant, Pathak, and Abhimanyu Gupta, 9–18. Bensalem: International Center for Cultural Studies, 2005.
Tupešu [Tupesis], Jānis. “The Ancient Latvian Religion: Dievtur ība.” Lituanus: Lithuanian Quarterly Journal of Arts and Sciences 33, no. 3 (1987): 46–61.
Vīķis-Freibergs, Vaira [Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga]. “Echoes of the Dainas and the Search for Identity in Contemporary Latvian Poetry.” Journal of Baltic Studies 6, no. 1 (1975): 17–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01629777500000421
Vīķis-Freibergs, Vaira [Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga] and Freibergs, Imants F. “The Sun-Songs of Latvia: A Computer-Accessible Corpus.” Journal of Baltic Studies 9, no. 1 (1978): 20–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01629777800000031
Vīķis-Freibergs, Vaira [Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga] and Freibergs, Imants F. Saules Dainas/Latvian Sun-Songs. Montreal: Helios,1988.
Vīķis-Freibergs, Vaira ed. [Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga]. “The Major Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Latvian Mythology.” In Linguistics and Poetics of Latvian Folk Songs, edited by Vaira Vīķis-Freibergs, 91–112. Montreal: McGill-Queensland, 1989.
Vīķe-Freiberga, Vaira. “Saule.” In Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd ed., edited by Lindsay Jones, 12: 8131-35. Detroit,: Macmillan Reference, 2005.
von Rauch, Georg. The Baltic States: The Years of Independence, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, 1917-1940, translated by Gerald Önn. Berkeley: University of California, 1974.
York, Michael. “Pan-Baltic Identity and Religio-Cultural Expression in Contemporary Lithuania.” In New Religions and the New Europe, edited by Robert Towler, 72–85. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 1995.
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