Sacred Geographies and Identity Claims: The Revival of Sacred Sites in the Post-Soviet Space

摘要

One signifcant form of the religious revival inthe post-Soviet space is the revival of sacredsites, a revival that takes many forms. The(re)emergence of a sacred geography can belinked to identity claims, as laying claims toa sacred space often corresponds to the process of laying claims to a particular identity(Vovina 2006).