New Antiquities - Transformations of Ancient Religion in the New Age and Beyond - Dylan Michael Burns
(Neo-)Bogomil Legends: The Gnosticizing Bogomils of the Twentieth-Century Balkans
New Antiquities - Transformations of Ancient Religion in the New Age and Beyond - Dylan Michael Burns
Dylan Michael Burns [+]
Freie Universität Berlin
Dylan M. Burns is a research associate at the Egyptological Seminar, Freie Universität Berlin. Co-chair of the Nag Hammadi and Gnosticism program unit at the Society of Biblical Literature, he is the author of Apocalypse of the Alien God: Platonism and the Exile of Sethian Gnosticism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014), and collaborative editor of Gnosticism, Platonism, and the Late Ancient World: Essays in Honour of John D. Turner (Brill, 2013). Since 2013, he has served as project manager for the digital lexicography project Database and Dictionary of Greek Loanwords in Coptic.
Nemanja Radulovic [+]
University of Belgrade
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Nemanja Radulović is associate professor of folk literature at Faculty of Philology (University of Belgrade, Department of Serbian and South Slavic Literatures). In addition to folklore, he researches the influence of esotericism on Serbian literature and culture.
Description
This contribution examines two modern, ‘Neo-Bogomil’ groups: the Universal White Brotherhood (Bulgaria), and the Balkan Bogomil Center (Croatia). Both of these groups claim not only the authority of Bogomilism but ancient ‘Gnosticism,’ articulating these dualist heresies in terms of Theosophy as well as South-Eastern European religious and ethnic-national identities formulated in the later nineteenth century.