Living in the End Times : Ritual, History, and Ethics in Romania's Old Belief Science Fiction and Fantasy Until one day

Until one day

`white root'

The trees are diseased

beneath the surface of Mitford's wit

Living in the End Times : Ritual, History, and Ethics in Romania's Old Belief Science Fiction and Fantasy Until one dayIn the Danube Delta, on the border between Romania and Ukraine, a shrinking community of Russian Old Believers Orthodox Christians who rejected seventeenth century religious reforms in Russia has struggled for survival, withdrawn from the world while simultaneously trying to engage with it. Waves of social change, from internal divisions and migrationto external secularization and modernization, have reinforced this community's commitment to the old