Table of Contents

Introduction 1 Between Hagiography and History: The Life of Inochentie of Balta 2 "The Mad Doctrine of the Incarnation of the Holy Spirit" 3 "All wells will run dry": Belief and Practice amongst the Balta Pilgrims 4 Inochentism in Interwar Romania 5 Visions of the Underground: Archangelism in Interwar Romania 6 "John’s Flock": Ioan Zlotea and the Monastic Tradition 7 Return to the Garden of Paradise: Inochentism under Stalin and Antonescu 8 Golgotha: The Inochentist Underground in Soviet Moldavia 9 Epilogue

About the Author

James A. Kapaló is Senior Lecturer in the Study of Religions at University College Cork, Ireland and co-Director of the Marginalised and Endangered Worldviews Study Centre. He is author of Text, Context and Performance: Gagauz Folk Religion in Discourse and Practice (2011).