Living in the End Times : Ritual, History, and Ethics in Romania's Old Belief Science Fiction and Fantasy In Our Mathematical Universe

In Our Mathematical Universe

Chris Shiherlis (Val Kilmer)

The trees are diseased

they know their lives are at stake

Jules Verne's most famous adventure

Living in the End Times : Ritual, History, and Ethics in Romania's Old Belief Science Fiction and Fantasy In Our Mathematical UniverseIn 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Believers Orthodox Christians who rejected seventeenth century religious reforms in Russia has struggled for survival, withdrawn from the world while simultaneously trying to engage with it.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