New researches on the religion and mythology of the Pagan Slavs – 2

by Patrice Lajoye (editor), Patrice Lajoye (Editor), Stamatis Zochios (Editor)

Following a first volume published in 2019, here are nine new studies on the religion and mythology of the pagan Slavs. Some are interested in validating the reliability of ancient sources, while others offer more focused case studies, including studying particular deities. With the contributions of Tsimafei Avilin, Elena Boganeva, Nikola Danisová, Alexander V. Ivanenko, Kamil Kajkowski, Aleksandr Koptev, Oleg V. Kutarev, Patrice Lajoye, Giuseppe Maiello, Tatiana Oliferchik, Marina V. Valentsova and Stamatis Zochios.

292 pages, Paperback

Published August 4, 2023

About the author

Patrice Lajoye is a PhD in History of Comparative Religions (University of Charleroi, Belgium) and the author of several works about Celtic and Slavic mythologies, such as L’Arbre du Monde, la Cosmologie Celte (2017), Perun, Dieu Slave de l’Orage (2015), Fils de l’Orage : un modèle eurasiatique de héros ? (2017), and Mythologie et Religion des Slaves Païens (2022).
He is working for the CNRS (the French National Centre for Scientific Research) where he is the editorial secretary of the journal Histoire et Sociétés Rurales.
With his wife, Viktoria Lajoye, they have written studies about Russian fantasy and science-fiction literature, as well as translations, anthologies, and novels.