Przestrzenie przechowywania. Genealogia postsekularnego imaginarium i wrażliwości religijnej w obszarze poradzieckim
Spaces of Containment: Genealogy of Postsecular Imaginary and Religious Sensibility in the Post-Soviet Region

Summary/Abstract: The article explores postsecular imaginary and religious sensibility in the (post-)Sovietcontext. The author draws on 166 in-depth interviews conducted with scholars fromLithuania and Ukraine. In these interviews, the imaginary appears as a specific “spaceof containment” that preserves images of divinity, characterized by a high degree ofsimilarity and convergence (“tuning-in”). Respondents’ internal disposition towarda particular form, here termed “sensibility,” serves as the driving force behind the imaginary.The author reconstructs the genealogy of the identified imaginary in the atheisticSoviet state, which shaped a sensibility open to science yet simultaneously mysticallyinclined. This case provides an opportunity to reflect on whether proto-religious, fluidsocial solidarity can persist in (post-)secular societies and whether the imaginary andsensibility can serve as spaces for its preservation. In this context, the author offersseveral methodological reflections.

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