Inochentism and Orthodox Christianity. Religious dissent in the Russian and Romanian borderlands. By James A. Kapaló. (New Religions.) Pp. xviii + 277 incl. 26 figs and 2 maps. London–New York: Routledge, 2019. £120. 978 1 4724 3218 6

978 1 4724 3218 6 In this groundbreaking book, James Kapalo provides us with the first monograph on the quasi-monastic, utopian religious community which emerged in response to the charismatic ministry and apocalyptic preaching of the Moldovan monk Inochentie Levizor (1875–1917), born in the shifting borderlands of nineteenth-century Bessarabia, today's Moldova, Transnistria and Ukraine. Drawing extensively on archival security police reports of the Communist period, as well as ethnographic interviews among contemporary Inochentists, Kapalo has produced a compellingly argued narrative which presents Inochentist identity as a liminal phenomenon not only suspended on the geographical periphery, but also on the borderlands between heresy and institutional Orthodoxy. [...]the book makes a weighty contribution to scholarship on vernacular religious practice and belief on the Russian imperial, Romanian and Soviet peripheries, on spiritual eldership and dissenting movements within Orthodoxy, and will have wider interest for scholars of charismatic, monastic and apocalyptic movements.