Traditional culture
Religion
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Religion
- Institutional organisation
- Recent historical background of the religious situation in Estonia
- Lutheranism
- Re-initiated and new religious movements
- Earlier awakening movements
- The Moravian movement
- Catholicism
- Orthodoxy
- Pre-Christian native religion and attempts of restoration
- Earth Religion
- New Age
- Buddhism in Estonia
- Ethnic religious minorities
- Secularism in Estonian society
Cultural domains
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Theatre
- Estonian theatre - a venerable centenarian
- "Us" and "them" in Estonian theatre
- Karl Menning's theatre — serving an apprenticeship
- Voldemar Panso's theatre — the time of paradoxes
- New Theatre — the theatre of the Big Game
- Fathers and sons of the new theatre
- When will the new "new theatre" come?
- The historical time of Estonian theatre
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Literature
- Estonian literature - born on the margins of Europe
- Baltic German literature and its impact
- Seeking the contours of a ‘truly’ Estonian literature
- Literature and an independent Estonia
- Estonian literature in two cultural spheres
- The Fifties and Sixties
- Literature and congealed time
- A bold new Estonian literature
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Music
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Popular awareness in Estonian music
The following names are internationally known and respected — Rudolf Tobias, Arvo Pärt, Veljo Tormis, Lepo Sumera, Erki-Sven Tüür… We have different schools of music with ...
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The model of world music
The change in perception of music by Estonians after the disintegration of the Soviet regime was explosive. It could not have been otherwise considering that ...
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Openness and seclusion
During the Soviet regime, it was considered natural in Estonia to regard seclusion as ideal. The political norm, even in its milder forms, required the ...
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Today and tomorrow
The Estonian music today might be divided into five subcategories according to the levels of openness and activity.
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