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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The art of dance
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Folk dance
Throughout history dance has given various nations an opportunity to record their experiences, feelings and personalities. Not all nations have been able to create strong ...
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Dance festivals
In 1934 the first Estonian Games or National Games of Gymnastics and Sports were organised in Tallinn, one part of which was performance of folk ...
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The beginning of modern dance and classical ballet
Estonian artistic dance, i.e. the dance of theatre stages or concert halls, did not grow out of the traditions of folk dance, but rather ...
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Modern dance in Estonia today
During the Soviet era, modern dance could not develop in Estonia. It was forbidden, as were most of the 'evils of the West'. After regaining ...
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