Marion Bowman, Ulo Valk

Vernacular Religion in Everyday Life (eBook, PDF)

Expressions of Belief

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The book analyses vernacular religion in a range of Christian denominations as well as in indigenous and New Age religion from the nineteenth century to today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317543541
• Artikelnr.: 42154094

Autorenporträt

Marion Bowman, Open University, and Ülo Valk, University of Tartu, Estonia

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Vernacular Religion, Generic Expressions and the Dynamics
of Belief Part I: Belief as Practice 2. Everyday, Fast and Feast: Household
Work and the Production of Time in Pre-Modern Russian Orthodox Karelia,
Marja-Liisa Keinanen 3. How to Make a Shrine with Your Own Hands: Local
Holy Places and Vernacular Religion in Russia, Alexander Panchenko 4. "I
make my saints work ...": A Hungarian Holy Healer's Identity Reflected in
Autobiographical Stories and Folk Narratives, Judit Kis-Halas 5. Chronic
Illness and the Negotiation of Vernacular Religious Belief, Anne Rowbottom
Part II: Traditions of Narrated Belief 6. Autobiographical and
Interpretative Dynamics in the Oral Repertoire of a Vepsian Woman, Madis
Arukask and Taisto-Kalevi Raudalainen 7. Hidden Messages: Dream Narratives
about the Dead as Indirect Communication, Agnes Hesz 8. Religious Legend as
a Shaper of Identity: St. Xenia in the Mental Universe of a Setu Woman,
Merili Metsvahi Part III: Relationships between Humans and Others 9. Things
Act: Casual Indigenous Statements about the Performance of Object-Persons,
Graham Harvey 10. Haunted Houses and Haunting Girls: Life and Death in
Contemporary Argentinian Folk Narrative, Maria Ines Palleiro 11. Angels in
Norway: Religious Border-Crossers and Border-Markers, Ingvild Salid Gilhus
12. "We, too, have seen a great miracle": Conversations and Narratives on
the Supernatural among Hungarian-Speaking Catholics in a Romanian Village,
Eva Pocs Part IV: Creation and Maintenance of Community and Identity 13.
Komi Hunter Narratives, Art Leete and Vladimir Lipin 14. Stories of
Santiago Pilgrims: Tradition Through Creativity, Tiina Sepp 15.
Restoring/Restorying Arthur and Bridget: Vernacular Religion and
Contemporary Spirituality in Glastonbury, Marion Bowman Part V: Theoretical
Reflections and Manifestations of the Vernacular 16. Belief as Generic
Practice and Vernacular Theory in Contemporary Estonia, Ulo Valk 17. Some
Epistemic Problems with a Vernacular Worldview, Seppo Knuuttila Afterword:
Manifestations of the Religious Vernacular: Ambiguity, Power and
Creativity, Leonard Norman Primiano