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1 online resource (417 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; 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; 3. How to make a shrine with your own hands: Local holy places and vernacular religion in Russia; 4. 'I make my saints work ... ': A Hungarian holy healer's identity reflected in autobiographical stories and folk narratives. |
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5. Chronic illness and the negotiation of vernacular religious beliefPART II: Traditions of Narrated Belief; 6. Autobiographical and interpretative dynamics in the oral repertoire of a Vepsian woman; 7. Hidden messages: Dream narratives about the dead as indirect communication; 8. Religious legend as a shaper of identity: St Xenia in the mental universe of a Setu woman; PART III: Relationships between Humans and Others; 9. Things act: Casual indigenous statements about the performance of object-persons. |
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10. Haunted houses and haunting girls: Life and death in contemporary Argentinian folk narrative11. Angels in Norway: Religious border-crossers and border-markers; 12. 'We, too, have seen a great miracle': Conversations and narratives on the supernatural among Hungarian-speaking Catholics in a Romanian village; PART IV: Creation and Maintenance of Community and Identity; 13. Komi hunter narratives; 14. Stories of Santiago pilgrims: Tradition through creativity; 15. Restoring/restorying Arthur and Bridget: Vernacular religion and contemporary spirituality in Glastonbury. |
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PART V: Theoretical Reflections and Manifestations of the Vernacular16. Belief as generic practice and vernacular theory in contemporary Estonia; 17. Some epistemic problems with a vernacular worldview; Afterword: Manifestations of the religious vernacular: Ambiguity, power, and creativity; Index. |
| Summary |
Vernacular religion is religion as people experience, understand, and practice it. It shapes everyday culture and disrupts the traditional boundaries between ''official'' and ''folk'' religion. 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. How these differing expressions of belief are shaped by their individual, communal and national contexts is also explored. What is revealed is the consistency of genres, the persistence of certain key issues, and how globalization in all its cult. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Religions -- Case studies.
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Religions. |
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Case studies.
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Ethnology -- Religious aspects -- Case studies.
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Ethnology -- Religious aspects. |
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Electronic books.
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Case studies.
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| Added Author |
Bowman, Marion.
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Valk, Ülo, 1962-
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Expressions of belief |
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Print version: Bowman, Marion. Vernacular Religion in Everyday Life : Expressions of Belief. Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, ©2014 9781908049506 |
| ISBN |
9781317543541 (electronic book) |
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1317543548 (electronic book) |
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9781317543534 (ePub ebook) |
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131754353X (ePub ebook) |
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9781315728643 (e-book ; PDF) |
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1315728648 (e-book ; PDF) |
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9781908049506 (hardback) |
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