Vernacular religion in everyday life : expressions of belief / edited by Marion Bowman and Ülo Valk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bowman, Marion, 1955- editor.

Valk, Ülo, 1962- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religions--Case studies.

Religions.

Ethnology--Religious aspects--Case studies.

Ethnology.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 404 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Expressions of belief

Place of Publication:

Durham : Acumen Publishing, 2012.

Language Note:

English

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 cultural and technological forms is shaping contemporary faith practice. The book will be valuable to students of ethnology, folklore, religious studies, anthropology, and religious studies.

Contents:

Introduction: vernacular religion, generic expressions and the dynamics of belief

Everyday, fast and feast: household work and the producation of time in pre-modern Russian Orthodox Karelia / Marja-Liisa Keinanen

How to make a shrine with your own hands: local holy palces and vernacular religion in Russia / Alexander Panchenko

'I make my saints work ... ': a Hungarian holy healer's identity reflected in wutobiographical stories and folk narratives / Judit Kis-Halas

Chronic illness and the nefotriation of vernacular religious belief / Anne Rowbottom

Autobiographical and interpretative dynamics in teh oral repertoire of a Vepsian woman / Madis Arukask and Taisto-Kalevi Raudalainen

Hidden messages: dream narratives about the dead as indirect communication / Agnes Hesz

Religious legend as a shaper if identity: St Xenia in the mental universe of a Setu woman / Merili Metsvahi

Things act: casual indigenous statements about the performance of object-persons / Graham Harvey

Haunted houses and haunting girls: life and death in contemporary Argentinian fold narrative / Maria Ines Palleiro

Angel in Norway: Religious border-crossers and border-markers / Ingvild Saelid Gilhus

'We, too, have seen a great miracle': conversations and narratives on the supernatural among Hungarian-speaking Catholics in a Romanian village / Eva Pocs

Komi hunter narratives / Art Leete and Vladimir Lipin

Stories of Santiago pilgrims: tradition through creativity / Tiina Sepp

Restoring/restorying Arthur and Bridget: vernacular religion and contemporary sprituality in Glastonbury / Marion Bowman

Belief as generic practice and vernacular theory in contemporary Estonia / Ulo Valk

Some epistemic problems with a vernacular worldview / Seppo Knuuttila

Afterword: manifestations of the religious vernacular: ambiguity, power, and creativity / Leonard Norman Primiano.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-317-54353-X

1-138-94071-2

1-317-54354-8

1-315-72864-8

1-84465-877-5

9781315728643

OCLC:

893333268