Text, context and performance [electronic resource] : Gagauz folk religion in discourse and practice / by James Alexander Kapaló.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kapaló, James Alexander.

Series:

Studies in the history of religions ; 135.

Numen book series. Studies in the history of religions, 0169-8834 ; v. 135

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gagauz (Turkic people)--Moldova--Religion.

Gagauz (Turkic people).

Folk religion--Moldova.

Folk religion.

Gagauz (Turkic people)--Ukraine--Odesa--Religion.

Folk religion--Ukraine--Odesa.

Moldova--Religious life and customs.

Moldova.

Odesa (Ukraine)--Religious life and customs.

Odesa (Ukraine).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (372 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Past scholarship on the Gagauz people has focused on their ethnic origins and the tension between their Christian faith and Turkish linguistic identity. This study, based on extensive fieldwork in the Republic of Moldova, approaches the problem of this central dichotomy in Gagauz identity through the lens of daily religious practices. This empirical approach reveals how scholarly discourses on ‘folk religion’ guide the local fieldworker’s identification of what are ‘folk’ religious practices and thus actualises 'folk religion' in a given context.The book offers a fresh methodological perspective on ‘folk religion’ as discourse and object of study and is the first monograph in a Western European language on the religion, history and identity of this under-studied European people.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / James Alexander Kapalo

Introduction / James Alexander Kapalo

Chapter One Folk Religion in Discourse and Practice / James Alexander Kapalo

Chapter Two Historical Narrative and the Discourse on Origins / James Alexander Kapalo

Chapter Three Liturgy, Language and the Vernacularisation of Orthodoxy / James Alexander Kapalo

Chapter Four Language, Lay Agency and the ‘Surrogate’ Text Bu epistolii yazdı kendi Allah – ‘This letter was written by God himself ’ / James Alexander Kapalo

Chapter Five Healing and Divine Authority Düştän Allahın lafı sana geldi! – ‘The words of God have come to you in a dream’ / James Alexander Kapalo

Chapter Six Healing, Text and Performance Allahın lafçaazınnan okuyêêrım – ‘I heal with the little words of God’ / James Alexander Kapalo

Chapter Seven Prayer as Social and Cosmological Performance Durmaksız dua ediniz. Herşeydä şükür ediniz – ‘Pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances . . .’ / James Alexander Kapalo

Chapter Eight Archaic Folk Prayer amongst the Gagauz Kim sölecek bu molitvayı onu iisözleyecek, dedi Allah – ‘And God said that he will bless whosoever says this prayer’ / James Alexander Kapalo

Conclusion / James Alexander Kapalo

Appendix One Gagauz Epistoliyas / James Alexander Kapalo

Appendix Two Gagauz Okumak and Exorcism Texts / James Alexander Kapalo

Appendix Three Archaic Prayers in the Gagauz Idiom / James Alexander Kapalo

Bibliography / James Alexander Kapalo

Index / James Alexander Kapalo.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-28088-4

9786613280886

90-04-21634-0

OCLC:

754582348

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004197992.i-352 DOI