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The folk Bible of Central-Eastern Europe / Magdalena Zowczak.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zowczak, Magdalena, author.
- Series:
- European studies in theology, philosophy and history of religions ; v. 23.
- European studies in theology, philosophy and history of religions ; vol. 23
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible--Paraphrases, Polish--History and criticism.
- Bible.
- Bible--Folklore.
- Manners and customs.
- Polish people--Ethnic identity.
- Polish people.
- Literature and folklore.
- Eastern Europe.
- Poland.
- Folk literature, Polish--History and criticism.
- Folk literature, Polish.
- Apocryphal books--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Apocryphal books.
- Literature and folklore--Poland.
- Literature and folklore--Europe, Eastern.
- Poland--Social life and customs.
- Europe, Eastern--Social life and customs.
- Europe, Eastern.
- Genre:
- Folklore.
- Physical Description:
- 453 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; New York : Peter Lang, [2019]
- Summary:
- "This is the first Polish ethnological monograph to present how biblical themes function in folk culture in the context of rituals, customs and iconographic records and is based on ethnographic sources collected in Polish rural communities from central Poland to diasporas in Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine in 1989-96. It shows how biblical plots used to undergo interpretation, at the same time, infiltrating common sense knowledge. The novelty here is the joint analysis of themes from both Testaments, presenting the narrations in accordance to the way the local community perceived its identity. The biblical typology, influencing culture through tradition and liturgy, inspired a symbolic order adjusted to cyclic conceptions of time and space, characteristic of rural culture"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The folk Bible of Central-Eastern Europe : a border phenomenon
- The folk Bible and Apocrypha
- Old literature, that is notes and comments
- Religion today
- Contemporary sources from the Polish, Lithuanian and Belarus borderland
- God the Son and God the Father
- Luckless demiurge
- God, the Devil, and our Lady
- Problems with the apple
- Transformation of the worlds
- Cataclysms : the Flood and ears of corn
- Metamorphoses. A curse and God's punishment
- The transmigration of souls
- Cain and Abel
- The curious woman
- "Pharaohs"
- Jews. The myth of sacrifice
- Solomon and the Tower of Babel
- Sybil and the wood of the cross
- Symbols of communitas
- God's wanderings on Earth
- The symbols of communitas again.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Zowczak, Magdalena. Folk bible of Central-Eastern Europe.
- ISBN:
- 9783631787496
- 3631787499
- OCLC:
- 1127951836
- Publisher Number:
- 99983496873
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