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Text, context and performance : Gagauz folk religion in discourse and practice /

This ethnographic study of Gagauz religion offers an original perspective on 'folk religion' as discourse and object of study. It is also the first monograph published in a Western language on this little-known European people's history and culture.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kapaló, James Alexander
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
Colección:Studies in the history of religions ; 135.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Note on Transliteration, Names and Toponyms; Acknowledgements; Glossary of Frequently Used Terms and Abbreviations in Gagauz and Russian; List of Illustrations; List of Maps; Introduction; Chapter One Folk Religion in Discourse and Practice; The Discourse on Folk Religion in the Context of Eastern and Central Europe; The Language and Practice of Folk Religion; On Method and Methodology; Human and Superhuman Agency in Language; Text, Context, Performance; Chapter Two Historical Narrative and the Discourse on Origins; Migration and Dislocation.
  • The Discourse on Origins, Ethnogenesis and RaceHistorical Narratives and Discourses in the Construction of Gagauz National Consciousness; Nationhood and Religion in the Post-Çakir Years; The Contested Nature of Gagauz Identity in the Post-Soviet Era; Conclusion; Chapter Three Liturgy, Language and the Vernacularisation of Orthodoxy; The Liturgy: Observing the Orthodox Faith; The Three Languages of Gagauz Orthodoxy; Gagauz Language, Liturgy and Scripture in the Post-Soviet Era; Conclusion.
  • Chapter Four Language, Lay Agency and the 'Surrogate' Text Bu epistolii yazdı kendi Allah
  • 'This letter was written by God himself 'Russian, Moldovan and Gagauz Apocalypticism; Epistoliyas and Apocalyptic Texts in the Gagauz Language; Translations, Translators and Tetratkas; Epistoliyas in Folk Religious Practice; Conclusion; Chapter Five Healing and Divine Authority Düştän Allahın lafı sana geldi!
  • 'The words of God have come to you in a dream'; The Traditional Healing System; The İlaççılar; Conclusion.
  • Chapter Six Healing, Text and Performance Allahın lafçaazınnan okuyêêrım
  • 'I heal with the little words of God'The 'Texts' of Gagauz Healing Practices; The Simple Charm; 'Epic' or Narrative Charms; Ratification Formulas; Ritual Actions, Implements and Substances; Reality, Metaphor, Belief; The Orthodox Church on Healing and Magic; Gagauz Healing Texts from the Tetratkas; Agency and the Relational Character of Religious Authority; Conclusion; Chapter Seven Prayer as Social and Cosmological Performance Durmaksız dua ediniz. Herşeydä şükür ediniz
  • 'Pray continually.
  • Give thanks in all circumstances . . .'Prayer, Tradition and Agency; Canonical Prayer in Performance; Toast-Prayer and the Social Performance of Cosmological Reality; Prayer, Divine Agents and the 'Magico-Religious'; Conclusion; 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'; The Contours of the Genre of 'Archaic Prayer'; Textual Motifs and Formulae; The Closing Formula; Prayer in Context and Performance; Transmission and Reception of 'Texts'; Prayer as Performance.