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

Contributor(s): Bowman, Marion | Valk, Ülo, 1962-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Sheffield ; Bristol, CT : Equinox Pub., 2012Description: xi, 404 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781908049506 (hardback); 1908049502 (hardback); 9781908049513 (pbk.); 1908049510 (pbk.)Other title: Expressions of beliefSubject(s): Religions -- Case studies | Ethnology -- Religious aspects -- Case studiesDDC classification: 305.8 LOC classification: BL41 | .V47 2012Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Everyday, fast and feast : household work and the production of time in pre-modern Russian Orthodox Karelia / Marja-Liisa Keinänen -- How to make a shrine with your own hands : local holy places and vernacular religion in Russia / Alexander Panchenko -- 'I make my saints work...' : a Hungarian holy healer's identity reflected in autobiographical stories and folk narratives / Judit Kis-Halas -- Chronic illness and the negotiation of vernacular religious belief / Anne Rowbottom -- Autobiographical and interpretive dynamics in the oral repertoire of a Vepsian woman / Madis Arukask and Taisto-Kalevi Raudalainen -- Hidden messages : dream narratives about the dead as indirect communication / Ágnes Hesz -- Religious legend as a shaper of 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 folk narrative / María Inés Palleiro -- Angels in Norway : religious border-crossers and border-markers / Ingvild Sælid Gilhus -- 'We, too, have seen a great miracle' : conversations and narratives on the supernatural among Hungarian-speaking Catholics in a Romanian village / Éva Pócs -- Komi hunter narratives / Arte Leete and Vladimir Lipin -- Stories of Santiago pilgrims : tradition through creativity / Tiina Sepp -- Restoring/restorying Arthur and Bridget : vernacular religion and contemporary spirituality in Glastonbury / Marion Bowman -- Belief as generic practice and vernacular theory in contemporary Estonia / Ülo Valk -- Some epistemic problems with a vernacular worldview / Seppo Knuuttila -- Manifestations of the religious vernacular : ambiguity, power, and creativity / Leonard Norman Primiano.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Everyday, fast and feast : household work and the production of time in pre-modern Russian Orthodox Karelia / Marja-Liisa Keinänen -- How to make a shrine with your own hands : local holy places and vernacular religion in Russia / Alexander Panchenko -- 'I make my saints work...' : a Hungarian holy healer's identity reflected in autobiographical stories and folk narratives / Judit Kis-Halas -- Chronic illness and the negotiation of vernacular religious belief / Anne Rowbottom -- Autobiographical and interpretive dynamics in the oral repertoire of a Vepsian woman / Madis Arukask and Taisto-Kalevi Raudalainen -- Hidden messages : dream narratives about the dead as indirect communication / Ágnes Hesz -- Religious legend as a shaper of 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 folk narrative / María Inés Palleiro -- Angels in Norway : religious border-crossers and border-markers / Ingvild Sælid Gilhus -- 'We, too, have seen a great miracle' : conversations and narratives on the supernatural among Hungarian-speaking Catholics in a Romanian village / Éva Pócs -- Komi hunter narratives / Arte Leete and Vladimir Lipin -- Stories of Santiago pilgrims : tradition through creativity / Tiina Sepp -- Restoring/restorying Arthur and Bridget : vernacular religion and contemporary spirituality in Glastonbury / Marion Bowman -- Belief as generic practice and vernacular theory in contemporary Estonia / Ülo Valk -- Some epistemic problems with a vernacular worldview / Seppo Knuuttila -- Manifestations of the religious vernacular : ambiguity, power, and creativity / Leonard Norman Primiano.

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