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Author : Marcu Beza
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258900777
This is a new release of the original 1928 edition.
Author : Marcu Beza
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783846046944
Reprint of the original, first published in 1928.
Author : Ana R. Chelariu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 303104052X
This book presents rich information on Romanian mythology and folklore, previously under-explored in Western scholarship, placing the source material within its historical context and drawing comparisons with European and Indo-European culture and mythological tradition. The author presents a detailed comparative study and argues that Romanian mythical motifs have roots in Indo-European heritage, by analyzing and comparing mythical motifs from the archaic cultures, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Sanskrit, and Persian, with written material and folkloric data that reflects the Indo-European culture. The book begins by outlining the history of the Getae-Dacians, beginning with Herodotus' description of their customs and beliefs in the supreme god Zamolxis, then moves to the Roman wars and the Romanization process, before turning to recent debates in linguistics and genetics regarding the provenance of a shared language, religion, and culture in Europe. The author then analyzes myth creation, its relation to rites, and its functions in society, before examining specific examples of motifs and themes from Romanian folk tales and songs. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of folklore studies, comparative mythology, linguistic anthropology, and European culture. Ana R. Chelariu is an independent researcher and retired former library director from New Jersey, USA. She has published several books and a number of articles on the topic of comparative mythology, and presented papers at international conferences. .
Author : H. T. Norris
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Balkan Peninsula
ISBN : 0872499774
From the earliest times, also, many Balkan Muslim soldiers and bureaucrats, as well as scholars and poets, made an impact on the wider Islamic world, the most prominent being Mohammed Ali, the founder of modern Egypt.
Author : Nicolae Constantinescu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : UOM:39015064802542
Author : Alan Ogden
Publisher : Histria Books
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781592112524
Romania Revisited is the definitive story of the journeys made by English travelers to Romania between 1602 and 1941. The author, Alan Ogden, interweaves the impressions of previous generations into the witty account of his own journeys made in the summer and winter of 1998. Starting with the Transylvanian adventures of Captain John Smith in 1602, the bibliography is the most detailed inventory yet published of English travel writing on Romania.The author's own journey is a comprehensive and perspicacious review of today's Romania. Ogden focuses on the heritage and art of the country, while providing a delightful account of his own experiences en route. The book is illustrated with the author's own photographs, based on the work of Kurt Hielscher in 1933, and with helpful maps drawn by the author. Romania Revisited makes a valuable contribution to the study of the external perception of Romania over the centuries and is the perfect travel companion for today's visitor.
Author : Claudia Costin
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527514737
This volume explores a selection of significant and topical elements from the vast amount of Romanian folkloric and mythological material. It sheds light on the mythical-ritualistic aspects of three complex calendar holydays (specifically The Lads of Brașov, Călușarii, and Sânzienele), whose ritualistic sequences, laden with mythical-symbolical reminiscences, were lost during the Communist period and are known today thanks to their spectacular features. Such aspects include demonic mythical beings (such as Iele, Rusalii, Știma Apei, The Woodwoman, and Strigoi) that define the collective imaginary; significant myths that have found their artistic expression in fairytales and legends; and the role of women in traditional Romanian society.
Author : Douglas Allen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1998-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136769443
This multidisciplinary study is the first book devoted entirely to the critical interpretation of the writings of Mircea Eliade on myth. One of the most popular and influential historians and theorists of myth, Eliade argued that all myth is religious. Douglas Allen critically interprets Eliade's theories of religion, myth, and symbolism and analys
Author : Christian Suhr,Rane Willerslev
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857459657
The disruptive power of montage has often been regarded as a threat to scholarly representations of the social world. This volume asserts the opposite: that the destabilization of commonsense perception is the very precondition for transcending social and cultural categories. The contributors—anthropologists, filmmakers, photographers, and curators—explore the use of montage as a heuristic tool for comparative analysis in anthropological writing, film, and exhibition making. Exploring phenomena such as human perception, memory, visuality, ritual, time, and globalization, they apply montage to restructure our basic understanding of social reality. Furthermore, as George E. Marcus suggests in the afterword, the power of montage that this volume exposes lies in its ability to open the very “combustion chamber” of social theory by juxtaposing one’s claims to knowledge with the path undertaken to arrive at those claims.
Author : Eugenia Roussou,Clara Saraiva
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643911100
This volume brings together experts in ethnology, anthropology, folklore, sociology and history of art, in order to discuss the varieties or religious expression through ritual performance, empirical ethnographic analysis and sensory modes of perception. The primary goal of the book is to re-centralize the importance of expressing religion through performance, art and the senses, and to approach performative action as religion in a variety of sociocultural, historical, political and spiritual contexts. The authors in this volume examine, in distinct yet convergent ways, how religion is creatively expressed, ritually performed and sensorially experienced at present and/or in the past. The significance of this book lies exactly on the richness and diversity of expressions of religion that are presented here, and on the multi-disciplinary dialogue that is generated among diverse theoretical, analytical and methodological approaches.
Author : Kaarina Aitamurto,Scott Simpson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317544623
The resurgence of religiosity in post-communist Europe has been widely noted, but the full spectrum of religious practice in the diverse countries of Central and Eastern Europe has been effectively hidden behind the region's range of languages and cultures. This volume presents an overview of one of the most notable developments in the region, the rise of Pagan and "Native Faith" movements. Modern Pagan and Native Faith Movements in Central and Eastern Europe brings together scholars from across the region to present both systematic country overviews - of Armenia, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, and Ukraine - as well as essays exploring specific themes such as racism and the internet. The volume will be of interest to scholars of new religious movements especially those looking for a more comprehensive picture of contemporary paganism beyond the English-speaking world.
Author : Ben Whitmore
Publisher : Briar Books
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780473174583
The 'creation myths' of modern witchcraft and Paganism were decisively toppled at the turn of this century in Ronald Hutton's celebrated book, Triumph of the Moon. But did Hutton topple more than just myths? Are some truths also hidden in the rubble? Did paganism really die out centuries ago? Was witchcraft really no more than a fantasy? Were the Gods of Wicca really born out of the Romantic movement? Did Gerald Gardner lie about his initiation into witchcraft? Ben Whitmore has retraced many of Hutton's steps, critically evaluating the evidence, and he now suggests that the truth may be quite different and even more fascinating. Drawing on a wealth of scholarly material, Whitmore demonstrates that the field of Pagan history is anything but barren ground - it is rich and fertile, and we have barely begun to cultivate it.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : PediaPress
Page : 643 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Celts
ISBN : 0719025796
Author : Paul Betts,Stephen A. Smith
Publisher : Springer
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137546395
Religion and science were fundamental aspects of Eastern European communist political culture from the very beginning, and remained in uneasy tension across the region over the decades. While both topics have long attracted a great deal of scholarly attention, they almost invariably have been studied discretely as separate stories. Religion, Science and Communism in Cold War Europe is the first scholarly effort to explore the delicate interface of religion, science and communism in Cold War Europe. It brings together an international team of researchers who address this relationship from a number of national viewpoints and thematic perspectives, ranging from mysticism to social science, space exploration to the socialist lifecycle, and architectural heritage to pop culture.