Peasants Pilgrims And Sacred Promises

Author : Laura Stark
Publisher : Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789517465786

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Peasants, Pilgrims, and Sacred Promises by Laura Stark Pdf

Lying on the border between eastern and western Christendom, Orthodox Karelia preserved its unique religious culture into the 19th and 20th centuries, when it was described and recorded by Finnish and Karelian folklore collectors. This colorful array of ritulas and beliefs involving nature spirits, saints, the dead, and pilgrimage to monasteries represented a unigue fusion of official Church ritual and doctrine and pre-Christian ethnic folk belief. This book undertakes a fascinating exploration into many aspects of Orthodox Karelian ritual life: beliefs in supernatural forces, folk models of illness, body concepts, divination, holy icons, the role of the ritual specialist and healer, the divide between nature and culture, images of forest, the cult of the dead, and the popular image of monasteries and holy hermits. It will appeal to anyone interested in popular religion, the cognitive study of religion, ritual studies, medical anthropology, and the folk traditions and symbolism of the Balto-Finnic peoples.

Author : Laura Stark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Christianity
ISBN : 9522227668

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Peasants ; Pilgrims ; and Sacred Promises by Laura Stark Pdf

Lying on the border between eastern and western Christendom, Orthodox Karelia preserved its unique religious culture into the 19th and 20th centuries, when it was described and recorded by Finnish and Karelian folklore collectors. This colorful array of ritulas and beliefs involving nature spirits, saints, the dead, and pilgrimage to monasteries represented a unigue fusion of official Church ritual and doctrine and pre-Christian ethnic folk belief. This book undertakes a fascinating exploration into many aspects of Orthodox Karelian ritual life: beliefs in supernatural forces, folk models of illness, body concepts, divination, holy icons, the role of the ritual specialist and healer, the divide between nature and culture, images of forest, the cult of the dead, and the popular image of monasteries and holy hermits. It will appeal to anyone interested in popular religion, the cognitive study of religion, ritual studies, medical anthropology, and the folk traditions and symbolism of the Balto-Finnic peoples

Author : Oliver Southall
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-17
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781789147421

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Rowan by Oliver Southall Pdf

A cultural history of a reddish, much-loved shrub, sometimes called mountain ash or dogberry. Rowan is the first in-depth natural and cultural history of this much-loved plant sometimes called mountain ash or dogberry. Through myth, medicine, literature, land art, and contemporary rewilding, Oliver Southall uncovers the many meanings of this singular reddish, fruit shrub: a potent symbol of nostalgia on the one hand and of environmental activism on the other. Taking the reader on an eclectic journey across history, Rowan charts our changing relationships with nature and landscape, raising urgent questions about how we value and relate to the non-human world.

Author : Catharina Raudvere,Jens Peter Schjødt
Publisher : Nordic Academic Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789187121302

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More than Mythology by Catharina Raudvere,Jens Peter Schjødt Pdf

Written by distinguished scholars from multiple perspectives, this account widens the interpretative scope on religious life among the pre-Christian Scandinavian people. The religion of the Viking Age is conventionally identified through its mythology: the ambiguous character Odin, the forceful Thor, and the end of the world approaching in Ragnarök. However, pre-Christian religion consisted of so much more than mythic imagery and legends and has long lingered in folk tradition. Exploring the religion of the North through an interdisciplinary approach, the book sheds new light on a number of topics, including rituals, gender relations, social hierarchies, and interregional contacts between the Nordic tradition and the Sami and Finnish regions.

Author : Ionuţ Epurescu-Pascovici
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783275762

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Human Agency in Medieval Society, 1100-1450 by Ionuţ Epurescu-Pascovici Pdf

Argues the case for the individual as autonomous moral agent in the later Middle Ages.

Author : Mark Bassin,Catriona Kelly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107011175

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Soviet and Post-Soviet Identities by Mark Bassin,Catriona Kelly Pdf

A fresh look at post-Soviet Russia and Eurasia and at the Soviet historical background that shaped the present.

Author : Sari Katajala-Peltomaa,Raisa Maria Toivo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Europe
ISBN : 9783030921408

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Histories of Experience in the World of Lived Religion by Sari Katajala-Peltomaa,Raisa Maria Toivo Pdf

'At a historic moment, when religion shows all its social and political strength in various post-modern societies around our globe, this fascinating collection of studies from the Middle Ages to twentieth-century Europe demonstrates all the richness and innovative force of investigating individual and shared experiences when questioning the cultural, political and social place of religion in society. It also makes known in English the work of a series of Finnish historians elaborating together a pioneering vision of the notion of experience in the discipline of history.' - Piroska Nagy, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada This open access book offers a theoretical introduction to the history of experience on three conceptual levels: everyday experience, experience as process, and experience as structure. Chapters apply 'experience' to empirical case studies, exploring how people have made and shared their religion through experience in history. This book understands experience as a simultaneously socially constructed and intimately personal process that connects individuals to communities and past to future, thereby forming structures that create and direct societies. It represents the crossroads of a new field of the history of experience, and an established tradition of the history of lived religion. Chapters offer a longue duree view from the fourteenth-century heretics, via experiences of miracle, madness, sickness, suffering, prayer, conversion and death, to the religious artisanship of soldiers in the Second World War frontlines. It concentrates on Northern Europe, but includes materials from Italy, France and United Kingdom.

Author : Kati Parppei
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004209534

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"The Oldest One in Russia" by Kati Parppei Pdf

Contributing, for instance, to the fields of nationality and borderland studies, this book offers a fascinating study of the process of “writing a worthy past” for the Russian Orthodox monastery of Valaam during the 18th and 19th centuries.

Author : T. Utriainen,P. Salmesvuori
Publisher : Springer
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137383471

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Finnish Women Making Religion by T. Utriainen,P. Salmesvuori Pdf

Finnish Women Making Religion puts forth the complex intersections that Lutheranism, the most important religious tradition in Finland, has had with other religions as well as with the larger society and politics also internationally.

Author : Regina F. Bendix,Galit Hasan-Rokem
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781118863145

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A Companion to Folklore by Regina F. Bendix,Galit Hasan-Rokem Pdf

A Companion to Folklore presents an original and comprehensive collection of essays from international experts in the field of folklore studies. Unprecedented in depth and scope, this state-of-the-art collection uniquely displays the vitality of folklore research across the globe. An unprecedented collection of original, state of the art essays on folklore authored by international experts Examines the practices and theoretical approaches developed to understand the phenomena of folklore Considers folklore in the context of multi-disciplinary topics that include poetics, performance, religious practice, myth, ritual and symbol, oral textuality, history, law, politics and power as well as the social base of folklore Selected by Choice as a 2013 Outstanding Academic Title

Author : Ülo Valk,Daniel Sävborg
Publisher : Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789522229946

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Storied and Supernatural Places by Ülo Valk,Daniel Sävborg Pdf

This book addresses the narrative construction of places, the relationship between tradition communities and their environments, the supernatural dimensions of cultural landscapes and wilderness as they are manifested in European folklore and in early literary sources, such as the Old Norse sagas. The first section “Explorations in Place-Lore” discusses cursed and sacred places, churches, graveyards, haunted houses, cemeteries, grave mounds, hill forts, and other tradition dominants in the micro-geography of the Nordic and Baltic countries, both retrospectively and from synchronous perspectives. The supernaturalisation of places appears as a socially embedded set of practices that involves storytelling and ritual behaviour. Articles show, how places accumulate meanings as they are layered by stories and how this shared knowledge about environments can actualise in personal experiences. Articles in the second section “Regional Variation, Environment and Spatial Dimensions” address ecotypes, milieu-morphological adaptation in Nordic and Baltic-Finnic folklores, and the active role of tradition bearers in shaping beliefs about nature as well as attitudes towards the environment. The meaning of places and spatial distance as the marker of otherness and sacrality in Old Norse sagas is also discussed here. The third section of the book “Traditions and Histories Reconsidered” addresses major developments within the European social histories and mentalities. It scrutinizes the history of folkloristics, its geopolitical dimensions and its connection with nation building, as well as looking at constructions of the concepts Baltic, Nordic and Celtic. It also sheds light on the social base of folklore and examines vernacular views toward legendry and the supernatural.

Author : Chris Hann,Hermann Goltz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520260566

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Eastern Christians in Anthropological Perspective by Chris Hann,Hermann Goltz Pdf

"This collection of essays is a welcome and refreshing gift in a virtual desert. There has been very little comparative anthropological research on the Eastern churches, and this volume will fill that gap."—Michael Herzfeld, author of Evicted from Eternity: The Restructuring of Modern Rome "At long last there is a book on the anthropology of Christianity that devotes direct and sustained attention to the diverse Eastern Christian Churches—both Orthodox and Catholic. This book should be read by anyone who thinks anthropologically about Christianity. Scales will fall from their eyes and they will behold an entire wing of Christianity that has, until now, gone mostly unnoticed and practically untheorized."—Douglas Rogers, author of The Old Faith and the Russian Land: A Historical Ethnography of Ethics in the Urals

Author : Helena Hamerow,David A. Hinton,Sally Crawford
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 1110 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199212149

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The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology by Helena Hamerow,David A. Hinton,Sally Crawford Pdf

Written by a team of experts and presenting the results of the most up-to-date research, The Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology will both stimulate and support further investigation into a society poised at the interface between prehistory and history.

Author : Trude Fonneland,Tiina Äikäs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781009376389

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Shamanic Materialities in Nordic Climates by Trude Fonneland,Tiina Äikäs Pdf

Author : Anders Andrén,Kristina Jennbert
Publisher : Nordic Academic Press
Page : 877 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789187121159

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Old Norse Religion in Long-Term Perspectives by Anders Andrén,Kristina Jennbert Pdf

Consisting of more than 70 papers written by scholars concerned with pre-Christian Norse religion, the articles discuss subjects such as archaeology, art history, historical archaeology, history, history of ideas, theological history, literature, onomastics, Scandinavian languages, and Scandinavian studies. The interdisciplinary aim of the book brings together text-based and material-based researchers to improve scholarly exchange and dialogue and provide a variety of contributions that elucidate topics such as worldview and cosmology, ritual and religious practice, myth and memory, as well as reception and present-day use of old Norse religion.