Vernacular Religion in Everyday Life Expressions of Belief 1st Edition by Marion Bowman, Ulo Valk 1138940712 9781138940710

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ISBN 10: 1138940712 

ISBN 13: 9781138940710

Author: Marion Bowman; Ulo Valk

Vernacular religion is religion as people experience, understand, and practice it. It shapes everyday culture and disrupts the traditional boundaries between ‘official’ and ‘folk’ religion. The book analyses vernacular religion in a range of Christian denominations as well as in indigenous and New Age religion from the nineteenth century to today. How these differing expressions of belief are shaped by their individual, communal and national contexts is also explored. What is revealed is the consistency of genres, the persistence of certain key issues, and how globalization in all its cultural and technological forms is shaping contemporary faith practice. The book will be valuable to students of ethnology, folklore, religious studies, and anthropology.

Table of contents:

1. Introduction: Vernacular religion, generic expressions and the dynamics of belief

PART I: Belief as Practice

2. Everyday, fast and feast: Household work and the production of time in pre-modern Russian Orthodox Karelia

3. How to make a shrine with your own hands: Local holy places and vernacular religion in Russia

4. ‘I make my saints work …’: A Hungarian holy healer’s identity reflected in autobiographical stories and folk narratives

5. Chronic illness and the negotiation of vernacular religious belief

PART II: Traditions of Narrated Belief

6. Autobiographical and interpretative dynamics in the oral repertoire of a Vepsian woman

7. Hidden messages: Dream narratives about the dead as indirect communication

8. Religious legend as a shaper of identity: St Xenia in the mental universe of a Setu woman

PART III: Relationships between Humans and Others

9. Things act: Casual indigenous statements about the performance of object-persons

10. Haunted houses and haunting girls: Life and death in contemporary Argentinian folk narrative

11. Angels in Norway: Religious border-crossers and border-markers

12. ‘We, too, have seen a great miracle’: Conversations and narratives on the supernatural among Hungarian-speaking Catholics in a Romanian village

PART IV: Creation and Maintenance of Community and Identity

13. Komi hunter narratives

14. Stories of Santiago pilgrims: Tradition through creativity

15. Restoring/restorying Arthur and Bridget: Vernacular religion and contemporary spirituality in Glastonbury

PART V: Theoretical Reflections and Manifestations of the Vernacular

16. Belief as generic practice and vernacular theory in contemporary Estonia

17. Some epistemic problems with a vernacular worldview

Afterword: Manifestations of the religious vernacular: Ambiguity, power, and creativity

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