Text, Context and Performance

Gagauz Folk Religion in Discourse and Practice
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-19799-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 135, 372 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 703 g

Reihe: Numen Book Series

Past scholarship on the Gagauz people has focused on their ethnic origins and the tension between their Christian faith and Turkish linguistic identity. This study, based on extensive fieldwork in the Republic of Moldova, approaches the problem of this central dichotomy in Gagauz identity through the lens of daily religious practices. This empirical approach reveals how scholarly discourses on ‘folk religion’ guide the local fieldworker’s identification of what are ‘folk’ religious practices and thus actualises 'folk religion' in a given context.The book offers a fresh methodological perspective on ‘folk religion’ as discourse and object of study and is the first monograph in a Western European language on the religion, history and identity of this under-studied European people.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in the folk religion and history of the Gagauz and Turkish speaking Christians, Orthodoxy in Moldova and Romania, as well as sociologists, anthropologists and folklorists of religion

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kapaló, James A

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Sonstige Religionen: Leben & Brauch, Soziale Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Kapaló, James A
James A. Kapaló, Ph.D. (2009) in the Study of Religions, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, is Lecturer in the Study of Religions at University College Cork, Ireland.