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Peasants, Pilgrims, and Sacred Promises
Laura Stark
2002
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.
This book is part of the Studia Fennica Folkloristica series.
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Keywords
- Alternative belief systems
- animism
- anthropology
- Cattle
- christianity
- Death
- Divination
- Eastern Europe
- Europe
- Finland
- Finno-Ugric languages
- Folk religion
- Forest
- Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe)
- Geographical Qualifiers
- Haltija
- Humanities
- illness
- Karelia
- Language qualifiers
- Monastery
- Northern Europe, Scandinavia
- Orthodoxy
- Pilgrimage
- Pre-Christian
- Religion & beliefs
- Russia
- Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
- Society & Social Sciences
- Sociology & anthropology
- Supernatural
- thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DN Northern Europe, Scandinavia::1DNF Finland
- thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DT Eastern Europe::1DTA Russia
- thema EDItEUR::2 Language qualifiers::2F Ural-Altaic and Hyperborean languages::2FC Finno-Ugric languages
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology
- thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRM Christianity
- thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRY Alternative belief systems
- Ural-Altaic & Hyperborean languages
Links
DOI: 10.21435/sff.11web: http://oa.finlit.fi/site/books/10.21435/sff.11/
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