| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, [3], 352 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Numen book series. Studies in the history of religions, 0169-8834 ; v. 135 |
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Studies in the history of religions ; 135.
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| Contents |
Note on Transliteration, Names and Toponyms; Acknowledgements; Glossary of Frequently Used Terms and Abbreviations in Gagauz and Russian; List of Illustrations; List of Maps; Introduction; Chapter One Folk Religion in Discourse and Practice; The Discourse on Folk Religion in the Context of Eastern and Central Europe; The Language and Practice of Folk Religion; On Method and Methodology; Human and Superhuman Agency in Language; Text, Context, Performance; Chapter Two Historical Narrative and the Discourse on Origins; Migration and Dislocation |
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The Discourse on Origins, Ethnogenesis and RaceHistorical Narratives and Discourses in the Construction of Gagauz National Consciousness; Nationhood and Religion in the Post-Çakir Years; The Contested Nature of Gagauz Identity in the Post-Soviet Era; Conclusion; Chapter Three Liturgy, Language and the Vernacularisation of Orthodoxy; The Liturgy: Observing the Orthodox Faith; The Three Languages of Gagauz Orthodoxy; Gagauz Language, Liturgy and Scripture in the Post-Soviet Era; Conclusion |
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Chapter Four Language, Lay Agency and the 'Surrogate' Text Bu epistolii yazdı kendi Allah -- 'This letter was written by God himself 'Russian, Moldovan and Gagauz Apocalypticism; Epistoliyas and Apocalyptic Texts in the Gagauz Language; Translations, Translators and Tetratkas; Epistoliyas in Folk Religious Practice; Conclusion; Chapter Five Healing and Divine Authority Düştän Allahın lafı sana geldi! -- 'The words of God have come to you in a dream'; The Traditional Healing System; The İlaççılar; Conclusion |
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Chapter Six Healing, Text and Performance Allahın lafçaazınnan okuyêêrım -- 'I heal with the little words of God'The 'Texts' of Gagauz Healing Practices; The Simple Charm; 'Epic' or Narrative Charms; Ratification Formulas; Ritual Actions, Implements and Substances; Reality, Metaphor, Belief; The Orthodox Church on Healing and Magic; Gagauz Healing Texts from the Tetratkas; Agency and the Relational Character of Religious Authority; Conclusion; Chapter Seven Prayer as Social and Cosmological Performance Durmaksız dua ediniz. Herşeydä şükür ediniz -- 'Pray continually |
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Give thanks in all circumstances . . .'Prayer, Tradition and Agency; Canonical Prayer in Performance; Toast-Prayer and the Social Performance of Cosmological Reality; Prayer, Divine Agents and the 'Magico-Religious'; Conclusion; Chapter Eight Archaic Folk Prayer amongst the Gagauz Kim sölecek bu molitvayı onu iisözleyecek, dedi Allah -- 'And God said that he will bless whosoever says this prayer'; The Contours of the Genre of 'Archaic Prayer'; Textual Motifs and Formulae; The Closing Formula; Prayer in Context and Performance; Transmission and Reception of 'Texts'; Prayer as Performance |
| Summary |
This ethnographic study of Gagauz religion offers an original perspective on 'folk religion' as discourse and object of study. It is also the first monograph published in a Western language on this little-known European people's history and culture |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Gagauz (Turkic people) -- Moldova -- Religion
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Folk religion -- Moldova
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Gagauz (Turkic people) -- Ukraine -- Odesa -- Religion
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Folk religion -- Ukraine -- Odesa
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- Orthodox.
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Folk religion
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Moldova -- Religious life and customs
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Odesa (Ukraine) -- Religious life and customs
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Moldova
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Ukraine -- Odesa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2011025496 |
| ISBN |
9789004216341 |
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9004216340 |
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