Isbn: 9789004197992 - text, context and performance: gagauz folk religion in discourse and practice (numen book, band 135) (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 372 pages : 24 cm. 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.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 372 pages : 24 cm. 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. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Gr.-8°, Org.-Pappb. Zustand: Sehr gut. XIV, 352 S. : Mit Abb. und Karten; Frisch und sauber. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1050.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorJames A. Kapalo, 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.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 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.…