Text, Context and Performance: Gagauz Folk Religion in Discourse and Practice (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004197992)

Vendor: James A. Kapaló
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Format: Hardcover
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Text, Context and Performance: Gagauz Folk Religion in Discourse and Practice

$222.00

Text, Context and Performance: Gagauz Folk Religion in Discourse and Practice

$222.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: James A. Kapaló
ISBN-10: 9004197990
ISBN-13: 9789004197992
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 09/20/2011
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.60w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 12/01/2011 pg. 14
By James A. Kapaló
By James A. Kapaló
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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.

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