Text, context, and performance : Gagauz folk religion in discourse and practice /

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 th...

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Main Author: Kapaló, James Alexander.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

Series: Numen Book Series 135.
Numen Book Series Online, ISBN: 9789004380837.

Subjects:

Folk religion > Moldova.

Folk religion > Ukraine > Odesa.

Gagauz (Turkic people) > Moldova > Religion.

Gagauz (Turkic people) > Ukraine > Odesa > Religion.