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

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.
Moldova > Religious life and customs.
Odesa (Ukraine) > Religious life and customs.

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Call Number: BR737.G34 K37 2011

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
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  • Introduction /
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  • Chapter One Folk Religion in Discourse and Practice /
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  • Chapter Two Historical Narrative and the Discourse on Origins /
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  • Chapter Three Liturgy, Language and the Vernacularisation of Orthodoxy /
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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 ' /
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  • Chapter Five Healing and Divine Authority Düştän Allahın lafı sana geldi! - 'The words of God have come to you in a dream' /
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  • Chapter Six Healing, Text and Performance Allahın lafçaazınnan okuyêêrım - 'I heal with the little words of God' /
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  • Chapter Seven Prayer as Social and Cosmological Performance Durmaksız dua ediniz. Herşeydä şükür ediniz - 'Pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances . . .' /
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  • 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' /
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  • Conclusion /
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  • Appendix One Gagauz Epistoliyas /
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  • Appendix Two Gagauz Okumak and Exorcism Texts /
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  • Appendix Three Archaic Prayers in the Gagauz Idiom /
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  • Bibliography /
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  • Index /
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