ENGLISH

Living Folk Religions

By Sravana Borkataky-Varma (editor); Aaron Michael Ullrey (editor)

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2023
ISBN
9781003257462, 9781032190402, 9781032190419
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
18 MB (18966151 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
364\365
Time added
2023-07-12 03:47:03

Description

Living Folk Religions presents cutting-edge contributions from a range of disciplines to examine religious folkways across cultures. This collection embraces the non-elite and non-sanctioned, the oral, fluid, accessible, evolving religions of people (volk) on the ground. Split into five sections, this book covers: What Is Folk Religion? Spirit Beings and Deities Performance and Ritual Praxis Possession and Exorcism Health, Healing, and Lifestyle Topics include demons and ambivalent gods, tree and nature spirits, revolutionary renunciates, oral lore, possession and exorcism, divination, midwestern American spiritualism, festivals, queer sexuality among ritual specialists, the dead returned, vernacular religions, diaspora adaptations, esoteric influences underlying public cultures, unidentified flying objects (UFOs), music and sound experiences, death rituals, and body and wellness cultures. Living Folk Religions is a must-read for those studying Comparative Religions, World Religions, and Religious Studies, and it will also interest specialists and general readers, particularly enthusiastic readers of Anthropology, Folklore and Folk Studies, Global Studies, and Sociology. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of contributors Introduction: Three Little Words PART I: What Is Folk Religion? 1 Interrogating the Folk-Classical Divide in the Study of Indic Religions through a Local Bengali Ritual Performance 2 The Sādhū Who Came for Lunch: Revising Tropes of Disconnection in the Jain Diaspora 3 What Makes Folk Buddhism? 4 Why a Folk Religion May Not Exist among Followers of an Abrahamic Faith: The Case of Sunni Egypt PART II: Spirit Beings and Deities 5 Goddess Trees in the Forest of Bliss: Local Place and Translocal Space in a City of Pilgrims 6 Bhairava, Hanumān, and the Deified Dead: A Material Study of Vernacular, Official, and Folk Registers of Living Hinduism in Vārāṇasī, North India 7 There Is Something in Me: Narratives of LGBTIQ+ Sangomas (Traditional Healers) in South Africa PART III: Performance and/or Ritual Praxis 8 Sufi Festivals in Contemporary Morocco: Authorizing and Performing Folk Religiosities 9 Mantras for “Every God and Goddess”: Vernacular Religious Ritual in the Literature of Sabhapati Swami 10 Observing Buddhist Precepts by Divination: Practices According to Zhanchajing 11 Spellbinding Skalds: Music as Ritual in Nordic Neopaganism 12 Cremating the Body Politic: Mapping the Materiality of the Indo-Caribbean Mortuary Ritual Corpus PART IV: Possession and Exorcism 13 Talking to the Other Side: Spiritualism as “Vernacular Religion” in Central Ohio 14 Becoming a God: Spirit Possession Practices at a South Indian Temple 15 Post-Christianity and Esotericism: A Study of a Satanic Exorcist 16 Controlling the Lore: A Survey of UFO Folklore in the United States PART V: Health, Healing, and Lifestyle 17 Indigenous Revitalization, Rock Music, and the Holy Spirit: The Religious Logic of Healing at Lake Junaluska 18 The Triple Goddess: Examining Maiden, Mother, Crone in Wiccan-Witchcraft Traditions 19 Lifestyle Brands That Rock Your Soul: Wellness Culture as Folk Religion in North America Index

Similar books

Session C11: Ancient Cultural Landscapes in South Europe – their Ecological Setting and Evolution, Session C22: Gardeners from South America, Session S04: Agro-Pastoralism and Early Metallurgy Sessions, Session WS29: The Idea of Enclosure in Recent Iberian Prehistory, Session C88: Rhytmes et causalites des dynamiques de l'anthropisation en Europe entre 6500 ET 500 BC: Hypotheses socio-culturelles et/ou climatiques: Proceedings of the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon 4-9 September 2006) / Actes du XV Congrès Mondial (Lisbonne 4-9 Septembre 2006) Vol.36

2010 · PDF

THE BRITISH ARMY IN INDIA: ITS PRESERVATION BY AN APPROPRIATE CLOTHING, HOUSING, LOCATING, RECREATIVE EMPLOYMENT, AND HOPEFUL ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE TROOPS. with AN APPENDIX ON INDIA : THE CLIMATE OP ITS HILLS ; THE DEVELOPMENT OF ITS RESODRCBS, INDUSTRY, AND ARTS ; THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE ; THE BLACK ACT ; THE PROGRESS OF CHRISTIANITY ; THE TRAFFIC IN OPIUM ; THE VALUE OF INDIA ; PERMANENT CAUSES OF DISAFFECTION, AND OF THE RECENT REBELLION ; THE TRADITIONARY POLICY; MISGOVERNMENT BY NATIVE RULERS ; ANNEXATIONS OF THEIR TERRITORY, ETC.

1858 · PDF

Idries Shah 27 Books Collection : A Perfumed Scorpion, A Veiled Gazelle, Caravan of Dreams, Darkest England, Destination Mecca, Evenings with Idries Shah, Knowing How to Know, Learning How to Learn, Letters and Lectures of Idries Shah, Neglected aspects of Sufi study, Observations, Oriental Magic, Reflections, Seeker after Truth, Special Illumination, Special Problems in the study of Sufi ideas, Sufi thought and action, Tales of the Dervishes, The Dermis Probe, The Elephant in the Dark, The Englishman Handbook, Idries Shah Antology, The Magic Monastery, The natives are restless, wisdom of the Idiots PDF.

2022 · PDF

The travels of Capts. Lewis and Clarke from St. Louis, by way of the Missouri and Columbia rivers, to the Pacific ocean; performed in the years 1804, 1805 & 1806, by order of the government of the United States. Containing delineations of the manners, customs, religion, &c. of the Indians, comp. from various authentic sources, and original documents, and a summary of the Statistical view of the Indian nations, from the official communication of Meriwether Lewis. Illustrated with a map of the country, inhabited by the western tribes of Indians

1809 · PDF

Professional Linux kernel architecture ''Wrox programmer to programmer''--Cover. - ''What you are reading right now is the result of an evolution over more than seven years: After two years of writing, the first edition was published in German by Carl Hanser Verlag in 2003. It then described kernel 2.6.0. The test was used as a basis for the low-level design documentation for the EAL4+ security evaluation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, requiring to update it to kernel 2.6.18 (if the EAL acronym does not mean anything to you, then Wikipedia is once more your friend). Hewlett-Packard sponsored the translation into English and has, thankfully, granted the rights to publish the result. Updates to kernel 2.6.24 were then performed specifically for this book''--P. ix

2008 · PDF