Religious Orthodoxy and Popular Faith in European Society

By examining the ongoing tension between popular and official religion in Europe, this collection of essays contributes significantly to the continuing effort to understand the religious experience of ordinary people. Ranging from the Mediterranean to northern Europe and including both Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions, the ethnographic contexts evoked in these essays enable us to see people actively and creatively shaping their religious domain, sometimes in collaboration with official ritual specialists, often in open rebellion against them. The use of folklore texts and extensive narrative quotations, combined with an approach highlighting key symbols such as pilgrimages and festas, provides a common theoretical orientation throughout the book--one that considers how religious discourses are formed by social disciplines and relationships of power and subordination.

ISBN 0691028508   DEWEY edition DC20 ISBN13 9780691028507 (What's this?)   Pages 240 Publisher Princeton University Press   Volumes 1 Imprint Princeton University Press   Weight (grammes) 358 Format Paperback   Published in New Jersey Publication date 23 Jan 1990   Height (mm) 229 Writer of introduction Badone, Ellen   Width (mm) 152 Library of Congress 89035353   Spine width (mm) 13 DEWEY 291.446   Academic level Professional / Scholarly, Tertiary education

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