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Text, context and performance : Gagauz folk religion in discourse and practice / by James Alexander Kapaló.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in the history of religions ; 135.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, [3], 352 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
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  • 9789004216341
  • 9004216340
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 281.9089/9436 23
LOC classification:
  • BR737.G34 K37 2011eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Note on Transliteration, Names and Toponyms; Acknowledgements; Glossary of Frequently Used Terms and Abbreviations in Gagauz and Russian; List of Illustrations; List of Maps; Introduction; Chapter One Folk Religion in Discourse and Practice; The Discourse on Folk Religion in the Context of Eastern and Central Europe; The Language and Practice of Folk Religion; On Method and Methodology; Human and Superhuman Agency in Language; Text, Context, Performance; Chapter Two Historical Narrative and the Discourse on Origins; Migration and Dislocation.
The Discourse on Origins, Ethnogenesis and RaceHistorical Narratives and Discourses in the Construction of Gagauz National Consciousness; Nationhood and Religion in the Post-Çakir Years; The Contested Nature of Gagauz Identity in the Post-Soviet Era; Conclusion; Chapter Three Liturgy, Language and the Vernacularisation of Orthodoxy; The Liturgy: Observing the Orthodox Faith; The Three Languages of Gagauz Orthodoxy; Gagauz Language, Liturgy and Scripture in the Post-Soviet Era; Conclusion.
Chapter Four Language, Lay Agency and the 'Surrogate' Text Bu epistolii yazdı kendi Allah -- 'This letter was written by God himself 'Russian, Moldovan and Gagauz Apocalypticism; Epistoliyas and Apocalyptic Texts in the Gagauz Language; Translations, Translators and Tetratkas; Epistoliyas in Folk Religious Practice; Conclusion; Chapter Five Healing and Divine Authority Düştän Allahın lafı sana geldi! -- 'The words of God have come to you in a dream'; The Traditional Healing System; The İlaççılar; Conclusion.
Chapter Six Healing, Text and Performance Allahın lafçaazınnan okuyêêrım -- 'I heal with the little words of God'The 'Texts' of Gagauz Healing Practices; The Simple Charm; 'Epic' or Narrative Charms; Ratification Formulas; Ritual Actions, Implements and Substances; Reality, Metaphor, Belief; The Orthodox Church on Healing and Magic; Gagauz Healing Texts from the Tetratkas; Agency and the Relational Character of Religious Authority; Conclusion; Chapter Seven Prayer as Social and Cosmological Performance Durmaksız dua ediniz. Herşeydä şükür ediniz -- 'Pray continually.
Give thanks in all circumstances . . .'Prayer, Tradition and Agency; Canonical Prayer in Performance; Toast-Prayer and the Social Performance of Cosmological Reality; Prayer, Divine Agents and the 'Magico-Religious'; Conclusion; 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'; The Contours of the Genre of 'Archaic Prayer'; Textual Motifs and Formulae; The Closing Formula; Prayer in Context and Performance; Transmission and Reception of 'Texts'; Prayer as Performance.
Summary: This ethnographic study of Gagauz religion offers an original perspective on 'folk religion' as discourse and object of study. It is also the first monograph published in a Western language on this little-known European people's history and culture.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Note on Transliteration, Names and Toponyms; Acknowledgements; Glossary of Frequently Used Terms and Abbreviations in Gagauz and Russian; List of Illustrations; List of Maps; Introduction; Chapter One Folk Religion in Discourse and Practice; The Discourse on Folk Religion in the Context of Eastern and Central Europe; The Language and Practice of Folk Religion; On Method and Methodology; Human and Superhuman Agency in Language; Text, Context, Performance; Chapter Two Historical Narrative and the Discourse on Origins; Migration and Dislocation.

The Discourse on Origins, Ethnogenesis and RaceHistorical Narratives and Discourses in the Construction of Gagauz National Consciousness; Nationhood and Religion in the Post-Çakir Years; The Contested Nature of Gagauz Identity in the Post-Soviet Era; Conclusion; Chapter Three Liturgy, Language and the Vernacularisation of Orthodoxy; The Liturgy: Observing the Orthodox Faith; The Three Languages of Gagauz Orthodoxy; Gagauz Language, Liturgy and Scripture in the Post-Soviet Era; Conclusion.

Chapter Four Language, Lay Agency and the 'Surrogate' Text Bu epistolii yazdı kendi Allah -- 'This letter was written by God himself 'Russian, Moldovan and Gagauz Apocalypticism; Epistoliyas and Apocalyptic Texts in the Gagauz Language; Translations, Translators and Tetratkas; Epistoliyas in Folk Religious Practice; Conclusion; Chapter Five Healing and Divine Authority Düştän Allahın lafı sana geldi! -- 'The words of God have come to you in a dream'; The Traditional Healing System; The İlaççılar; Conclusion.

Chapter Six Healing, Text and Performance Allahın lafçaazınnan okuyêêrım -- 'I heal with the little words of God'The 'Texts' of Gagauz Healing Practices; The Simple Charm; 'Epic' or Narrative Charms; Ratification Formulas; Ritual Actions, Implements and Substances; Reality, Metaphor, Belief; The Orthodox Church on Healing and Magic; Gagauz Healing Texts from the Tetratkas; Agency and the Relational Character of Religious Authority; Conclusion; Chapter Seven Prayer as Social and Cosmological Performance Durmaksız dua ediniz. Herşeydä şükür ediniz -- 'Pray continually.

Give thanks in all circumstances . . .'Prayer, Tradition and Agency; Canonical Prayer in Performance; Toast-Prayer and the Social Performance of Cosmological Reality; Prayer, Divine Agents and the 'Magico-Religious'; Conclusion; 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'; The Contours of the Genre of 'Archaic Prayer'; Textual Motifs and Formulae; The Closing Formula; Prayer in Context and Performance; Transmission and Reception of 'Texts'; Prayer as Performance.

This ethnographic study of Gagauz religion offers an original perspective on 'folk religion' as discourse and object of study. It is also the first monograph published in a Western language on this little-known European people's history and culture.