The Folk Bible of Central-Eastern Europe
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The Folk Bible of Central-Eastern Europe

  1. 456 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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The Folk Bible of Central-Eastern Europe

About this book

This is the first Polish ethnological monograph to present how biblical themes function in folk culture in the context of rituals, customs and iconographic records and is based on ethnographic sources collected in Polish rural communities from central Poland to diasporas in Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine in 1989–96. It shows how biblical plots used to undergo interpretation, at the same time, infiltrating common sense knowledge. The novelty here is the joint analysis of themes from both Testaments, presenting the narrations in accordance to the way the local community perceived its identity. The biblical typology, influencing culture through tradition and liturgy, inspired a symbolic order adjusted to cyclic conceptions of time and space, characteristic of rural culture

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. The Folk Bible of Central-Eastern Europe: A Border Phenomenon
  5. Part I: The Interpretation of Biblical Themes in Rural Culture
  6. Part II: God and the “Worlds”. The Dramatis Personnae, Time and Space
  7. Part III: Genealogies of Aliens and Wizards. Curses or Graces
  8. Part IV: One’s Own Heritage
  9. List of Figures
  10. Bibliography
  11. Index of Names and Characters