Living folk religions / edited by Sravana Borkataky-Varma and Aaron Michael Ullrey.

Other author Borkataky-Varma, Sravana editor.
Other author Ullrey, A. Michael, editor.
Format Book
PublicationAbingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.
Copyright Date©2023
Descriptionxi, 351 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm
Subjects

Contents Part I: What is folk religion. Interrogating the folk-classical divide in the study of Indic religions through a local Bengali ritual performance / Frank J. Korom -- The Sādhū who came for lunch : revising tropes of disconnection in the Jain diaspora / Tine Vekemans -- What makes folk Buddhism? / Tine Vekemans -- Why a folk religion may not exist among followers of an Abrahamic faith : the case of Sunni Egypt / Hasan El-Shamy -- Part II: Spirit beings and deities. Goddess Trees in the Forest of bliss : local place and translocal space in a city of pilgrims / David Gordon White -- Bhairava, Hanumān, and the deified dead : a material study of vernacular, official, and folk registers of living Hinduism in Vārāṇasī, North India / Seth Ligo -- There is something in me : narratives of LGBTIQ+ Sangomas (traditional healers) in South Africa / Rachel Schneider -- Part III: Performance and/or ritual praxis. Sufi festivals in contemporary Morocco : authorizing and performing folk religiosities / John C. Thibdeau -- Mantras for "Every God and goddess": vernacular religious ritual in the literature of Sabhapati Swami / Keith Edward Cantú -- Observing Buddhist precepts by divination : practices according to Zhanchajing / dr Xingyi Wang -- Spellbinding skalds : music as ritual in Nordic Neopaganism / Padraic Fitzgerald, Mathias Nordvig -- Cremating the body politic : mapping the materiality of the Indo-Caribbean mortuary ritual corpus / Keith E. McNeal -- Part IV: Possession and exorcism. Talking to the other side : spiritualism as "vernacular religion" in Central Ohio / Hugh B. Urban -- Becoming a God : spirit possession practices at a South Indian temple / Julie Edelstein -- Post-Christianity and esotericism : a study of a satanic exorcist / William Chavez -- Controlling the lore : a survey of UFO folklore in the United States / Diana Walsh Pasulka -- Part V: Health, healing and lifestyle. Indigenous revitalization, rock music, and the Holy Spirit : the religious logic of healing at Lake Junaluska / Jason E. Purvis -- The triple goddess : examining maiden, mother, Crone in Wiccan-Witchcraft traditions / Jason Mankey -- Lifestyle brands that rock your soul : wellness culture as folk religion in North America / Anya Foxen.
Abstract "Living Folk Religions presents cutting-edge contributions from a range of disciplines to examine folk religions across cultures. This collection embraces the non-elite and non-sanctioned, the oral, fluid, accessible, evolving religion 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, 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 interest specialists and general readers, particularly enthusiastic readers of Anthropology, Folklore and Folk Studies, Global Studies, and Sociology"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Living folk religions Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023. 9781000878622
LCCN 2022056501
ISBN9781032190419
ISBN9781032190402 hardcover
ISBN103219040X hardcover
ISBN1032190418 paperback
ISBNelectronic book
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