TY - BOOK ID - 7613113 TI - Peasants, pilgrims, and sacred promises : ritual and the supernatural in Orthodox Karelian folk religion PY - 2002 SN - 9522227668 9517465785 9517463669 9789522227669 9789517465786 9789517463669 PB - Helsinki : Finnish Literature Society / SKS, DB - UniCat KW - Orthodox Eastern Church KW - Karelia (Russia) KW - Religious life and customs. KW - Republic of Karelia (Russia) KW - Karelii︠a︡ (Russia) KW - Respublika Karelii︠a︡ (Russia) KW - Karjala (Russia) KW - Respublika Karelii︠a︡ Rossiĭskoĭ Federat︠s︡ii (Russia) KW - Karjalan Tasavalta (Russia) KW - Carelia (Russia) KW - Carélie (Russia) KW - Karelʹskai︠a︡ A.S.S.R. (R.S.F.S.R.) KW - Rites and ceremonies KW - Ceremonies KW - Cult KW - Cultus KW - Ecclesiastical rites and ceremonies KW - Religious ceremonies KW - Religious rites KW - Rites of passage KW - Traditions KW - Ritualism KW - Manners and customs KW - Mysteries, Religious KW - Ritual UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7613113 AB - Lying on the border between eastern and western Christendom, Orthodox Karelia preserved its unique religious culture into the 19th and 20th centuries, when it was described and recorded by Finnish and Karelian folklore collectors. This colorful array of ritulas and beliefs involving nature spirits, saints, the dead, and pilgrimage to monasteries represented a unigue fusion of official Church ritual and doctrine and pre-Christian ethnic folk belief. This book undertakes a fascinating exploration into many aspects of Orthodox Karelian ritual life: beliefs in supernatural forces, folk models of illness, body concepts, divination, holy icons, the role of the ritual specialist and healer, the divide between nature and culture, images of forest, the cult of the dead, and the popular image of monasteries and holy hermits. It will appeal to anyone interested in popular religion, the cognitive study of religion, ritual studies, medical anthropology, and the folk traditions and symbolism of the Balto-Finnic peoples. ER -