The Graveyard and the Table The Catholic-Orthodox Borderland in Poland and Belarus

• Hoofdauteur: Straczuk, Justyna (auth)
• Formaat: Elektronisch Hoofdstuk
• Taal: Engels
• Gepubliceerd in: Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 2021
• Reeks: Polish Studies - Transdisciplinary Perspectives 38
• Onderwerpen: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Belarus; Borderland; borderline; Catholic; death rituals; ethnic identity; folk religiousness; food practices; Graveyard; Orthodox; peasant culture; Poland; religious diversity; Straczuk; Table
• Online toegang: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Samenvatting

The book is based on long-term ethnographic research in the Polish-Belarusian borderland. It examines the dynamics of symbolic boundaries between the Catholic and Orthodox believers in their everyday lives. By analyzing the space of local cemeteries, rituals, and attitudes related to death, eating practices, and food sharing, the author points to the changing sense of ethnic identity and the feeling of familiarity and otherness. Confessionally mixed neighborhoods and families enable different forms of religious bivalency and become a crucial factor in bridging and crossing ethnic boundaries. Socio-cultural norms and social relations shape the ethnic identity of the borderland's residents more than the institutional frames of both churches.

Fysieke beschrijving

1 electronic resource (252 p.)

ISBN

b19019
9783631866948
9783631866955
9783631866962
9783631854525

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Open Access