Routledge | Living Folk Religions (2023 EN)

Author: Sravana Borkataky-Varma (Editor), Aaron Michael Ullrey (Editor)
Full Title: Living Folk Religions
Publisher: Routledge; 1st edition (May 30, 2023)
Series: -
Year: 2023
ISBN-13: 9781003257462 (978-1-003-25746-2), 9781032190402 (978-1-032-19040-2), 9781032190419 (978-1-032-19041-9)
ISBN-10: 1003257461, 103219040X, 1032190418
Pages: 364
Language: English
Genre: Religious Studies
File type: EPUB (True), PDF (True)
Quality: 10/10
Price: £120.00


Living Folk Religions presents cutting-edge contributions from a range of disciplines to examine religious folkways across cultures. This collection embraces the non-elite and non-sanctioned, the oral, fluid, accessible, evolving religions 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, unidentified flying objects (UFOs), music and sound experiences, death rituals, and body and wellness cultures.


Readership:
This book is a must-read for those studying Comparative Religions, World Religions, and Religious Studies, and it will also interest specialists and general readers, particularly enthusiastic readers of Anthropology, Folklore and Folk Studies, Global Studies, and Sociology.

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