Marian Devotion Among the Roma in Slovakia: A Post-Modern Religious Response to Marginality

ISBN-13: 9783030563639 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 166 str.

Tatiana Zachar Podolinská

Spis treści

Contents  

Chapter 1

Traces of the Virgin Mary in the Modern World

 

Chapter 2

Romani Christianity in Slovakia—Religiosity of Those on the Periphery

 

Chapter 3

Marian Devotion among the Roma in Slovakia—Ethnicised and Enculturated Mary

 

Chapter 4

Marian Apparitions among the Roma—From the Periphery to the Centre

 

O autorze

Tatiana Zachar Podolinská directs the Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology at the Slovak Academy of Sciences, and is Visiting Professor in the Department of Comparative Studies of Religions at Comenius University, Slovakia.

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Blurb

In this book Tatiana Zachar Podolinská explores how post-modern Marian devotion represents both the continuation and restoration of tradition in the modern world. Podolinská illuminates how Mary as a Great Enchantress has colonised the modern world and survived mandatory atheism in communist countries. The resilience of Marian devotion in the face of the secularising forces of modernity is due to how fluidly it mixes pre-modern and ultra-modern elements of beliefs and practices with the grassroot current of post-modern Christianity. At the same time, Podolinská elucidates how Mary has become the voice of peripheral ethnic groups and nations. This book specifically explains the devotion of the post-modern Mary among the Roma in Slovakia and explores how this community copes with marginalisation, creating islands of marginal centrality. By approaching the ethnicised and enculturated forms of the Virgin Mary (i.e. Chocolate Marys), the book illuminates her potential for helping the Slovak Roma on their own path from the periphery to the center.