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Religion Culture Society The MTA-SZTE Research Group for the Study of Religious Cul- ture, a research group supported by the Hungarian Academy of Scienses and attached to the Department of Ethnology and Cul- st Religion tural Anthropology, University of Szeged began its activity on 1 July 2013. It sees itself as situated in the border zone of various disciplines dealing with social, historical and cultural aspects of re- ligions, the churches, present-day culture and society. It focuses on Culture ethnographical, anthropological, sociological, historical and spir- itual approaches to religious culture, also investigating the chang- ing social background, especially in the 19th–21st centuries. The research group operates in a historically Christian (Roman SOCIETY RELIGION, CULTURE, Society Catholic and Protestant) social and cultural environment with a strong interest in the Jewish and Muslim religious cultures. The multidisciplinarity, inter-religious and ecumenical perspective provides a stimulating environment for the research, making a distinctive contribution to both the local and the international aca- demic community. In cooperation with theological and religious studies, it strives to carry out its work with a sound historical basis in which theory and practice, empirical facts and their interpreta- tion, historicality and normativity are closely intertwined. RELIGION, CULTURE, SOCIETY RELIGION, CULTURE, SOCIETY Yearbook of the MTA-SZTE Research Group for the Study of Religious Culture Szeged, Hungary 1 RELIGION, CULTURE, SOCIETY Yearbook of the MTA-SZTE Research Group for the Study of Religious Culture Edited by Gábor Barna MTA-SZTEMTA-SZTE RESEARCHRESEARCH GROUP GROUP FOR THE STUDY FOR OF RELIGIOUSTHE STUDY CULTURE OF RELIGIOUS CULTURE Szeged, 2014 Published with the support of the MTA-SZTE Research Group for the Study of Religious Culture, the Hungarian National Research Fund (OTKA NK81502) and the Devotio Hungarorum Foundation (Szeged) International editorial board: Arne Bugge Amundsen (Oslo), Marion Bowman (London), Adam S. Ferziger (Ramat-Gan), Frank Korom (Boston), Leonard Norman Primiano (Radnor), Michael Prosser-Schell (Freiburg i.Br.), Vilmos Tánczos (Kolozsvár – Cluj-Napoca). Address of the editorial board: MTA-SZTE Research Group for the Study of Religious Culture Egyetem utca 2, H-6722 Szeged, Hungary ISSN 1416-7972 Printed in Hungary Innovariant Nyomdaipari Kft., Algyő General manager: György Drágán www.innovariant.hu https://www.facebook.com/Innovariant CONTENTS Foreword. Gábor Barna .................................................................................. 7 Frauhammer, Krisztina: An Unexplored Source Group of the Religious Life: the Prayerbooks ............................................................................................ 9 Gyöngyössy, Orsolya: Parliamentary Elections as “Holy War”? Priests Involved in Politics in a Small Town on the Great Plain in the Second Half of the 19th Century ........................................................................................................ 31 Barna, Gábor: The Living Rosary Society as Frame and Form of the Marian Devotion. The Feminization of the Marian Devotion – A Case Study .............................................................................................. 48 Fábián, Gabriella: On the Spread of the Living Rosary Confraternities in Transylvania ........................................................................................... 66 Kerekes, Ibolya: Contemplative Dominican Nuns in Szeged ........................................... 82 Povedák, István: The Monk and the White Shaman. Competitive Discourses and Conspiracy Theories around the Reinterpreted Cult of Blessed Eusebius ........................................................................................ 95 Povedák, Kinga: Religion, Music, Community. The Interferences of the Pentecostal Charismatic Renewal and the Catholic Charismatic Renewal .......... 114 Belhaj, Abdessamad – Speidl, Bianka: Marriage as Appropriation: Evidence from the Hungarian Muslim Community ............................................................................................... 129 Glässer, Nobert: The Holy Priest of Kálló. A Reform Jewish Integration Narrative in Interwar Hungary................................................................................ 155 Contributors ................................................................................................... 175 Foreword On 1st July 2013, the MTA-SZTE Research Group for the Study of Religious Cul- ture, attached to the Szeged Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropolo- gy, began its activity. It came into being as a result of the cooperation between the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, who financially supports the Research Group, and the Faculty of Arts at Szeged University. This Research Group has deep roots in Szeged University, reaching back to the work and scientific legacy of Sándor Bálint (1904-1980), Professor of the Department (1947-1966), who remains the foremost scholar of ethnology of religion in Hungary. Building on his academic achievements, research on religious culture has strengthened in recent decades at the Department of Ethnology in Szeged. This department has become one of the outstanding European research centres of ethnology of religion. The activity of the MTA-SZTE continues this thorough tradition of many decades. The MTA-SZTE Research Group for the Study of Religious Culture is multidis- ciplinary; it acknowledges the complexity of religions in our present times, whether they are examined as systems of beliefs, organisations or actions. Accordingly, its research methods and ramifications involve various disciplines, including ethno- graphy, anthropology, sociology, history and Islamic studies. All research projects of the MTA-SZTE Research Group aim to study the transformations of religious cultures in light of their historical, cultural and social settings. A special focus is laid on social transformations of religions in the 19th-21st centuries. For this reason, the research group launches its yearbook under the title of Religion, Culture, Society. The research group reaches other sectors of the society. Although it operates in a historically Christian (Roman Catholic and Protestant) social and cultural en- vironment, it shows genuine interest in the Jewish and Muslim religious cultures and an outlook towards other religions and/or religious movements, including the so-called neopagan movements that have strengthened in recent decades in both Hungary and other European countries. The inter-religious and the ecumen- ical perspectives provide a stimulating environment for the research, making a distinctive contribution to both the local and the international academic commu- nity. In cooperation with theological and religious studies, it strives to carry out its work with a sound historical basis in which theory and practice, empirical facts and their interpretation, historicality and normativity are closely intertwined. The associates of the research group are experienced in the exploration of his- torical sources, in fieldwork and in international scholarly life. They benefit from the strong and motivating research culture of the Szeged school of ethnology. The academic research group presents its findings at conferences in Hunga- ry and abroad, in its own publications (Books on Research of Religious Culture series), and in its English-language yearbook Religion, Culture, Society launched with this edition. The first volume of the yearbook contains case studies from recent research. Gábor Barna editor 7 Krisztina Frauhammer AN UNEXPLORED SOURCE GROUP OF THE RELIGIOUS LIFE: THE PRAYERBOOKS Abstract: The paper presents the first findings of the study of a previously com- pletely unexplored source group, prayerbooks. Although famous individuals and the authors of prayerbooks have written on the subject, there are hardly any syntheses or scholarly works on prayerbooks. This is especially true regarding the prayerbooks published after the Baroque period. We have been collecting for years and building up a digital database on prayerbooks with the aim of filling this gap. In the present article the author sets out the need to explore this genre, the benefits such a study will bring, the development of prayerbooks after 1800 and the major trends in the publication of prayerbooks. Keywords: prayerbook, 19th century, spirituality, database In this study I present the first findings of the investigation of a previously unexplored research group: prayerbooks.1 My attention was drawn to these books years ago when I completed a research project analysing contemporary prayer texts. In the course of that research I had analysed prayers written spontaneously, without any restrictions, by individual visitors to shrines. It occurred to me that it could be interesting to make an investigation in the opposite direction, examining the kind of prayer texts the church offers those wishing to pray.2 This question led me to the prayerbooks and the realisation that no one had ever made a compre- hensive study of them. Database of Hungarian prayerbooks published after 1800 For the reasons mentioned here I began to take stock of these prayerbooks, catalogue them and find a way to make this vast corpus of sources searchable. It seemed to me that these needs could best be met from an open access data- base on the internet. After several years of collecting work, data collection and preparations, this database was launched in July
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