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Politics Folk SZTE Egyetemi Könyvtár V Egyetemi Gyűjtemény HELYBEN of the volume is Politics and Folk Religion. Case studies, presented at first at ~0 flrVASMVTi' Edited by i..c drd Symposium of the SIEF Commission of Folk Religion, Szeged, 24—26 September О 1999, Hungary, are dealing without any limitation of boundaries in age and space on the QÁBOR relation between politics and religion. There is not only the question of today fundament H w ;ik talism, but more theoretically the problem of changable and continuous relation between BARNA the two fields. Is it a stable characteristic of contact between the two fields, a constant LAn effort of politics to use religion as ideology, or an effort of religion to get political power > through its institutions? Has politics really emerged and filled a part in popular religion, or has it always been only the problem of the élite? How do religious movements arise for Z f— political goals? And how do political movements and institutions use religious or quasi- О religious symbols? How does this problem exist or occur in everyday life, in smaller local Tl communities? О n Religion and politics, their role: coexistence or conflicts in society in the everyday life of communities and individuals give the contents of this thematic volume. 7\ 73 m Contributors: Arne Buggc Amundsen, Gábor Вата, Marion Bowman, Ambalike Hiriyanna, О Frank J. Korom, Imola Küllős, Katarina Lewis, Agita Mi sane, Sasa Nedeljkovic, Jaanus О Plaal, Leonard Norman Primiano, Anne Rowbottom. Irina Sedakova, Torunn Selberg. z The editor, Gábor Ваша, is Ass. Prof, of Folkloristics and Religious Ethnology, Depart- ment of Ethnology, University of Szeged, head of the SIEF Commission of Folk Religion, co-ordinator of the Internationale Ethnokartographische Arbeitsgruppe (IEA), editor of the journal Acta Ethnographica Hungarica, the series Devotio Hungarorum and Bibliotheca Religionis Populáris Szegediensis. 00 POLITICS Ю (0 AND SZEQEDI VALLÁSI NÉPRAJZI KÖNYVTÁR BIBLIOTHECA RELIQIONIS POPULÁRIS SZEQEDIENSIS CD FOLK RELIGION -О О ч о > Z и "П о 7ч 7Э гп о о Z SZEGEDI VALLÁSI NÉPRAJZI KÖNYVTÁR BIBLIOTHECA RELIGIONIS POPULÁRIS SZEGEDIENSIS 6 REDIGIT: GÁBOR BARNA i SZTE Egyetemi Könyvtár I Z Egyetemi Gyűjtemény HELYBEN 1 1 'OLVASHATÓ POLITICS AND FOLK RELIQION Edited by QÁBOR BARNA DEPARTMENT OF ETHNOLOQY UNIVERSITY OF SZEQED 2001 Papers of the 3rd Symposium of SIEF Commission of Folk Religion Szeged, 24-26 September 1999 Editorial office: Department of Ethnology, University of Szeged Egyetem u. 2, H-6722 Szeged, Hungary Phone/Fax: (+36) 62 544 216 E-mail: [email protected] Internet: http://www.arts.u-szeged.hu/ethnologv/ The conference was sponsored by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of National Cultural Heritage, the City Council of Szeged, the Foundation pro Szeged, the József Attila University, the Centre of European Studies/Phare Programme, the Hunguest Hotel Forrás and the Devotio Hungarorum Foundation Published with the support of the research project No. T 026494 OTKA (National Scientific Research Fund), the Foundation for the Culture of Szeged and the Devotio Hungarorum Foundation Cover: Nincs hatalmad (You don’t have any power) Painting of István Demeter Roman Catholic Collection, Sárospatak, Hungary (Photo: László Haris) Cover design: Gábor Barna Reprinted from Acta Ethnographica Hungarica, Vol. 46 (2001) 1-2 B174658 ISBN 963 482 400 5 ISSN 1218-7003 evemj © Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest 2001 All rights reserved Printed in Hungary by Akadémiai Nyomda, Martonvásár SZTE Egyetemi Könyvtár I! i| llllll J000205104 Contents POLITICS AND FOLK RELIGION Gábor Barna : Politics and Folk Religion (Foreword)..................................... 3 Anders GUSTAVSSON: Introduction................................................................. 5 \Gábor Barna : Politics and Folk Religion: Concepts and Problems................. 9 Arne Bugge AMUNDSEN: Strategies for Rechristianization. Political Rhetoric of the Norwegian Home Mission in the 1920s ........................................... 23 V" Marion Bowman : The People’s Princess: Vernacular Religion and Politics in the Mourning for Diana............................................................................ 35 Leonard Norman Primian O: What is Vernacular Catholicism? The “Dignity” Example .................................................................................................... 51 X Katarina Lewi s : “Obeying God Rather Than Man” (Acts 5:29): Christian Faith in Confrontation with Political Correctness in Sweden .................... 59 Torunn SELBERG: Ideas about the Past and Tradition in the Discourse about Neo-Shamanism in a Norwegian Context................................................... 65 Y Agita MisÄNE: Inter-War Right-Wing Movements in the Baltic States and Their Religious Affiliation......................................................................... 75 ч/Sasa Nedeukovi C: The Correlation between Religious Identity and National Identity - the Participants of Student Protest in Belgrade 1996/97 ............ 89 Ambalike Hiri yanna : Folk Religion-Political Undercurrents. (With Refer- ence to India) ............................................................................................ 99 Frank J. KOROM: Liminality and Communitas Reconsidered: the Politics of Caste and Ritual in Goalpara, West Bengal .............................................. 105 Irina Sedakova : Politics and Folk Religion in the Period of Transition ......... 131 Anne ROWBOTTOM: Subject Positions: Monarchy, Civil Religion and Folk Re- ligion in Britain.......................................................................................... 137 Imola KÜLLŐS: “We Were Led by the Lord in a Special Way...” Visions, Expli- cations and Reality in a Twentieth Century Calvinist Congregation.......... 153 Jaanus Plaat : Religious Movements and Congregations in West Estonia from the Mid-18th to the Beginning of the 20th Century: their Influence on the Estonian and Estonian-Swedish Popular Culture....................................... 161 POLITICS AND FOLK RELIGION (FOREWORD) 3rd SYMPOSIUM OF THE SIEF COMMISSION OF FOLK RELIGION 24th-26th SEPTEMBER 1999 After two successful meetings of SIEF Commission of Folk Religion in Stock- holm (Sweden, 1993) and Chaves (Portugal, 1996) the 3rd Symposium is invited and organized by the Department of Ethnology, University of Szeged. Politics and folk religion. The question is once again very timely. The Kosovo crisis, Northern Ireland, Dagestan, and I could go on listing all the tensions which appear in our world as religious conflicts. I hope that the papers1 presented (and published) here will help to give us a better understanding of these processes and that at the end of the conference we will be able to say that we have learnt a great deal, and can offer our analyses for politicians who are able to make the world a more peaceful place. This conference is an important event, not only for the Department of Ethnol- ogy, University of Szeged and the City of Szeged, but for the whole of Hungarian ethnology. This can be seen in the fact that it has been supported by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, the Municipality of Szeged, the University and the Centre of European Studies/ Phare Programme. Popular religion, folk religion or vernacular religion is our Department’s special field of teaching and research. Sándor Bálint, the founder of “religiöse Volkskunde” or “Volksfrömmigkeitsforschung” in Hungary, was Professor of our Department between 1947-1964. We wish to carry on his intellectual legacy. Our current and planned research in Hungary, the Carpathian Basin, and elsewhere in Europe, our publications, regular Hungarian and international conferences, international rela- tions and international student seminars all serve this aim. The present conference is also part of these efforts. We have attempted to create an appropriate atmosphere with an exhibiton of photography of Magdolna Szabó and Imre Küllős in the conference hall, illustrating the conference’ topic with pictures on destroyed Hungarian churches in the Yugo- slavian war from Croatia and attractive phenomena of religious culture and popular religion. Gábor Barna 1 Unfortunately there are two papers missing from the volume - Margaret MACKAY (Edinburgh): "How Shall We Sing the Lord’s Song in a New Land?” and Mare KÖIVA (Tartu): People Waiting for the "White Ship" - Symbol and Practice. The paper of Bertalan PUSZTAI: Religion as a Support in Creating Identity has been published already elsewhere, the one of Jaanus PLAAT: Religious Movements and Congregations in West Esto- nia... was not presented at the conference. INTRODUCTION Anders Gustavsson Department of Cultural Studies, University of Oslo P. A. Munchs House, P.O. Box 1010 Blindem, N-0315 Oslo, Norway Abstract: People’s beliefs, whether they fall within the teachings of the church or not, belong to the folk religion. The studies of folk religion comprise all social classes, peasant culture and middle class as well as workers. Investigations of folk religion do not only focus on the pre-industrial era, but also on religiously oriented beliefs and customs among people in the secularised modern society. In our days it is important to examine how the many immigrants and their churches adjust to completely new conditions, for example in the way of dressing and concerning food prohibitions. One field of research which is suited for international
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