Project

Saints Becoming Magicians. Orthodox Saints in East Slavic Popular Magic

Code
3G004608
Duration
01 January 2008 → 30 December 2013
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Humanities
    • Language studies
    • Linguistics
    • Literary studies
    • Theology and religious studies
  • Social sciences
    • Anthropology
Keywords
saints popular magic cognitive definition Slavs anthropological linguistics ethnolinguistics
 
Project description

The project's aims is to give a description and analysis of the image and functions of saints in the popular magic of the Orthodox East Slavs. On the diachronic level, the project aims at displaying the real mutual relationships between the factors which have shaped the cult of saints. The material will be described according to a formally elaborated scheme, the so called 'cognitive definition'.