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Author Podolinska, Tatiana Zachar, author

Title Marian devotion among the Roma in Slovakia : a post-modern religious response to marginality / Tatiana Zachar Podolinská
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 166 pages)
Series Palgrave pivot
Palgrave pivot
Contents Traces of the Virgin Mary in the Modern World -- Romani Christianity in Slovakia: Religiosity of Those on the Periphery -- Marian Devotion Among the Roma in Slovakia: Ethnicised and Enculturated Mary -- Marian Apparitions Among the Roma: From the Periphery to the Centre
Summary In this book Tatiana Zachar Podolinska explores how post-modern Marian devotion represents both the continuation and restoration of tradition in the modern world. Podolinska 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, Podolinska 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Devotion to -- Slovakia
SUBJECT Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint fast
Subject Romanies -- Slovakia -- Religion
Devotion
Romanies -- Religion
Slovakia
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783030563646
3030563642