Youth in the symbolism of transition rituals of the Eastern Slavs

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Bernshtam, T.A

Molodost` v Simvolizme Perekhodnykh Obriadov Vostochnykh Slavian

Uchenie i Opyt Tserkvi v Narodnom Khristianstve

[ Youth in the symbolism of transition rituals of the Eastern Slavs : Teaching and experience of the Church in folk Christianity]

St. Petersburg: Peterburgskoe Vostokovedenie, 2000
395 p Images

Serie: Ethnographica Petropolitana
Hardcover. 14 x 21 cm
ISBN: 5858031447
Language: Russian

The main subject of this monograph is the symbolism of transition rituals of the Eastern Slavic peasants, Russian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian, of the 19th-early 20th centuries. The monograph is a comparative study of the age symbols in folk Christian beliefs vs. the teaching of the Russian Orthodox Church about life and death. The following transition rituals are investigated: birth-baptism, marriage, death, burial, and remembrance in prayer. Tat`iana Bernshtam (1935-2008) a well known Russian ethnographer and folklorist

Subjects

» History: General Works and Philosophy of History » Early Rus and Medieval Russia

» Ethnic Issues and Nationalities » Ethnology and Ethnography

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