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标题：Superstition in the House of God? Some Estonian Case Studies of Vernacular Practices
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作者：Kristiina Johanson ; Tõnno Jonuks
期刊名称：Mirator
电子版ISSN：1457-2362
出版年度：2015
卷号：16
期号：1
出版社：University of Jyväskylä
摘要：When studying ritual practices in churches it is often the official rituals of institutionalised nature that have been focused on. The unofficial ones (magical, vernacular, popular interpretations) have been labelled as folk religion and have usually only been mentioned in passing. These two sides of ritual practices have traditionally been studied separately and due to the lack of systematic background the latter has often been treated as a collection of random magical acts that have little to do with Christian religion. Vernacular practices that seemingly have little or no connection with the official liturgy in churches have often been considered originating in the pre-Christian period, thus being pagan in nature. This in its turn has created a view of the syncretic nature of folk religion where pre-Christian and Christian elements have intertwined to form a mixture of popular interpretations of Christian liturgical elements. Contrary to such interpretations in this article we suggest that both ritual practices have to be understood in the same frame and instead of representing two different traditions they form a closely associated system in a particular time period