@article{1432508,
      recid = {1432508},
      author = {Podolinska, Tatiana Zachar,},
      title = {Marian devotion among the Roma in Slovakia : a post-modern  religious response to marginality /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xiii, 166 pages)},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1432508},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56364-6},
}