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Marian devotion among the Roma in Slovakia : a post-modern religious response to marginality / Tatiana Zachar Podolinská.

9783030563646 (electronic bk.)
3030563642 (electronic bk.)
9783030563639

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

©2021

English

1 online resource (xiii, 166 pages)

10.1007/978-3-030-56364-6 doi

DX222.5 .P63 2021eb

305.8914/9704
201.7

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.

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