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Фолклор и религия І: Проблемът за термините
Folklore and religion I: Problem of terms

Author(s): Konstantin Rangochev
Subject(s): Anthropology
Published by: Асоциация за антропология, етнология и фолклористика ОНГЬЛ

Summary/Abstract: The article considers the main problem for the ethnology from the end of XIX century to the beginning of XXI century: the war about the terms which describe it. That means defining and verifying of the link between the constituent terms folklore and religion. The contemporary ethnology (as well as the folklore studies and the anthropology…) is a science in which the degree of abstraction of the researches is very big and increase without interruption. The researcher usually operates with a text, not with a discourse. The most frequent situation is when the context of one text is unclear, lost etc. Consequently, when the researcher investigates the text, he discovered in it a great number of meanings. However they are not obligatory to be adequate to the “real” context. From here follows a sad conclusion – nowadays the sense of great parts of the Bulgarian folklore culture is lost, even for its modern bearers. From this point of view the large numbers of problems in the considered terminological sphere folklore and religion are around the defining of the religious and its historical fate in the period XV-XIX century and in particular the folklore orthodoxy. The article shows that in its concrete acts the orthodox Christianity and the Bulgarian folklore culture does not contradict but the opposite – between them are available direct and absolute congruencies. Therefore it is arrived the time for giving a new meaning of these terms as ordinary Christianity, folklore Christianity and utilitarian sacrality which obviously or not are opposed to orthodox Christianity. In a view of the fact that the Bulgarian ethnos is in the centre of the orthodox civilization the Bulgarian folklore culture could be understood and interpreted adequate only in the light of the orthodox Christianity.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 9
  • Page Range: 313-334
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Bulgarian