Peasants, Pilgrims, and Sacred Promises

by Laura Stark

Lying on the border between eastern and western Christendom, Orthodox Karelia preserved its unique religious culture into the 19th and 20th centuries, when it was described and recorded by Finnish and Karelian folklore collectors. This colorful array of ritulas and beliefs involving nature spirits, saints, the dead, and pilgrimage to monasteries represented a unigue fusion of official Church ritual and doctrine and pre-Christian ethnic folk belief...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9517463669
• ISBN13: 9789517463669
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Suomen Kirjallisuuden Seura
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 10.0"