Letters from Heaven: Popular Religion in Russia and Ukraine

Canadian Slavonic Papers;  September 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Zayarnyuk, eds. Letters from Heaven: Popular Religion in Russia and Ukraine. Toronto: University...by focusing on Orthodox and Uniate popular religion. In compiling this collection, the editors sought to engage the concept of "popular religion" and to explore the usefulness of...

Elite and Popular Religion.(Book review)

Church History;  September 1, 2007 ;     242 words ...Elite and Popular Religion. Edited by Kate Cooper and Jeremy...Boydell and Brewer for the Ecclesiastical History Society, 2006. xiv + 442 pp...chose the theme of Elite and Popular Religion for the Ecclesiastical History Society's meetings in 2004 and...to problematize the ...

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Journal of Church and State;  March 22, 1998 ;     355 words ...Popular Religion in Germany and Central Europe, 1400-18...spirituality and the infant Jesus, Hussite popular religion, witchcraft, a witch-trial, popular...in Lindau, a prophet in Lubeck, popular religion and Jesuit missionary efforts in...

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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute;  March 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...FEUCHTWANT, STEPHAN. Popular religion in China: the imperial metaphor...Feuchtwang's study of Chinese popular religion marked a significant advance...title, The imperial metaphor: popular religion in China. It was widely and...

Xiaofei Kang. The Cult of the Fox: Power, Gender, and Popular Religion in...

China Review International;  March 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Cult of the Fox: Power, Gender, and Popular Religion in Late Imperial and Modern China...categorization has dominated our view of popular religion since the publication in the early...spirit world of Chinese (or Taiwanese) popular religion breaks down into three major types...

Being Religious, American Style: A History of Popular Religiosity in the...

The Catholic Historical Review;  July 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......to trace the history of "popular" religion among the American people...construct a history of American popular religion, I was troubled by his method...this history. Lippy sees popular religion and its history as a companion...

Popular Religion and Modernization in Latin America: A Different Logic

Anglican Theological Review;  April 1, 1998 ;     604 words ...Popular Religion and Modernization in Latin America...tired of the arrogant dismissal of popular religion as vestigial superstition, tired...of the many-sided forms taken by popular religion in today's Latin America and the...

Adam Yuet Chau. Miraculous Response: Doing Popular Religion in...

Asian Ethnology;  March 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Yuet Chau. Miraculous Response: Doing Popular Religion in Contemporary China Stanford, CA...works and many articles on Chinese popular religion in post-Mao China, but there are rather...who are interested in the study of popular religion in China. The subtitle doing popular...

Hymnody as history: early evangelical hymns and the recovery of American...

Church History;  June 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......through which to explore early American popular religion. I. DEFINING POPULAR RELIGION AND AMERICAN HYMNODY What can we learn...have created a new discourse on American popular religion that supplies a promising approach to...

Miraculous Response: Doing Popular Religion in Contemporary China

The China Journal;  July 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Miraculous Response: Doing Popular Religion in Contemporary China, by Adam Yuet...Chau's Miraculous Response: Doing Popular Religion in Contemporary China presents a critical...covering three intertwined themes: popular religion and folk cultural revivalism, agrarian...

Miraculous response: doing popular religion in contemporary China.(Book...

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute;  December 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......ADAM YUET. Miraculous response: doing popular religion in contemporary China. xvi, 317 pp...that focus on rites, this study of popular religion focuses almost exclusively on the...migrants, as some think the revival of popular religion in post-Mao China must be. The rebuilding...

TENT MEETINGS FADE FROM VIEW.(LIFE)

The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC);  July 21, 1996 ;     329 words ......revivals, once a staple of American popular religion, have nearly vanished from the scene...revivals have been an integral part of popular religion in America, but their roots long predate...and the author of Great Awakenings: Popular Religion and Popular Culture. Both promise...

Medieval Popular Religion, 1000-1500: A Reader

The Catholic Historical Review;  January 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ...Medieval Popular Religion, 1000-1500:A Reader. Edited by...a very broad understanding of"popular religion" in mind, echoing the editor...the twelfth century, medieval popular religion was, for many purposes, simply...

Goddess on the rise: pilgrimage and popular religion in...

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute;  September 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Goddess on the rise: pilgrimage and popular religion in Vietnam. x, 332 pp., map, illus...Goddess on the rise: pilgrimage and popular religion in Vietnam represents an important...contribution to the growing literature on popular religion in contemporary Vietnam. The study...

Popular Religion in Sixteenth-Century England. Holding Their Peace

The Catholic Historical Review;  July 1, 1999 ;     532 words ...Popular Religion in Sixteenth-Century England. Holding Their Peace. By Christopher...cloth; $19.95 paperback.) Over the last two decades, accounts of "popular religion" have undergone an astonishing transformation. On the cover of this...