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Álvarez-Pedrosa, Juan Antonio

Title Rituals in Slavic Pre-Christian Religion : festivals, banqueting, and divination / Juan Antonio Álvarez-Pedrosa and Enrique Santos Marina.

Publication Info.

York : Arc Humanities Press, 2023.

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Axe JSTOR Open Ebooks	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	1 online resource (148 pages) : illustrations, maps.
	text txt rdacontent
	computer c rdamedia
	online resource cr rdacarrier
Series	Beyond medieval Europe
	Beyond medieval Europe.
Summary	The authors comprehensively analyze all the available information regarding the ritual practices of Slavic pre-Christian religion that can be found in written medieval texts. After investigating every kind of reference to such practices, they offer a reconstruction of Slavic pre-Christian religion on the basis of these medieval testimonies. In doing so, they overcome the challenges presented by the fact that all of these sources are indirect, since the Slavs did not acquire literacy until they became Christians. Thus the writers of these texts mostly professed a monotheistic religion, being Christians and in some cases Muslims. The picture that they offer is biased and determined by their own faith. The present analysis innovatively combines testimonies from every Slavic area (Eastern, Western, and Southern), showing their mutual correspondences and emphasizing the relationship between the Slavic pre-Christian religion and its Indo-European roots.0.
Note	Print version record.
Contents	Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Methodological Problems in Reconstructing Pre- Christian Slavic Religion -- Chapter 2. Fertility Rites -- Chapter 3. Rites of Everyday Life -- Chapter 4. Military Rituals -- Chapter 5. Funerary Rites -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index
Subject	Ritual -- Slavic countries -- History -- To 1500.
	Slavs -- Religion.
	Paganism -- Rituals.
	Paganism -- Slavic countries.
	Slavic countries -- Religion.
	Slavic countries -- History -- To 1500.
	Slaves -- Religion.
	Paganisme -- Rituel.
	Paganisme -- États slaves.
	États slaves -- Religion.
	RELIGION / Paganism & Neo-Paganism
	Slavs -- Religion -- To 1500 -- Online
	Slavs -- Rites and ceremonies -- To 1500 -- Online
	Paganism -- Rites and ceremonies -- To 1500 -- Online
	Paganism
	Paganism -- Rituals
	Religion
	Ritual
	Slavs -- Religion
	Slavic countries
Chronological Term	To 1500
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Recurso electrónico de acceso libre
	History
Other Form:	Print version: Álvarez-Pedrosa, Juan Antonio. Rituals in Slavic Pre-Christian Religion. York : Arc Humanities Press, 2023 1641892064 (OCoLC)1360282128
ISBN	9781802701173 (electronic bk.)
	1802701176 (electronic bk.)
	1641892064
	9781641892063
Standard No.	UKMGB 020967583