Counterintuitiveness and Ritual Efficacy in Early Modern Karelian Healing: An Application of the Ritual Competence Theory

This article presents an application of Thomas E. Lawson and Robert N. McCauley’s ritual competence theory in order to study two early modern Karelian sages and their rituals, especially their healing rituals. I analyse how this application presents ritual efficacy in archived healing narratives, an...

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Published in:Traditiones
Main Author: Kohonen, Siria
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: ZRC SAZU, Založba ZRC 2018
Subjects:
Karelia
healing rituals
rituals
sages
counterintuitiveness
ritual competence theory // Karelija
zdravilni obredi
obredi
modreci
protiintuitivnost
teorija ritualne kompetence
karelian
Online Access:https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/traditiones/article/view/7188/6707
https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/traditiones/article/view/7188
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Summary:This article presents an application of Thomas E. Lawson and Robert N. McCauley’s ritual competence theory in order to study two early modern Karelian sages and their rituals, especially their healing rituals. I analyse how this application presents ritual efficacy in archived healing narratives, and how such an efficacy affects interpretations of the rituals and their performers. *** V članku je predstavljena uporaba teorije ritualne kompetence Thomasa E. Lawsona in Roberta N. McCauleya na primeru dveh zgodnjemodernih karelijskih modrecev in njunih obredov, posebej zdravilnih. Avtorica analizira, kako ta raba predstavlja ritualno učinkovitost v arhiviranih zdravilnih pripovedih in kako učinkovitost vpliva na interpretacijo obredov in njihovih izvajalcev.

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