Discovering Slavic Mythology between East and West: Folklore Research and the Pagan Past in the Service of Nation-Building

IF 0.2 4区社会学 0 FOLKLORE FOLKLORE Pub Date : 2022-10-02 DOI:10.1080/0015587X.2022.2077562

P. Horák

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Abstract This article analyses how pagan Slavic religion and mythology were assembled in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, using the example of folklore research in the Czech lands. It demonstrates how imaginings of the original nature of Slavic religion and mythology, and speculations about the Indo-European past, contributed to Czech nation-building. Reviewing the shift from amateur folklore research to the establishment of institutionalized disciplines, the article argues that Christian theological assumptions enabled the ‘discovery’ of Slavic religion and gave it a peculiar shape through secularization of the original theological ideas.

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发现东西方之间的斯拉夫神话:为国家建设服务的民俗研究与异教历史

摘要本文以捷克土地上的民俗研究为例，分析了异教斯拉夫宗教和神话在19世纪和20世纪初是如何形成的。它展示了对斯拉夫宗教和神话的原始本质的想象，以及对印欧语系过去的推测，如何促进了捷克的国家建设。本文回顾了从业余民俗研究到建立制度化学科的转变，认为基督教神学假设使斯拉夫宗教得以“发现”，并通过原始神学思想的世俗化赋予其独特的形状。

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期刊介绍： A fully peer-reviewed international journal of folklore and folkloristics. Folklore is one of the earliest journals in the field of folkloristics, first published as The Folk-Lore Record in 1878. Folklore publishes ethnographical and analytical essays on vernacular culture worldwide, specializing in traditional narrative, language, music, song, dance, drama, foodways, medicine, arts and crafts, popular religion, and belief. It reviews current studies in a wide range of adjacent disciplines including anthropology, cultural studies, ethnology, history, literature, and religion. Folklore prides itself on its special mix of reviews, analysis, ethnography, and debate; its combination of European and North American approaches to the study of folklore; and its coverage not only of the materials and processes of folklore, but also of the history, methods, and theory of folkloristics. Folklore aims to be lively, informative and accessible, while maintaining high standards of scholarship.

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