TY  - BOOK
AU  - Justyna Straczuk
PY  - 2021
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2191-3293
SN  - 9783631866948
TI  - The Graveyard and the Table
T2  - The Catholic-Orthodox Borderland in Poland and Belarus
DO  - 10.3726/b19019
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1140572
N2  - The book is based on long-term ethnographic research in the Polish-Belarusian borderland. It examines the dynamics of symbolic boundaries between the Catholic and Orthodox believers in their everyday lives. By analyzing the space of local cemeteries, rituals, and attitudes related to death, eating practices, and food sharing, the author points to the changing sense of ethnic identity and the feeling of familiarity and otherness. Confessionally mixed neighborhoods and families enable different forms of religious bivalency and become a crucial factor in bridging and crossing ethnic boundaries. Socio-cultural norms and social relations shape the ethnic identity of the borderland’s residents more than the institutional frames of both churches.
KW  - religious diversity, ethnic identity, death rituals, food practices, peasant culture, folk religiousness
LA  - English
ER  -