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The burning saints : cognition and culture in the fire-walking rituals of the Anastenaria

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F12%3A00061730" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/12:00061730 - isvavai.cz</a>

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  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    The burning saints : cognition and culture in the fire-walking rituals of the Anastenaria

  • Original language description

    The Anastenaria are Orthodox Christians in Northern Greece who observe a unique annual ritual cycle focused on two festivals, dedicated to Saint Constantine and Saint Helen. The festivals involve processions, music, dancing, animal sacrifices, and culminate in an electrifying fire-walking ritual. Carrying the sacred icons of the saints, participants dance over hot coals as the saint moves them. The Burning Saints presents an analysis of these rituals and the psychology behind them. Based on long-term fieldwork, The Burning Saints traces the historical development and sociocultural context of the Greek fire-walking rituals. As a cognitive ethnography, the book aims to identify the social, psychological and neurobiological factors which may be involved and to explore the role of emotional and physiological arousal in the performance of such ritual.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    B - Specialist book

  • CEP classification

    AA - Philosophy and religion

  • OECD FORD branch

Result continuities

  • Project

    <a href="/en/project/EE2.3.20.0048" target="_blank" >EE2.3.20.0048: Laboratory for Experimental Research of Religion</a><br>

  • Continuities

    P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Others

  • Publication year

    2012

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • ISBN

    9781845539764

  • Number of pages

    256

  • Publisher name

    Equinox

  • Place of publication

    London

  • UT code for WoS book