Zastavení nad vztahem kultury, víry a konfese u vojvodovských Čechů

• Authors: Marek Jakoubek

Title variants

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The Relationship of Culture, Belief, and Creed among the Czechs of Vojvodovo (Bulgaria)

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The text represents another contribution in the series of articles on Vojvodovo, the Czech village in Bulgaria, published in recent years. The author attempts to answer the question in his analysis why so many Vojvodovo Czech Protestants chose as their marriage partners inhabitants of a nearby village of Bărdarski Geran, both Banat Bulgarians (Paulicians) and Banat Swabians. In both villages religion was perhaps the most important organizational principle, religious endogamy being one of its main rules. One would expect absence of intermarriage between Vojvodovo and Bărdarski Geran for this reason; the opposite, however, was the case. The author shows that the reason why members of both communities felt a kind of mutual affinity was culture, as both groups shared many cultural traits. One of these cultural traits was deep and genuine religiosity, perhaps better expressed as belief. So, although at first sight religiosity (in the form of their creeds) would seem to prevent any closer contacts developing between the two communities, it actually is religiosity (as belief) that stands behind the surprising and unexpected number of marriages that took place between members of the two local communities.

Keywords

EN

history; Vojvodovo; Bulgaria; Banat Bulgarians; Paulicians; Banat; Swabians; belief

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovanský přehled: historická revue pro dějiny střední, východní a jihovýchodní Evropy (Slavonic Review: Review for Central, Eastern and Southeastern European history)
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 99
• Issue: 3-4
• Pages: 371-384

Contributors

author

Marek Jakoubek

• Katedra antropologických a historických studií, Západočeská univerzita v Plzni, Sedláčkova 15, 306 14 Plzeň, Czech Republic