Superstitions between Usefulness and Strife

• Authors: Monica Bilauca
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The present paper investigates one of the forms of expression and manifestation belonging to popular religiosity, the superstitions, practices through which people get into disagreement with their self and with the ideology advanced by institutions whose declared mission is to investigate and overcome man’s spiritual condition, the Church. There will be looked into, on the one hand, the major types of superstitions that the Romanians have according to a number of variables (ages, gender, education) and, on the other hand, the categories of conflict generated by the superstitious behaviour.

Keywords

EN

superstition; conflict/contradiction; efficiency; psychic; collective mentality

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Messages, Sages and Ages
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 15-21

Dates

published

2016-11-01

online

2016-11-16

Contributors

author

Monica Bilauca

• Faculty of Letters and Communication Sciences, Ştefan cel Mare University of Suceava, 13 Universităţii Street, 720229 Suceava,

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/msas-2016-0010