Counterintuitiveness and Ritual Efficacy in Early Modern Karelian Healing: An Application of the Ritual Competence Theory

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  • Siria Kohonen University of Helsinki

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3986/Traditio2018470305

Keywords:

Karelia, healing rituals, rituals, sages, counterintuitiveness, ritual competence theory // Karelija, zdravilni obredi, obredi, modreci, protiintuitivnost, teorija ritualne kompetence

Abstract

This article presents an application of Thomas E. Lawson and Robert N. McCauley’s ritual competence theory in order to study two early modern Karelian sages and their rituals, especially their healing rituals. I analyse how this application presents ritual efficacy in archived healing narratives, and how such an efficacy affects interpretations of the rituals and their performers.

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V članku je predstavljena uporaba teorije ritualne kompetence Thomasa E. Lawsona in Roberta N. McCauleya na primeru dveh zgodnjemodernih karelijskih modrecev in njunih obredov, posebej zdravilnih. Avtorica analizira, kako ta raba predstavlja ritualno učinkovitost v arhiviranih zdravilnih pripovedih in kako učinkovitost vpliva na interpretacijo obredov in njihovih izvajalcev.

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Published

06.12.2018

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Kohonen, S. (2018). Counterintuitiveness and Ritual Efficacy in Early Modern Karelian Healing: An Application of the Ritual Competence Theory. Traditiones, 47(3), 63–82. https://doi.org/10.3986/Traditio2018470305

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Vol. 47 No. 3 (2018): SACRED SPACE AND PLACE AND THEIR SYMBOLIC ADOPTION / SVETI PROSTOR IN KRAJ IN NJUNO SIMBOLNO PRISVAJANJE

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SACRED SPACE AND PLACE AND THEIR SYMBOLIC ADOPTION / SVETI PROSTOR IN KRAJ IN NJUNO SIMBOLNO PRISVAJANJE

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