„WE WERE LED BY THE LORD IN A SPECIAL WAY …” : VISIONS, EXPLICATIONS AND REALITY IN A TWENTIETH CENTURY CALVINIST CONGREGATION
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Cm:
„WE WERE LED BY THE LORD IN A SPECIAL WAY …” : VISIONS, EXPLICATIONS AND REALITY IN A TWENTIETH CENTURY CALVINIST CONGREGATION
Ltrehoz:
Küllős, Imola
Kiad:
Akadémiai Kiadó
Dtum:
2001
Tma:
GT Manners and customs / néprajz, szokások, hagyományok
Tartalmi lers:
The main religious lay-leader of the Hungarian Calvinists living in Carpathian
Ukraine was the peasant-prophetess, Mrs. Mariska Borku (1910–1978). Her higly important work,
the so-called “Third Testament” is a manuscript, written under the influence of the Holy Spirit. It
was considered by Mrs. Mariska Borku and her followers as a holy text, a part of the Bible. These
almost 800 biblical “quasi loci” were spread in hand-written copies and were read aloud at religious
meetings in the Hungarian villages of Carpathian Ukraine, even 10–15 years after her death. Beside
the biblical paraphrases, religious songs and prayers, one fourth of the text consists of her visions.
The prophetess never explained these visions and the Holy Spirit’s “verbs” to her followers – only
announced them. Recently the largest religious community of her followers, mostly women over
fifty, exists in the village of Dercen. Its lay-leader, Miss Ida Balla, can explain the Words of the
“Third Testament”, and the visions of Mrs. Borku on the occasion of their private religious service
Sunday afternoons.
My study offers a short survey of the historical and political situation of the area between 1920
and 1995, in which the emphasised folk religion played a very important role in the survival of national
identity and in strengthening the faith of the Hungarian inhabitants living in a very often
tragic minority status.
I illustrate my presentation with original visionary texts of the “Third Testament”, and their
actual-political exegesis given by the recent lay-leader of Mrs. Mariska Borku’s followers.
Nyelv:
magyar
Tpus:
Article
PeerReviewed
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Formtum:
text
Azonost:
Küllős, Imola (2001) „WE WERE LED BY THE LORD IN A SPECIAL WAY …” : VISIONS, EXPLICATIONS AND REALITY IN A TWENTIETH CENTURY CALVINIST CONGREGATION. Acta Ethnographica Hungarica, 46 (1-2). pp. 153-159. ISSN 1216-9803
Kapcsolat:
https://doi.org/10.1556/AEthn.46.2001.1-2.15