Today in the international Witchcraft, Magic and Popular Religion - XI Gustav Vasa seminar 11.-12.6.2013 at the department of History and Ethnology in Jyväskylä. The Eleventh annual Gustav Vasa seminar discusses these themes in multidisciplinary perspectives, e.g. from the fields of history, anthropology, religious science and archaeology. The focus of the seminar is on worldviews and belief systems and their internal logic, which influenced the way people understood the world and the supernatural.
I had a presentation "Popular Religion in Name-Giving: The Effects of Improved Literacy Skills on the Change of People’s Use of Rituals at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries". In it I focused on the effects of improved literacy skills on rituals and popular beliefs connected with the name-giving of newborn babies in the Finnish countryside.
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