Ernesto De Martino on Religion

Ferrari, Fabrizio M.

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“…The most influential study of this phenomenon is still the one conducted in June 1959 by Ernesto de Martino and his équipe that resulted in the book La Terra del Rimorso. 6 Tarantismo, as described by Ernesto de Martino (1976Martino ( [1961), disappeared from the public scene at the end of the twentieth century. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, with the modernization of the region, it ceased to be performed as a predominantly healing practice, while reemerging mainly as a popular culture musical phenomenon.…”

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“Separation, but not Division”: A Southern Italian Perspective on “Lived Conspirituality”

Parmigiani

2023

anthropologica

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Conspirituality—that is, the connection between conspiracy theories and spirituality—has recently gained popularity in academic and non-academic circles. Often associated with populist and irrational beliefs, it has been linked to right-wing politics, faulty thinking, and disruptive and potentially violent behaviour (Greenwood 2022; Russell 2022). While these connections have been proven to be true in some cases, in this paper, rooted in my long-standing ethnographic research, I offer a contribution that illuminates other aspects of conspirituality—in line with recent attempts to honour the complexity and internal variability of the phenomenon (for example, Greenwood 2022; Ong 2021). In particular, differently from the overwhelming majority of current approaches in the study of conspirituality, I propose to frame the study of conspirituality not only by focusing on ideas and beliefs, but in conversation with the study of “lived religion” (see, for example, Ammerman 2021; Hall 2001; McGuire 2008) in a way that distinguishes the actual experience of persons from normative beliefs and practices. Similarly to what the study of “lived religion” does to the study of religion, I claim that the study of “lived conspirituality” could offer insights into the phenomenon of conspiracism, today (Ong 2020). By analyzing discourses and practices of conspiritualists that I observed on the field, I will challenge mainstream interpretations of the role of the individual and of marginality in New Age conspirituality.

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“Separation, but not Division”: A Southern Italian Perspective on “Lived Conspirituality”

Parmigiani

2023

anthropologica

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“…The crisis of presence is the threat of losing the distinction between subject and object, between thought and action, between representation and judgment. It is the cry of one who is teetering on the edge of the abyss (Ferrari 2014, 101); it is the anguish of not being ( esserci ) in a human history (De Martino 2000).…”

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“…88According to De Martino, presence is the esserci , a kind of Heideggerian Dasein , but with some nuances: it is not the being thrown into the world, but a duty for being‐in‐the‐world, a kind of determination that he would later call the ethos of transcendence ( ethos del trascendimento ) (De Martino 2000, 2002). For De Martino, “presence” is “becoming” ( divenire ) instead of simply “being” (Berardini and Marraffa 2016; Bergé 2001; Ferrari 2014; Signorelli 2015). …”

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The echo of the world: The castaway, the Garabandal apparitions, and the crisis of presence

Hernáez¹

2022

American Anthropologist

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In the early 1990s, while I was conducting an ethnographic study in a psychosocial rehabilitation center in Barcelona for people suffering from psychosis, a patient and informant gave me four letters that he had supposedly sent to various recipients. Only recently did I discover that these letters, which warned of terrible catastrophes, were related to the Marian apparitions of Garabandal in the 1960s in Spain, and that their recipients had all been involved in this amazing event. This discovery led me to attempt an ethnographic reparation, and to reconsider the letters as a way of inhabiting the world. With this objective and drawing on Ernesto de Martino's concept of “crisis of presence,” I propose to understand the informant's experience as an extreme example of the porosity of presence. I conclude that the letters can be understood as the affected person's struggle for being in a human history. [crisis of presence, Garabandal apparitions, reflexivity, schizophrenia]

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“…A good example of this is the international reception of the Italian scholar of lived religion Ernesto de Martino (1908Martino ( -1965, whose works are now discovered as pathbreaking. His legacy was celebrated in a special issue of the Journal of American Folklore (see Zinn 2015), and his contribution to the study of religion is discussed in dedicated monographs (Ferrari 2012;Geisshuesler 2021). De Martino relies upon the Gramscian understanding of folklore as 'popular creativity', which emphasises the aesthetics of voluntary performance; concepts such as hybridity, mimicry, particularism and the permeability of culture are all part of his theorising of folklore and the related social phenomena (Ferrari 2012: 44).…”

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The Instrumental Vernacular

Valk

2023

Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics

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Written as a response to professor Simon Bronner’s critical analysis of the concept vernacular and its uses, published in the Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics (2022), the article highlights the functionality of the term ‘vernacular’. It has become a folkloristic category, binding conceptual domains such as ‘folk’ and ‘institutional’, ‘folkloric’ and ‘authored’, ‘oral’ and ‘literary’, ‘belief’ and ‘knowledge’, which have often been set apart in former scholarship. The main focus of the article is on vernacular religion as a concept and methodology, introduced by Leonard N. Primiano in the 1990s, which opened up a new perspective in the study of religions. The article considers ‘vernacular’ as a flexible concept, instrumental in developing folkloristics in its trans-disciplinary dialogues. Projected on the history of folk-loristics as a multilingual field of studies with roots in multiple national, regional and ethnic traditions, vernacular as an outlook enables us to think of folklore as a transcultural concept and disconnect it from colonial legacies.

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Ernesto De Martino on Religion

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“Separation, but not Division”: A Southern Italian Perspective on “Lived Conspirituality”

“Separation, but not Division”: A Southern Italian Perspective on “Lived Conspirituality”

The echo of the world: The castaway, the Garabandal apparitions, and the crisis of presence

The Instrumental Vernacular

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