Faith and Overcoming Trauma in an Evangelical Romani Community

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2606800
AutoresMarkéta Slavková (0000-0003-3828-0274, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume17
Fascículo2
Páginas64-79
Data de publicação2023-12-01
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Ethnology and Folkloristics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1736-6518 • E-ISSN: 2228-0987
EditoraWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.2478/jef-2023-0018
OpenAlexW4389541342
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas22

This article addresses the role of evangelicalism as a means of overcoming the trauma caused by natural disaster or disease. Using an ethnographic approach, it examines the connection between the beliefs of Roma in the Asparukhovo neigh-bourhood of the Bulgarian city of Varna and the hazards from which they suffered: the flood in June 2014 and Covid-19 during its first wave in 2020. People make sense of tragedy using different interpretations. It is seen as a form of divine punishment, a test for religious people, or it is associated with human negligence. Disaster provokes a variety of reactions among evangelical Christians, ranging from solidarity to distrust. Most importantly, their religious practice provides them with survival tactics and a direction to follow after catastrophe has disrupted their routine

Criminology · Distrust · Environmental ethics · Ethnography · Faith · Flood myth · Geography · Natural disaster · Political science · Scapegoat · Social science · Sociology · Solidarity · Taboo · Theology · Tragedy (event) · Typology · Anthropology · Health and Conflict Studies · Law · Philosophy · Romani and Gypsy Studies