I. The Term and the Academic Discipline – II. Religious Studies – III. Social Science – IV. Practical Theology
I. The Term and the Academic Discipline
Folklore is concerned with material and linguistic traditions (e.g. dwellings, costumes, dialects, fairy tales), the spiritual and religious life of the “common people” (Customs, Piety), as well as with historical and contemporary phenomena of everyday culture. Unlike ethnology, folklore …