Religiozitate populară şi simbolism acvatic

Ioana Repciuc (b. 1983) is a PhD scientific researcher in the Department of Ethnography and Folklore of the Institute of Romanian Philology "A. Philippide", Romanian Academy - Iaşi Branch. He holds a doctorate in philology, since 2011, with a thesis on the poetics of Romanian enchantments, defended at the "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University in Iaşi. He has published numerous studies and articles in magazines and specialized volumes. This book is the result of a postdoctoral project funded by the National Council of Scientific Research (CNCS-UEFISCDI, PN-II-RU-PD-2011-3-0220), entitled "Elements of popular religiosity in Romanian water rites. A socio-anthropological perspective", and of a research internship in Great Britain, at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology - University of Oxford. The book is a socio-anthropological analysis of some popular religious rituals from the family cycle and from the calendar cycle, associated due to the reporting within them, by the ritual performers, to various poses of the aquatic element, from the great rivers on the banks of which collective processions take place to the vessels of the churches. The central aim of the research is to demonstrate the integration of these folklore manifestations in the vast and heterogeneous field of popular Romanian religiosity, as well as a universal dimension of the relationship between local ritual practices of a wide pagan tradition and Christian prescriptions. In addition to archival information, the results of ethno-folkloric surveys carried out by the authors in villages in northern Moldova, Bucovina and southwestern Oltenia were used to illustrate the arguments.