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Devotees, A New Ordeal and A Sense of Belonging: Ethnography and Nethnography of Saint Agatha
Elisabetta Di Giovannisubject
Patronage and Devotion New Ordel ReligiositybiologyAnthropologyAgathaSAINTTrial by ordealbiology.organism_classificationMartyrReligiosityHonorEthnographySettore M-DEA/01 - Discipline DemoetnoantropologicheSociologyReligious studiesEveryday lifedescription
In 2004 and in 2008, the author conducted ethnographic research in Catania (Southern Italy) on one of the most important religious feasts in honor of Saint Agatha. This chapter relates Agatha's story, which is that of a Sicilian virgin martyr persecuted in the fourth century by a Roman proconsul. At the feast of St. Agatha, the three elements: the extra-ecclesial nature of popular religiosity, the transmission of knowledge through vehicles other than seminaries and other official religious institutions, and the expression of popular religiosity with signs and symbols that transmit the presence of the supernatural in everyday life, can be found. A starting point was to identify and understand the intention of tastes, desires, symbolic systems of reference, and their influences on the decision-making powers of consumer groups. Hence, nethnography or "digital ethnography" is configured as a methodology of qualitative research, which explores cultures and communities emerging through Internet-mediated communication. Keywords:ethnography; Internet-mediated communication; nethnography; religiosity; Saint Agatha; Sicilian virgin martyr
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-01-01 |