Θρησκευτική και εθιμική Λαογραφία

The subject of the course is the study of religious folklore and, in particular, of the forms of popular religiousness and the traditional religious behavior of the Greeks. The course also examines forms of custom and ritual over time and in their contemporary manifestations. It places particular stress upon customs associated with the life cycle, the yearly festival calendar and on new forms of custom and ritual that define the life of contemporary man. It also deals with the forms of custom and religion of urban life and corresponding phenomena of public life, in so far as these are associated with other manifestations of folk culture.