Култови места и култови практики: примера с циганите в България
Cult Places and Cult Practices: the Example of Gypsies in Bulgaria

Summary/Abstract: Characteristic of the gypsy community is heterogeneity through religion. In the daily round that is religious mixture which can be characterize by the combination of different religious practices which are changing dynamically. We analyze the manifestations of religious mixture of Christian, Muslim and folk believes close to gypsies (with samples from regions of Stara Zagora, Nova Zagora, Tar-govishte, Haskovo, Sofia and others). Typical for Gypsies is adoption of places of cult, related to Muslim religion but also paying respect to different Christian and Muslim saints. Cult places and practices, connected with respects to phantom, known as “Boba/ Buba/ Baba” is familiar in the community of Horohane Roma and is localized in a differ-ent settlements.

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