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István Povedák first lecture: "Vernacular Religious Wars: The Battle of Sükösd"

January 29, 2015
4:30PM - 5:30PM
Mershon Center for International Security Studies

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Add to Calendar 2015-01-29 16:30:00 2015-01-29 17:30:00 István Povedák first lecture: "Vernacular Religious Wars: The Battle of Sükösd" Lecture Series & Graduate Student Workshop on Vernacular ReligionCo-Sponsored by the Center for Folklore Studies, the Mershon Center for International Security Studies and the English Department  István Povedák  Conflicts between believers and the clergy arose in a small Hunagarian village in 1993 when a woman claimed that Jesus appeared to her and asked her to serve as his messenger. Since then Marika, the visionary of Sükösd, has received messages from Jesus on every first Friday of the month. During these long rituals, the woman experiences the Stations of the Cross and relives the sufferings of Christ until she finally ‘dies’ and falls unconscious. In the past two decades her “Golgotha” induced a remarkable pilgrimage from different parts of Hungary. Despite prohibition by Hungarian bishops, the chapel – built by Marika and her followers – is filled with pilgrims waiting for the message of Jesus mediated by the visionary. This lecture will examine the contradictorily interpreted phenomena that generated significant tensions in the vernacular religiosity of Hungarian Roman Catholic believers. A central question of the lecture is how this movement has been incorporated in the ‘playground of pseudo-historians.’ Though the practice has taken on a neonationalist overtone it has had little to no international attention. This is one event in a three part lecture/workshop series. For more information about the other events, see events page.If you require assistance to attend these events, please contact the organizers at karna.5@osu.edu. Mershon Center for International Security Studies Center for the Study of Religion religion@osu.edu America/New_York public
Lecture Series & Graduate Student Workshop on Vernacular Religion
Co-Sponsored by the Center for Folklore Studies, the Mershon Center for International Security Studies and the English Department 
 
István Povedák 
 
Conflicts between believers and the clergy arose in a small Hunagarian village in 1993 when a woman claimed that Jesus appeared to her and asked her to serve as his messenger. Since then Marika, the visionary of Sükösd, has received messages from Jesus on every first Friday of the month. During these long rituals, the woman experiences the Stations of the Cross and relives the sufferings of Christ until she finally ‘dies’ and falls unconscious. In the past two decades her “Golgotha” induced a remarkable pilgrimage from different parts of Hungary. Despite prohibition by Hungarian bishops, the chapel – built by Marika and her followers – is filled with pilgrims waiting for the message of Jesus mediated by the visionary.
 
This lecture will examine the contradictorily interpreted phenomena that generated significant tensions in the vernacular religiosity of Hungarian Roman Catholic believers. A central question of the lecture is how this movement has been incorporated in the ‘playground of pseudo-historians.’ Though the practice has taken on a neonationalist overtone it has had little to no international attention.
 

This is one event in a three part lecture/workshop series. For more information about the other events, see events page.

If you require assistance to attend these events, please contact the organizers at karna.5@osu.edu.