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'She Read Me a Prayer and I Read It Back to Her': Gagauz Women, Miraculous Literacy and the Dreaming of Charms
2014
Religion and Gender
This paper explores the polyvalent and gendered nature of the relationship between the practices of reading and charming and the Mother of God in the dream narratives of Gagauz women in the Republic of Moldova. The most widespread healing text used by this Orthodox Christian minority, The Dream of the Mother of God, is paradigmatic of this relationship being the principle 'site' where images of and beliefs about healing and dreaming meet with women's reading and writing practices. Women's
doi:10.1163/18785417-00401002
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