historyВЕСТНИК РГГУ. Серия «Литературоведение. Языкознание. Культурология»RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series2073-6355RSUH10.28995/2686-7249-2025-1-36-51history-1752Research ArticleРЕГИОНАЛЬНОЕ И РАСОВОЕ ИЗМЕРЕНИЕ АМЕРИКАНСКОЙ ГЛУБИНКИTHE REGIONAL AND RACIAL DIMENSION OF THE AMERICAN HEARTLANDThe Devil was her Deity: Народное колдовство в графстве Йорк, Южная Каролина, в XVIII–XIX вв.The Devil was her Deity: Witchraft and folk religion in York County, South Carolina, in the 18th – 19th centuriesАлександровГ. В.AleksandrovG. V.

Глеб В. Александров, кандидат исторических наук

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Gleb V. Aleksandrov, Cand. of Sci (History)

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Представления о колдовстве в той или иной форме характерны практически для всех человеческих обществ и зачастую неотделимы от представлений религиозных, по крайней мере от того комплекса идей, представлений и практик, который обычно обозначают как народную религию, folk religion. Специфика народной религиозности на территории нынешних Южных штатов США в колониальный период остается относительно малоизученной, в первую очередь вследствие недостатка источников. Тем не менее до определенной степени она может быть реконструирована благодаря доступным сегодня материалам, собранным и обработанным интересующимися локальной историей представителями местных элит. Настоящая статья посвящена народному колдовству и «низовой» религиозности в графстве Йорк, Южная Каролина, в XVIII–XIX вв. В статье рассматриваются локальные особенности, отличающие народную культуру Южных колоний, в частности Каролины, и от Европы, и от других английских колоний, эволюция народной религиозности в колониальный период и в первые десятилетия после обретения США независимости, а также ее влияние на формирование специфической южной религиозности.

The notions of sorcery and witchcraft exist, in some way, in most human societies, and are often intrinsically connected with religion, or at least with the complex of ideas, concepts and practices usually referred to as folk religion. The specifics of folk religiosity in Southern colonies and later Southern states of the US, are under-researched in some aspects – while contemporary syncretic religions are explored in great detail, folk religion of the colonial period remains somewhat underexplored, mostly due to insufficient sources. However, it can be reconstructed, at least to some degree, using materials collected by members of local elites interested in local history and ethnography. This article examines the ideas of witchcraft in York County, South Carolina, in the 18th – 19th centuries. The key questions touch upon are the local specifics in comparison to wider colonial culture, the evolution of the ideas of witchcraft in the late colonial and early independence period, and the influence of folk religion on the emergence of specific southern religiosity.

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