Jack Mary Ann and the Myth of the Sinning Deacon: Images of Nonconformist Asceticism in Fictive Folklore

Jack Mary Ann and the Myth of the Sinning Deacon: Images of Nonconformist Asceticism in Fictive Folklore

Notes some difficulties of researching beliefs through interviews, one being that testimony can draw on and be overlain with collective folklore. Discusses how the inhabitants of a mining village in north Wales have used the 'fictive lore' of 'Jack Mary Ann' and the 'Sinning...

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Veröffentlicht in:Oral history (Colchester) 1996-10, Vol.24 (2), p.35-41
1. Verfasser: Laidlaw, Roger
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Anecdotes
Asceticism
Coalfields
Communities
Folklore
Folktales
Literary characters
Moral character
Myth
Myths
Narratives
Oral history
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Zusammenfassung:Notes some difficulties of researching beliefs through interviews, one being that testimony can draw on and be overlain with collective folklore. Discusses how the inhabitants of a mining village in north Wales have used the 'fictive lore' of 'Jack Mary Ann' and the 'Sinning Deacon' to frame their responses to the ascetic ideals promoted by the Nonconformist churches in the period 1930-1960.
ISSN:0143-0955