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St George in the Caucasus: politics, gender, mobility

    Kevin Tuite

Sakralität und Mobilität im Kaukasus und in Südosteuropa, pp. 21-56, 2017/12/15

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Abstract

Despite what many people believe, the land of Georgia and its people are not named after St George. Nonetheless, the warrior saint is exceptionally popular in the Caucasus, especially in those regions which are, or once were, Orthodox Christian. In this paper, I present an overview of the St George cult in the Caucasus. The principal themes will be the combinatory power of the figure of St George in both textual and visual representations (which I will term “valence”), and its appropriation in popular religious systems. Also to be discus-sed here is the pairing of localized avatars of St George with a female supernatural figure, and the role of this pairing in traditional beliefs about male mobility for the purpose of obtaining resources.

Keywords: Christianty, St George, hybridity, mobility, polivalence