id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
folklorica-3733	Ivanov, Petko; Izmirlieva, Valentina	Betwixt and Between: The Cult of Living Saints in Contemporary Bulgaria	2021	21	.pdf	application/pdf	10420	688	66	In social terms, however, the saint is above all the figure of a religious virtuoso emerging at the interface of official and popular religion.(2) Various hagiolatric communities, from loosely defined local groups to well organized religious societies and sects, constantly cultivate their religious specialists who are often dubbed �saints� and treated as saints while still alive. Such holy persons, aspiring for saintly status in their lifetime who have not been canonized by the official Church, are usually designated in the scholarly tradition as �folk,� �near-,� �would-be,� �living� [see, e.g., Macklin and Margolies 1988], or in general not-quite-saints, to differentiate them from their canonized, �otherworldly� colleagues.	cache/folklorica-3733.pdf	txt/folklorica-3733.txt