الطاعون و الأوبئة و ارتباطها بالبعد الديني في المخيال الشعبي للمجتمع الجزائري

Abstract EN

Epidemics are a phenomenon inherent to humanity throughout the ages, as many nations have often suffered from epidemics causing the death of many nations and peoples.

Epidemics have been associated in general with the popular idea of a culture because all nations have experienced in this period of time what kind of pests have kept this in their collective social memory, and contributed through the experiences that they lived with different epidemics in benefiting from their experiences in facing epidemics for future generations, countries Maghreb, like other parts of the world, have also known epidemics throughout their history, and the most widespread and deadly epidemics in this region were the plague that sits at the top of the most widespread epidemics in the world, but different societies often used to face epidemics in the search of the past in search of practices and I Will used by veterans in the face of these epidemics can not find the individual refuge only in the popular imagination for his group, which belongs to.

Here, the religious dimension emerges as a link between practice and interpretation, so people at such times resort to some religious practices as an alternative solution, especially when medicine and science are unable to provide treatment, and a strong rise in the spirit of the community appears in societies, and societies resort to religious rituals that search for their roles in The popular imagination of its group, and from it we will deal in this regard, the connection of epidemics and plague with the popular imagination of Maghreb societies and Algeria in particular, and the extent of this link to the religious dimension.