Eastern Christians in anthropological perspective / edited by Chris Hann and Hermann Goltz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hann, C. M., 1953-

Goltz, Hermann.

Series:

Anthropology of Christianity ; 9.

The anthropology of Christianity ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Orthodox Eastern Church--Congresses.

Orthodox Eastern Church.

Europe, Eastern--Religious life and customs--Congresses.

Europe, Eastern.

Eastern Europe.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

x, 375 pages : illustrations, map, music ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2010]

Contents:

Introduction : the other Christianity? / Chris Hann and Hermann Goltz

Eastern Christians and religious objects : personal and material biographies entangled / Gabriel Hanganu

A dual quarrel of images on the Middle Volga : icon veneration in the face of Protestant and pagan critique / Sonja Luehrmann

Icons and/or statues? The Greek Catholic divine liturgy in Hungary and Romania, between renewal and purification / Stéphanie Mahieu

The acoustics and geopolitics of Orthodox practices in the Estonian-Russian border region / Jeffers Engelhardt

The spirit and the letter : monastic education in a Romanian Orthodix convent / Alice Forbess

Exorcising demons in post-Soviet Ukraine : a monastic community and its imagistic practice / Vlad Naumescu

Monasteries, politics, and social memory : the revival of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch in Syria during the Twentieth Century / Anna Poujeau

Orthodox-Muslim interactions as "mixed shrines" in Macedonia / Glenn Bowman

Empire dust : the web of relations in Saint George's Festival on Princes Island in Istanbul / Maria Couroucli

Pilgrimages as Kenotic Communities beyond the walls of the church / Inna Naletova

Avtobusniki : Russian Orthodox pilgrims' longing for authenticity / Jeanne Kormina

Indigenous persons and imported individuals : changing paradigms of personal identity in contemporary Greece / Renée Hirschon

Individual and collective identities in Russian Orthodoxy / Alexander Agadjanian and Kathy Rousselet

The Russian Orthodox Church, the provision of social welfare, and changing ethics of benevolence / Melissa L. Caldwell

Epilogue : ex oriente lux, once again / Douglas Rogers.

Notes:

Chiefly rev. papers from a conference held in Sept. 2005 at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780520260559

0520260554

9780520260566

0520260562

OCLC:

434613450

Publisher Number:

99938769006