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Eastern Christians in anthropological perspective / edited by Chris Hann and Hermann Goltz.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hann/Goltz, Author.
- Series:
- Anthropology of Christianity ; 9.
- Anthropology of Christianity ; 9
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Orthodox Eastern Church--Congresses.
- Orthodox Eastern Church.
- Europe, Eastern--Religious life and customs--Congresses.
- Europe, Eastern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 375 p. ) ill., map, music ;
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The essays in this pioneering collection examine the primary distinguishing features of Eastern christian traditions through meticulous ethnographic analysis.
- 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 revised papers from a conference held in September 2005 at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-520-94592-1
- OCLC:
- 1294196346
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