Anthropologies of Orthodox Christianity : theology, politics, ethics / Candace Lukasi and Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lukasik, Candace, editor.

Riccardi-Swartz, Sarah, editor.

Series:

Orthodox Christianity and contemporary thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Orthodox Eastern Church--Theology.

Orthodox Eastern Church.

Christianity and politics--Orthodox Eastern Church.

Christianity and politics.

Religion and politics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2026.

Summary:

"Anthropologically explores the entanglement of theology and politics among contemporary Orthodox Christians Much of the anthropological literature on Christianity tends to concentrate on Protestants and Catholics in the Global South. The contemporary scholarly interest in such communities descends from histories of missionization and colonization of these regions, as well as a sense of their theologi­cal kinship with the secularized visions of Western political and social life. Orthodox Christianity, however, has largely been rendered marginal in mainstream anthropological engagement because of its theological and social alterity from such Western anthropological traditions of knowledge production. Because of this, Orthodox Christian lifeworlds in and beyond the academy are cre­ated, contested, and transformed in relation to various "others," whether they be religious, political, secular, or historical, with an eye toward a discursive opposition between modernity and Orthodoxy. Each of the essays in Anthropologies of Orthodox Christianity texture a new trajectory in the study of this religious tradition that take seriously the theopolitical aspects of Orthodox life through anthropological inquiry. The volume engages and moves beyond the tension between populist and institutional framings of religion and critically addresses the ontological gap in both anthropology and theology as social, cultural, and geopolitical interest in Orthodox Christianity continues to expand and grow"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Introduction : thinking about Orthodox Christianity in an anthropological perspective / Candace Lukasik and Sarah Riccardi-Swartz

Orthodoxy from the outside : Palestinian Christian kinship and the evangelical theology of love / Clayton Goodgame

Imperial ecclesiologies and ethnographic imaginaries : situating Syriac Christianity in the anthropology of global Orthodoxy / Sarah Bakker Kellogg

The lives of priests in the Coptic imagination / Aaron Michka

Hagiographic emplacement : St. Servatius, the Armenian community of Maastricht, and Oriental Orthodox Christians in Europe / Christopher Sheklian

Dynamic honor : how Ethiopian Orthodox keber mediates the secular, the Islamic, and the religiously plural / John Dulin

The state of grace : Old Believers’ determinations of coreligiosity and moral life in the days between the mysteries / Amber Lee Silva

The heresy of Eastern papizm in Russian Orthodox online discourse / Jacob Lassin

UFOs, conspiracy, and American Eastern Orthodoxy : narrative performance of the “patristic mind” / Robert C. Saler.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed January 2, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Anthropologies of Orthodox Christianity.

ISBN:

9781531512002

1531512003

9781531511999

1531511996

OCLC:

1543004135

Access Restriction:

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