Eastern Christians in anthropological perspective

Eastern Christians in anthropological perspective [Texte imprimé] / edited by Chris Hann and Hermann Goltz - Berkeley ; Los Angeles ; London : University of California Press, cop. 2010 - 1 vol. (X-375 p.) : ill., carte ; 24 cm - The anthropology of Christianity ; 9 . - The anthropology of Christianity .

Communications révisées issues d'une conférence tenue en septembre 2005 à the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

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Introduction : the other Christianity? / Eastern Christians and religious objects : personal and material biographies entangled / A dual quarrel of images on the Middle Volga : icon veneration in the face of Protestant and pagan critique / Icons and/or statues? The Greek Catholic divine liturgy in Hungary and Romania, between renewal and purification / 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 / Exorcising demons in post-Soviet Ukraine : a monastic community and its imagistic practice / Monasteries, politics, and social memory : the revival of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch in Syria during the Twentieth Century / Orthodox-Muslim interactions as "mixed shrines" in Macedonia / Empire dust : the web of relations in Saint George's Festival on Princes Island in Istanbul / Pilgrimages as Kenotic Communities beyond the walls of the church / Avtobusniki : Russian Orthodox pilgrims' longing for authenticity / Indigenous persons and imported individuals : changing paradigms of personal identity in contemporary Greece / Individual and collective identities in Russian Orthodoxy / The Russian Orthodox Church, the provision of social welfare, and changing ethics of benevolence / Epilogue : ex oriente lux, once again / Chris Hann and Hermann Goltz -- Gabriel Hanganu -- Sonja Luehrmann -- Stéphanie Mahieu -- Alice Forbess -- Vlad Naumescu -- Anna Poujeau -- Glenn Bowman -- Maria Couroucli -- Inna Naletova -- Jeanne Kormina -- Renée Hirschon -- Alexander Agadjanian and Kathy Rousselet -- Melissa L. Caldwell -- Douglas Rogers

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