Eastern Christians in anthropological perspective [Texte imprimé] / edited by Chris Hann and Hermann Goltz

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

Notes bibliogr.

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