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The Eastern Church in the Spiritual Marketplace

Author : Amy Slagle
Publisher : Northern Illinois University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501757709
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Eastern Church in the Spiritual Marketplace written by Amy Slagle and published by Northern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like many Americans, the Eastern Orthodox converts in this study are participants in what scholars today refer to as the "spiritual marketplace" or quest culture of expanding religious diversity and individual choice- making that marks the post-World War II American religious landscape. In this highly readable ethnographic study, Slagle explores the ways in which converts, clerics, and lifelong church members use marketplace metaphors in describing and enacting their religious lives. Slagle conducted participant observation and formal semi-structured interviews in Orthodox churches in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Jackson, Mississippi. Known among Orthodox Christians as the "Holy Land" of North American Orthodoxy, Pittsburgh offers an important context for exploring the interplay of Orthodox Christianity with the mainstreams of American religious life. Slagle's second round of research in Jackson sheds light on the American Bible Belt where over the past thirty years the Orthodox Church in America has marshaled significant resources to build mission parishes. Relatively few ethnographic studies have examined Eastern Orthodox Christianity in the United States, and Slagle's book fills a significant gap. This lucidly written book is an ideal selection for courses in the sociology and anthropology of religion, contemporary Christianity, and religious change. Scholars of Orthodox Christianity, as well as clerical and lay people interested in Eastern Orthodoxy, will find this book to be of great appeal.

Turning to Tradition

Author : Oliver Herbel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199324956
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Turning to Tradition written by Oliver Herbel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Christian converts to Orthodoxy who served as exemplars and leaders for convert movements in America during the twentieth century.

Spiritual Marketplace

Author : Wade Clark Roof
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400823080
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Spiritual Marketplace written by Wade Clark Roof and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2001-07-02 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In large chain bookstores the "religion" section is gone and in its place is an expanding number of topics including angels, Sufism, journey, recovery, meditation, magic, inspiration, Judaica, astrology, gurus, Bible, prophesy, evangelicalism, Mary, Buddhism, Catholicism, and esoterica. As Wade Clark Roof notes, such changes over the last two decades reflect a shift away from religion as traditionally understood to more diverse and creative approaches. But what does this splintering of the religious perspective say about Americans? Have we become more interested in spiritual concerns or have we become lost among trends? Do we value personal spirituality over traditional religion and no longer see ourselves united in a larger community of faith? Roof first credited this religious diversity to the baby boomers in his bestselling A Generation of Seekers (1993). He returns to interview many of these people, now in mid-life, to reveal a generation with a unique set of spiritual values--a generation that has altered our historic interpretations of religious beliefs, practices, and symbols, and perhaps even our understanding of the sacred itself. The quest culture created by the baby boomers has generated a "marketplace" of new spiritual beliefs and practices and of revisited traditions. As Roof shows, some Americans are exploring faiths and spiritual disciplines for the first time; others are rediscovering their lost traditions; others are drawn to small groups and alternative communities; and still others create their own mix of values and metaphysical beliefs. Spiritual Marketplace charts the emergence of five subcultures: dogmatists, born-again Christians, mainstream believers, metaphysical believers and seekers, and secularists. Drawing on surveys and in-depth interviews for over a decade, Roof reports on the religious and spiritual styles, family patterns, and moral vision and values for each of these subcultures. The result is an innovative, engaging approach to understanding how religious life is being reshaped as we move into the next century.

Eastern Christianity and Politics in the Twenty-First Century

Author : Lucian N. Leustean
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317818660
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Book Synopsis Eastern Christianity and Politics in the Twenty-First Century by : Lucian N. Leustean

Download or read book Eastern Christianity and Politics in the Twenty-First Century written by Lucian N. Leustean and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-30 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an up-to-date, comprehensive overview of Eastern Christian churches in Europe, the Middle East, America, Africa, Asia and Australia. Written by leading international scholars in the field, it examines both Orthodox and Oriental churches from the end of the Cold War up to the present day. The book offers a unique insight into the myriad church-state relations in Eastern Christianity and tackles contemporary concerns, opportunities and challenges, such as religious revival after the fall of communism; churches and democracy; relations between Orthodox, Catholic and Greek Catholic churches; religious education and monastic life; the size and structure of congregations; and the impact of migration, secularisation and globalisation on Eastern Christianity in the twenty-first century.

The Legitimation Crisis of the Orthodox Church in the United States

Author : Cezara O. Crisan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498562949
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Book Synopsis The Legitimation Crisis of the Orthodox Church in the United States by : Cezara O. Crisan

Download or read book The Legitimation Crisis of the Orthodox Church in the United States written by Cezara O. Crisan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-09-13 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Located at the intersection of the sociology of immigration and sociology of religion, this book discusses the history and identity of Eastern European Orthodox immigrants to the United States, their assimilation into American society, and the contradictory role of the Orthodox Church through the lens of the legitimation crisis.

Living Icons

Author : Michael Plekon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780268033514
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book Living Icons written by Michael Plekon and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate portrait of holiness as exemplified in the lives and thoughts of ten people of faith in the Eastern Orthodox Church. The author introduces readers to a diverse and unusual group of men and women who strove to put the Gospel of Christ into action in their lives.

Chrismation

Author : Nicholas E. Denysenko
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 0814662986
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Chrismation written by Nicholas E. Denysenko and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2014-05-07 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is chrismation? Nicholas Denysenko breaks open chrismation as sacrament of belonging by exploring its history and liturgical theology. This study offers a sacramental theology of chrismation by examining its relationship with baptism and the Eucharist and its function as the ritual for receiving converts into the Orthodox Church. Drawing from a rich array of liturgical and theological sources, Denysenko explains how chrismation initiates the participant into the life of the triune God, beginning a process of theosis, becoming like God. The book includes a chapter comparing and contrasting chrismation and confirmation, along with pastoral suggestions for renewing the potential of this sacrament to transform the lives of participants.

The Greek Orthodox Church in America

Author : Alexander Kitroeff
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501749455
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Greek Orthodox Church in America written by Alexander Kitroeff and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sweeping history, Alexander Kitroeff shows how the Greek Orthodox Church in America has functioned as much more than a religious institution, becoming the focal point in the lives of the country's million-plus Greek immigrants and their descendants. Assuming the responsibility of running Greek-language schools and encouraging local parishes to engage in cultural and social activities, the church became the most important Greek American institution and shaped the identity of Greeks in the United States. Kitroeff digs into these traditional activities, highlighting the American church's dependency on the "mother church," the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Constantinople, and the use of Greek language in the Sunday liturgy. Today, as this rich biography of the church shows us, Greek Orthodoxy remains in between the Old World and the New, both Greek and American.

The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Christianity in the Middle East

Author : Mitri Raheb
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538124181
Total Pages : 711 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Book Synopsis The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Christianity in the Middle East by : Mitri Raheb

Download or read book The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Christianity in the Middle East written by Mitri Raheb and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work represents the current and most relevant content on the studies of how Christianity has fared in the ancient home of its founder and birth. Much has been written about Christianity and how it has survived since its migration out of its homeland but this comprehensive reference work reassesses the geographic and demographic impact of the dramatic changes in this perennially combustible world region. The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Christianity in the Middle East also spans the historical, socio-political and contemporary settings of the region and importantly describes the interactions that Christianity has had with other major/minor religions in the region.

Orthodox and Wesleyan Spirituality

Author : S. T. Kimbrough
Publisher : St Vladimir's Seminary Press
ISBN 13 : 9780881412352
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (123 download)

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Book Synopsis Orthodox and Wesleyan Spirituality by : S. T. Kimbrough

Download or read book Orthodox and Wesleyan Spirituality written by S. T. Kimbrough and published by St Vladimir's Seminary Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1999, on the campus of St. Vladimir's Seminary, leading Orthodox and Methodist scholars, clergy, and laity met to explore the roots of spirituality in both traditions. This volume explores the primary themes addressed at that consultation: holiness and perfection, the impact and influence of the Eastern Church upon John and Charles Wesley- the founders of Methodism- and the common foundational ground upon which the Wesleys and many of the Eastern Fathers stood. While there is much to be done toward establishing the direct channels of influence, the discourses of this volume will serve well the cause of discovering commonalities, as well as differences, in their theology and practice. One will find here foundation stones for building bridges of understanding and the deepening of spirituality.

"Death to the World" and Apocalyptic Theological Aesthetics

Author : Robert Cady Saler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567704483
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (677 download)

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Download or read book "Death to the World" and Apocalyptic Theological Aesthetics written by Robert Cady Saler and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-02 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Saler examines the small but influential Death to the World movement in US Eastern Orthodox Christianity. Presenting a case study in theological aesthetics, Saler demonstrates how a relatively small consumer phenomenon within US Eastern Orthodoxy sits at the centre of a variety of larger questions, including: - The relationship between formal ecclesial and para-church structures - The role of the Internet in modern religiosity - Consumer structures and patterns as constitutive of piety - How theology can help us understand art and vice versa Understanding "Death to the World" as an instance of lived religion tied to questions of identity, politics of religious purity, relationships to capitalism, and concerns over conspiracy theory helps us to see how studies of uniquely American Eastern Orthodox identity must address these broader cultural strands.

Eastern Orthodox Christianity and American Higher Education

Author : Ann Mitsakos Bezzerides
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268101299
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (681 download)

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Book Synopsis Eastern Orthodox Christianity and American Higher Education by : Ann Mitsakos Bezzerides

Download or read book Eastern Orthodox Christianity and American Higher Education written by Ann Mitsakos Bezzerides and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2017-01-15 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last two decades, the American academy has engaged in a wide-ranging discourse on faith and learning, religion and higher education, and Christianity and the academy. Eastern Orthodox Christians, however, have rarely participated in these conversations. The contributors to this volume aim to reverse this trend by offering original insights from Orthodox Christian perspectives that contribute to the ongoing discussion about religion, higher education, and faith and learning in the United States. The book is divided into two parts. Essays in the first part explore the historical experiences and theological traditions that inform (and sometimes explain) Orthodox approaches to the topic of religion and higher education—in ways that often set them apart from their Protestant and Roman Catholic counterparts. Those in the second part problematize and reflect on Orthodox thought and practice from diverse disciplinary contexts in contemporary higher education. The contributors to this volume offer provocative insights into philosophical questions about the relevance and application of Orthodox ideas in the religious and secular academy, as well as cross-disciplinary treatments of Orthodoxy as an identity marker, pedagogical framework, and teaching and research subject.

The Eastern Church in the Western World

Author : William Chauncey Emhardt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Eastern Church in the Western World written by William Chauncey Emhardt and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Icon of the Kingdom of God

Author : Radu Bordeianu
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813236894
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Icon of the Kingdom of God written by Radu Bordeianu and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the Church? Some would answer this question by studying the Scriptures, the history of the Church, and contemporary theologians, thus addressing the theological nature of the Church. Others would answer based on statistics, interviews, and personal observation, thus focusing on the experience of the Church. These theological and experiential perspectives are in tension, or at times even opposed. Whereas the first might speak about the local church as the diocese gathered in the Liturgy presided over by its bishop, the latter would describe the local church as the parish community celebrating the Liturgy together with the parish priest, never experiencing a sole liturgy that gathers an entire diocese around its bishop. Whereas a theologian might abstractly describe the Church as a reflection of the Trinity, a regular church-member might concretely experience the Church as a community that manifests the Kingdom of God in its outreach ministries. Radu Bordeianu attempts to bring these two perspectives together, starting from the concrete experience of the Church, engaging this experience with the theological tradition of the Church, extracting ecclesiological principles from this combined approach, and then highlighting concrete situations that reflect those standards or proposing correctives, when necessary. Without pretending to be a complete Orthodox ecclesiology, Icon of the Kingdom of God addresses the most important topics related to the Church. It progresses according to one's experience of the Church from baptism, to the family, parish, Liturgy, and priesthood, followed by analyses of synodality and nationality. Arguing that the Church is an icon of the Kingdom of God, this volume brings together the past theological heritage and the present experience of the Church while having three methodological characteristics: experiential, Kingdom-centered, and ecumenical.

Women and Religiosity in Orthodox Christianity

Author : Ina Merdjanova
Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 : 0823298639
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Women and Religiosity in Orthodox Christianity written by Ina Merdjanova and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women and Religiosity in Orthodox Christianity fills a significant gap in the sociology of religious practice: Studies focused on women’s religiosity have overlooked Orthodox populations, while studies of Orthodox practice (operating within the dominant theological, historical, and sociological framework) have remained gender-blind. The essays in this collection shed new light on the women who make up a considerable majority of the Orthodox population by engaging women’s lifeworlds, practices, and experiences in relation to their religion in multiple, varied localities, discussing both contemporary and pre-1989 developments. These contributions critically engage the pluralist and changing character of Orthodox institutional and social life by using feminist epistemologies and drawing on original ethnographic research to account for Orthodox women’s previously ignored perspectives, knowledges, and experiences. Combining the depth of ethnographic analysis with geographical breadth and employing a variety of research methodologies, this book expands our understanding of Orthodox Christianity by examining Orthodox women of diverse backgrounds in different settings: parishes, monasteries, and the secular spaces of everyday life, and under shifting historical conditions and political regimes. In defiance of claims that Orthodox Christianity is immutable and fixed in time, these essays argue that continuity and transformation can be found harmoniously in social practices, demographic trends, and larger material contexts at the intersection between gender, Orthodoxy, and locality. Contributors: Kristin Aune, Milica Bakić-Hayden, Maria Bucur, Ketevan Gurchiani, James Kapaló, Helena Kupari, Ina Merdjanova, Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, Eleni Sotiriou, Tatiana Tiaynen-Qadir, Detelina Tocheva

Orthodox Christianity and Gender

Author : Helena Kupari
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351329863
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Orthodox Christianity and Gender written by Helena Kupari and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Orthodox Christian tradition has all too often been sidelined in conversations around contemporary religion. Despite being distinct from Protestantism and Catholicism in both theology and practice, it remains an underused setting for academic inquiry into current lived religious practice. This collection, therefore, seeks to redress this imbalance by investigating modern manifestations of Orthodox Christianity through an explicitly gender-sensitive gaze. By addressing attitudes to gender in this context, it fills major gaps in the literature on both religion and gender. Starting with the traditional teachings and discourses around gender in the Orthodox Church, the book moves on to demonstrate the diversity of responses to those narratives that can be found among Orthodox populations in Europe and North America. Using case studies from several countries, with both large and small Orthodox populations, contributors use an interdisciplinary approach to address how gender and religion interact in contexts such as, iconography, conversion, social activism and ecumenical relations, among others. From Greece and Russia to Finland and the USA, this volume sheds new light on the myriad ways in which gender is manifested, performed, and engaged within contemporary Orthodoxy. Furthermore, it also demonstrates that employing the analytical lens of gender enables new insights into Orthodox Christianity as a lived tradition. It will, therefore, be of great interest to scholars of both Religious Studies and Gender Studies.

Orthodox Christian Material Culture

Author : Timothy Carroll
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351027042
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Orthodox Christian Material Culture written by Timothy Carroll and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although much has been written on the making of art objects as a means of engaging in creative productions of the self (most famously Alfred Gell’s work), there has been very little written on Orthodox Christianity and its use of material within religious self-formation. Eastern Orthodox Christianity is renowned for its artistry and the aesthetics of its worship being an integral part of devout practice. Yet this is an area with little ethnographic exploration available and even scarcer ethnographic attention given to the material culture of Eastern Christianity outside the traditional ‘homelands’ of the greater Levant and Eastern Europe. Drawing from and building upon Gell’s work, Carroll explores the uses and purposes of material culture in Eastern Orthodox Christian worship. Drawing on three years of ethnographic fieldwork in a small Antiochian Orthodox parish in London, Carroll focusses on a study of ecclesiastical fabric but places this within the wider context of Orthodox material ecology in Britain. This ethnographic exploration leads to discussion of the role of materials in the construction of religious identity, material understandings of religion, and pathways of pilgrimatic engagement and religious movement across Europe. In a religious tradition characterised by repetition and continuity, but also as sensuously tactile, this book argues that material objects are necessary for the continual production of Orthodox Christians as art-like subjects. It is an important contribution to the corpus of literature on the anthropology of material culture and art and the anthropology of religion.