Anthropologies of orthodox christianity : theology, politics, ethics / Candace Lukasik and Sarah Riccardi-Swarz, editors.
| Other author | Lukasik, Candace editor. |
| Other author | Riccardi-Swartz, Sarah editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | New York : Fordham University Press, [2026] |
| Copyright Date | ©2026 |
| Description | xii, 296 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Orthodox christianity and contemporary thought Orthodox Christianity and contemporary thought. ^A1191341 |
| Contents | Foreword / Sonja Thomas -- Introduction: Thinking About Orthodox Christianity in an Anthropological Perspective / Candace Lukasik and Sarah Riccardi-Swartz -- Part I. Living Theology and Anthropological Theories -- 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 -- Part II. Social Transformation and Orthodox Theologies -- 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 -- Part III. Theological Anxieties and Cultural Constructions / 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 -- Afterword / Angie Heo |
| Abstract | "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"-- Publisher's website. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN | 153151197X hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781531511975 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1531511988 paperback |
| ISBN | 9781531511982 paperback |
| Standard identifier# | CIPO000296793 |
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