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Modes of Religiosity in Eastern Christianity

Religious Processes and Social Change in Ukraine

By: Vlad Naumescu

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Modes of Religiosity in Eastern Christianity

Religious Processes and Social Change in Ukraine

By: Vlad Naumescu

This volume offers original insights into the religious transformations taking place in postsocialist western Ukraine. Applying a cognitive theory based on two modes of religiosity, the doctrinal and the imagistic, author Vlad Naumescu reveals the mechanisms of reproduction and change that make the local eastern Christian tradition a living tradition of faith. He combines rich ethnographic materials with historical and theological sources to depict a religion in equilibrium between the two modes, maintaining revelation at the core of its doctrinal corpus. He argues that religion is a potential source for social change that empowers people to act upon reality and transform it. With his innovative exploration of the dynamics of an eastern Christian tradition, Naumescu makes a major contribution to the emerging anthropology of Christianity as well as to studies of postsocialism.

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Praying with the Senses

Contemporary Orthodox Christian Spirituality in Practice

By: Vlad Naumescu,Jeffers Engelhardt,Angie Heo,Jeanne Kormina,Tom Boylston,Daria Dubovka,Simion Pop

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Praying with the Senses

Contemporary Orthodox Christian Spirituality in Practice

By: Vlad Naumescu,Jeffers Engelhardt,Angie Heo,Jeanne Kormina,Tom Boylston,Daria Dubovka,Simion Pop

“These essays advance the understanding of Eastern Orthodox spiritual practices from a religious studies perspective.”—Reading Religion How do people experience spirituality through what they see, hear, touch, and smell? In this book, Sonja Luehrmann and an international group of scholars assess how sensory experience shapes prayer and ritual practice among Eastern Orthodox Christians. Prayer, even when performed privately, is considered as a shared experience and act that links individuals and personal beliefs with a broader, institutional, or imagined faith community. It engages with material, visual, and aural culture including icons, relics, candles, pilgrimage, bells, and architectural spaces. Whether touching upon the use of icons in the age of digital and electronic media, the impact of Facebook on prayer in Ethiopia, or the implications of praying using recordings, amplifiers, and loudspeakers, these timely essays present a sophisticated overview of the history of Eastern Orthodox Christianities. Taken as a whole they reveal prayer as a dynamic phenomenon in the devotional and ritual lives of Eastern Orthodox believers across Eastern Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia. “Precisely by looking at so varied a group of locations home to Orthodox practice, this book conveys the fragility―and durability―of traditional religion in a postmodern, secular age.”—Nadieszda Kizenko, author of A Prodigal Saint: Father John of Kronstadt and the Russian People

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Modes of Religiosity in Eastern Christianity

Religious Processes and Social Change in Ukraine

By: Vlad Naumescu

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Religious Processes and Social Change in Ukraine

By: Vlad Naumescu

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382589908X

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Praying with the Senses

Contemporary Orthodox Christian Spirituality in Practice

By: Vlad Naumescu,Jeffers Engelhardt,Angie Heo,Jeanne Kormina,Tom Boylston,Daria Dubovka,Simion Pop

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Praying with the Senses

Contemporary Orthodox Christian Spirituality in Practice

By: Vlad Naumescu,Jeffers Engelhardt,Angie Heo,Jeanne Kormina,Tom Boylston,Daria Dubovka,Simion Pop

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Modes of Religiosity in Eastern Christianity

Modes of Religiosity in Eastern Christianity

Praying with the Senses

Praying with the Senses

Modes of Religiosity in Eastern Christianity

Modes of Religiosity in Eastern Christianity

Praying with the Senses

Praying with the Senses

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