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Bishop Youannis
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This anthropological work thoroughly illustrates the novel
synthesis of Christian religion and New Age spirituality in Greece.
It challenges the single-faith approach that traditionally ties
southern European countries to Christianity and focuses on how
processes of globalization influence and transform vernacular
religiosity. Based on long-term anthropological fieldwork in
Greece, this book demonstrates how the popular belief in the 'evil
eye' produces a creative affinity between religion and spirituality
in everyday practice. The author analyses a variety of significant
research themes, including lived and vernacular religion,
alternative spirituality and healing, ritual performance and
religious material culture. The book offers an innovative social
scientific interpretation of contemporary religiosity, while
engaging with a multiplicity of theoretical, analytic and empirical
directions. It contributes to current key debates in social
sciences with regard to globalization and secularization, religious
pluralism, contemporary spirituality and the New Age movement,
gender, power and the body, health, illness and alternative
therapeutic systems, senses, perception and the supernatural, the
spiritual marketplace, creativity and the individualization of
religion in a multicultural world.
This revised edition includes a new epilogue, "Coming up on
Twenty-Five Years" since the entry of the Evangelical Orthodox into
the Holy Orthodox Church. This is the story of a handful of
courageous men and their congregations who risked stable
occupations, security and the approval of life-long friends to be
obedient to God's call.It is also the story of every believer who
is searching for the Church. Where Christ is Lord. Where holiness,
human responsibility, and the sovereignty of God are preached.
Where fellowship is more than a covered-dish supper in the church
basement. And where fads and fashions take a backseat to apostolic
worship and doctrine.This is a book, for Orthodox Christians,
looking for ways to bring new life to their own Churches. It's also
a book for those completely dissatisfied--those on their own
search. And it's a book for Orthodox Christians, looking for
renewal.
This book explores the Romanian Orthodox Church's arguments on
national identity to legitimize its own place in a post-communist
Romania. The work traces the clergy's deployment of the concepts of
Christian Orthodoxy and Latin legacy as part of an uncharted
constellation of arguments in contemporary intellectual history. A
survey of public intellectuals' opinions on national identity
complements the Church's views. The investigation attempts to offer
an insight into the Church's efforts to re-assert itself, given
free rein in a post-dictatorial world of accelerated modernization.
After clarifying and surveying the Church's claims on institutional
and national identity, the book then also explores the secular
ideas on the subject. The subsequent analysis treats this material
as "speech acts" (statements doing, not only saying, something)
which are occasionally out of sync. Against a background of
secularization, the Church's rhetoric articulates a distinct line
of thought in the post-89 intellectual landscape.
Focusing on one of Russia's most powerful and wide-reaching
institutions in a period of shattering dynastic crisis and immense
territorial and administrative expansion, this book addresses
manifestations of religious thought, practice, and artifacts
revealing the permeability of political boundaries and fluid
transfers of ideas, texts, people, objects, and "sacred spaces"
with the rest of the Christian world. The historical background to
the establishment Russia's Patriarchate, its chief religious
authority, in various eparchies from Late Antiquity sets the stage.
"The Tale of the Establishment of the Patriarchate," crucial for
legitimizing and promoting both this institution and close
cooperation with the established tetrarchy of Eastern Orthodox
patriarchs emerged in the 1620s. Their attitude remained mixed,
however, with persisting unease concerning Russian pretensions to
equality. Regarding the most crucial "other" for Christianity's
self-identification, the contradictions inherent in Christianity's
appropriation of the Old Testament became apparent in, for example,
the realm's imperfectly enforced ban on resident Jews. The concept
of ordained royalty emerged in the purported co-rulership of the
initial Romanov Tsar Michael and his father, Patriarch Filaret. As
a pertinent foil to Moscow's patriarchs, challenges arose from
Petro Mohyla, a metropolitan of the then totally separate Kievan
church, whose Academy became the most important educational
institution for the Russian Orthodox Church into the eighteenth
century, combining a Romanian regal, Polish aristocratic, and
Ukrainian Orthodox self-identity.
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