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Orthodox Christian Material Culture - Of People and Things in the Making of Heaven (Paperback)
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Orthodox Christian Material Culture - Of People and Things in the Making of Heaven (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology
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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.
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