Anthropologies of Orthodox Christianity : Theology, Politics, Ethics.

Anthropologically explores the entanglement of theology and politics among contemporary Orthodox Christians Much of the anthropological literature on Christianity tends to concentrate on Protestants and Catholics in the Global South.

Bibliographic Details
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2025.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Series Editors
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • 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
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Contributors
  • Index
  • Series List