Orthodox Christian Material Culture: Of People and Things in the Making of Heaven

ISBN-13: 9780367590550 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 196 str.

Timothy Carroll

Opis

Drawing from and building upon Gell’s work, Carroll comprehensively 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 conte

Spis treści

Prologue; Introduction; Part I – People and place; Chapter 1: British Orthodoxy; Chapter 2: Coming to the Orthodox temple; Chapter 3: Here and There; Part II – Materials; Chapter 4: Making sacred space; Chapter 5: Materials of transformation; Chapter 6: Materials of ikonicity; Part III – Making heaven; Chapter 7: Becoming an ikon; Chapter 8: Ikonicity; Chapter 9: Becoming Orthodox, making heaven; Epilogue: All Saints Barking of the Spice Rack; Diagram of St Æthelwald’s Parish Church; Bibliography; Glossary; Index

O autorze

Timothy Carroll is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology, University College London, UK.