Armenian Christianity Today: Identity Politics and Popular Practice

ISBN-13: 9781138548879 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 288 str.

Alexander Agadjanian

Opis

Armenian Christianity Today examines contemporary religious life and the social, political, and cultural functions of religion in the post-Soviet Republic of Armenia and in the Armenian Diaspora worldwide. Scholars from a range of countries and disciplines explore current trends and everyday religiosity, particularly within the Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC), and amongst Armenian Catholics, Protestants and vernacular religions.

Spis treści

Introduction Alexander Agadjanian  PART I:　The Republic of Armenia: Religious Revival and Renewal  1 "One Nation, One Faith, One Church": The Armenian Apostolic Church and the Ethno-Religion in Post-Soviet Armenia Konrad Siekierski  2 Church, God and Society: Toward the Anthropology of Church Construction in Armenia Yulia Antonyan  3 Where Did We Come From? Creationism versus Evolution in Armenian Public Schools  Satenik Mkrtchyan  4 The Religious Modernity of the Brotherhood: A New Face of Armenian Grassroots Christianity Alexander Agadjanian  5 Evangelical and Pentecostal Communities in Armenia: Negotiating Identity and Accommodation  Anna Ohanjanyan  PART II: Armenian Diasporas: Puzzles of Identity  6 Identity, Borders and Religious Belonging: Armenians between Two Spiritual Centers, Etchmiadzin and Cilicia Hovhannes Hovhannisyan  7 Venerating the Saints, Remembering the City: Armenian Memorial Practices and Community Formation in Contemporary Istanbul Christopher Sheklian  8 The Three Religions of Armenians in Lebanon Irina Papkova  9 The Chronotopes of the Armenian Diaspora in Romania: Religious Feasts and Shrines in the Making of Community Konrad Siekierski  10 Armenians in St. Petersburg: Belonging to the Church as a Key Marker of Ethnic Identity Anatolii Tokmantcev  11 Finger on the Pulse: Armenian Identity and Religiosity in Southern California Dyron Daughrity and Nicholas Cumming  12 Sanctuary, Community or Museum? The Apostolic Church in the Life-Worlds of a Sample of American Armenians
Sara Kärkkäinen Terian

O autorze

Alexander Agadjanian is a professor at the Center for the Study of Religion at the Russian State University for Humanities and has taught at a number of institutions in Russia, central Europe and the USA. His research interests include a wide range of topics on religion and modernity, approached from historical, sociological and anthropological perspectives. His areas of specialization have been first Southeast Asia and later post-Soviet Eastern Europe and Eurasia. He edited a few books in Russian, including a volume on religion and secularism; on current religious practices in Russia; and the studies of Russian Orthodox congregations. He was a co-editor of the volume ’Eastern Orthodoxy in a Global Age’ (AltaMira Press, 2006) and of a special issue ’Evangelical, Pentecostal and Charismatic Churches in Latin America and Eastern Europe.’ (Religion, State and Society, Vol. 40 (1), 2012).