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

ISBN-13: 9781138493896 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 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 context of Orthodox material ecology in Britain. This ethnographic exploration leads to discussion on the role of materials in the construction of religious identity, material understandings of religion, and pathways of pilgrimatic engagement and religious movement across Europe.

 

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.