Like many Americans, the Eastern Orthodox converts in this study areparticipants in what scholars today refer to as the "spiritual marketplace"or quest culture of expanding religious diversity and individual choice-making that marks the post-World War II American religious landscape.In this highly readable ethnographic study, Slagle explores the ways inwhich converts, clerics, and lifelong church members use marketplacemetaphors in describing and enacting their religious lives.Slagle conducted participant observation and formal semi-structuredinterviews in Orthodox churches in Pittsburgh,...