Cosmos, Life, and Liturgy in a Greek Orthodox Village - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cosmos, Life, and Liturgy in a Greek Orthodox Village write by Juliet Du Boulay. This book was released on 2009. Cosmos, Life, and Liturgy in a Greek Orthodox Village available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1974 Juliet du Boulay published her first work, "Portrait of a Greek Mountain Village", now considered a classic text for the anthropology of Modern Greece. This sequel, the fruit of a lifetime’s reflection, adds new dimensions to this portrait, exploring the all-encompassing religious awareness of the same village community, and its rootedness in both Orthodox Christian and pre- or non-Christian ideas and practices. The story is told through a steady development of rich ethnographic detail in which the people come to life in all their vitality, contradictoriness, humour, realism and courage. From the particularities of life in the village a picture is built up in which the Byzantine legacy intertwines with fragments of antiquity, both Greek and Jewish, and with the universal themes, both tragic and hopeful, which confront man as he struggles to make sense of life. In this way a compelling pattern of symbols and images is revealed which underpin every action and event in the human and natural spheres, and is described here lucidly, convincingly and with great affection -- Publisher description
Introducing Eastern Orthodox Theology
Introducing Eastern Orthodox Theology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Introducing Eastern Orthodox Theology write by Andrew Louth. This book was released on 2013-10-11. Introducing Eastern Orthodox Theology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With an estimated 250 million adherents, the Orthodox Church is the second largest Christian body in the world. This absorbing account of the essential elements of Eastern Orthodox thought deals with the Trinity, Christ, sin, humanity, and creation as well as praying, icons, the sacraments and liturgy.
The Cambridge Companion to Christianity and the Environment
The Cambridge Companion to Christianity and the Environment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge Companion to Christianity and the Environment write by Alexander J. B. Hampton. This book was released on 2022-08-04. The Cambridge Companion to Christianity and the Environment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Christianity has understood the environment as a gift to nurture and steward, a book of divine revelation disclosing the divine mind, a wild garden in need of cultivation and betterment, and as a resource for the creation of a new Eden. This Cambridge Companion details how Christianity, one of the world's most important religions, has shaped one of the existential issues of our age, the environment. Engaging with contemporary issues, including gender, traditional knowledge, and enchantment, it brings together the work of international scholars on the subject of Christianity and the Environment from a diversity of fields. Together, their work offers a comprehensive guide to the complex relationship between Christianity and the environment that moves beyond disciplinary boundaries. To do this, the volume explains the key concepts concerning Christianity and the environment, outlines the historical development of this relationship from antiquity to the present, and explores important contemporary issues.
The Practice of the Presence of God
The Practice of the Presence of God - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Practice of the Presence of God write by Martin Laird. This book was released on 2016-11-29. The Practice of the Presence of God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Exploring the unity of the practice of prayer and the practice of theology, this book draws together insights from world-class theologians including Rowan Williams, Andrew Louth, Frances Young, Margaret R. Miles, Sebastian Brock, and Nicholaï Sakharov. Offering glimpses of the prayer-life and witness that undergirds theological endeavour, some authors approach the topic in a deeply personal way while others express the unity of prayer and the theologian in a traditionally scholarly manner. No matter what the denomination of the Christian theologian - Greek or Russian Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Anglican, Methodist - authors demonstrate that the discipline of theology cannot properly be practiced apart from the prayer life of the theologian. The prayer of the theologian shapes her or his approach to theology. Whether it be preaching, teaching, writing or research, the deep soundings of prayer inform and embrace all.
Orthodox Christian Material Culture
Orthodox Christian Material Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Orthodox Christian Material Culture write by Timothy Carroll. This book was released on 2018-05-15. Orthodox Christian Material Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Although much has been written on the making of art objects as a means of engaging in creative productions of the self (most famously Alfred Gell’s work), there has been very little written on Orthodox Christianity and its use of material within religious self-formation. Eastern Orthodox Christianity is renowned for its artistry and the aesthetics of its worship being an integral part of devout practice. Yet this is an area with little ethnographic exploration available and even scarcer ethnographic attention given to the material culture of Eastern Christianity outside the traditional ‘homelands’ of the greater Levant and Eastern Europe. Drawing from and building upon Gell’s work, Carroll 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 of the role of materials in the construction of religious identity, material understandings of religion, and pathways of pilgrimatic engagement and religious movement across Europe. In a religious tradition characterised by repetition and continuity, but also as sensuously tactile, this book argues that material objects are necessary for the continual production of Orthodox Christians as art-like subjects. It is an important contribution to the corpus of literature on the anthropology of material culture and art and the anthropology of religion.
