Timothy Carroll

Orthodox Christian Material Culture

Of People and Things in the Making of Heaven

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 313g
• ISBN-13: 9780367590550
• ISBN-10: 0367590557
• Artikelnr.: 69890927

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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