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Arethae Archiepiscopi Caesariensis Scripta Minora. Volumen I (Bibliotheca Teubneriana)
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Witchcraft is very much alive in today's post-communist societies. Stemming from ancient rural traditions and influenced by modern New Age concepts, it has kept its function as a vibrant cultural code to combat the adversities of everyday life. Intricately linked to the Orthodox church and its rituals, the magic discourse serves as a recourse for those in distress, a mechanism to counter-balance misfortune and, sometimes, a powerful medium for acts of aggression. Alexandra Tataran re-contextualizes the vast and heterogenuous discourse on contemporary witchcraft. She shows how magic, divination, and religious rituals are adapted to the complex mechanisms of modern mentalities and urban living in the specific historical and social context of post-communist countries. Based on years of first-hand fieldwork, Tataran offers insights into the experience of individuals deeming themselves bewitched and argues that the practice can also teach us a lot about particular forms of adapting traditions and resorting to pre-existing cultural models.
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"How well are Orthodox Churches listening and responding to the changing cultures they are living in? And in these new conditions what does it mean to be faithful to the inner life of the Church, while being engaged "for the life of the world"? These are the main underlying questions the papers here are attempting to address. One of the particular aims of this collection has been to give readers unfamiliar with Orthodox Christianity a set of articles that are at once both academically rigorous and also convey the inner dimension of the Church. This means that a number of these scholars are participants in as well as observers of Orthodox life, and can therefore attempt to translate for outsiders that mysterious personal dimension that is at the heart of any religion, and without which descriptions are incomplete".
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Theology --- Orthodox Eastern Church --- Orthodox Eastern Church. --- Christianity
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War --- Religious aspects --- Orthodox Eastern Church. --- Orthodox Eastern Church --- Doctrines.
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Theology --- Orthodox Eastern Church --- Orthodox Eastern Church --- Orthodox Eastern Church. --- Doctrines
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Christianity --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Orthodox Eastern Church
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Using research on Eastern European migrants, this volume examines Orthodox Christianity’s recent encounter with the West, modernity and secularization, and is important for scholars of Orthodox Christianity and religion and migration, as well as those in disciplines such as sociology, political science, migration studies.
Postmodernism --- Orthodox Eastern Church members --- Immigrants --- Religious aspects --- Orthodox Eastern Church. --- Religious life. --- Orthodox Eastern Church --- History. --- Eastern Orthodox people --- Orthodox (Orthodox Eastern Church) --- Orthodox people --- Christians
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