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Time, Religion, and Social Experience in Rural Greece

by: Hart, L.K.

Price: 195,00 EURO

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Category: Modern Greece
Code: 28413
ISBN-13: 9780847676873 / 978-0-8476-7687-3
ISBN-10: 0847676870 / 0-8476-7687-0
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Publication Date: 1992
Publication Place: Lanham, Maryland
Binding: Cloth
Pages: 292
Book Condition: New
Comments: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches

 Based on extensive fieldwork in rural Greece, this is a study of Orthodox Christian practice in rural Greece with a focus on the interaction between religious imagination and everyday life, offering a cross-disciplinary analysis of the structure and social reproduction of Greek religion.

Contents:
Some General Notes on the Church. Greece and the Problem of a National History. Village "Tradition" and "Popular" Religion. Memory. Kinship and Religious Ideology. Religion and Gender
1: Zarakas: Environs and History. Ancient History. Medieval History: Monemvasia. Ethnicity: Albanian Settlement. Zarakas: Settlement. Surnames and Kinship. Arvanitika
2: Village Life and Livelihood. Richia. Livelihood and Production. Life in Richia in the 1980s. Hierarchies. The War. Emigration, Nostalgia, and Return
3: Orthodox Piety: The Canon. The Structure of the Liturgy. The Monastery of Iera Mone. The Priests and the Nuns. Sins, Errors, and the Fundamentals of Orthodoxy
4: Ritual and Fate. Baptism. Marriage. The Foundation Ceremony. Death. A Death at Richia
5: Ordinary Practices. The Church and the House. Measures of Protection. The Attachment of Women to Religion and the "Place" of Women. Magic, the Evil Eye, and the Cups
6: The Family, the Individual, and Others. Kinship and the Problem of Intimacy. The Family and Others
7: The Saints. The Saints and Human Society. Stories About Saints and Other Religious Heroes
8: The Ritual Calendar. The Bases of the Calendar. The General Structure of the Orthodox Year. The Life Cycles of Divine Persons. Feast and Fast. The Calendar in Zarakas. Work and Leisure. Festivals: The Panegyria


Subjects:
1900-1999
Alltag
Eglise orthodoxe grecque Histoire 20e siècle
Église orthodoxe Grèce Richiá, Région de Histoire 20e siècle
Greece Rēchia Region
Grèce Vie religieuse
Grieks-Orthodoxe Kerk
History
Kerk en maatschappij
Orthodox Eastern Church
Orthodox Eastern Church Greece Richea Region History 20th century
Orthodox Greece Richea History 20th century
Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados
Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados Greece Richea Region History 20th century
Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados Grèce Richiá, Région de Histoire 20e siècle
Orthodoxos Greece Richea History 20th century
Religiöses Leben
Richea Region (Greece) Religious life and customs
Richea Religious life and customs
Richiá, Région de (Grèce) Vie religieuse
Zarax Region

xviii, 292 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

 

 
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Time, Religion, and Social Experience in Rural Greece

by: Hart, L.K.

  • ISBN-13: 9780847676873 / 978-0-8476-7687-3
  • ISBN-03: 0847676870 / 0-8476-7687-0
  • Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland, 1992

Price: 195,00 EURO

1 copy in stock