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1 online resource. |
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Routledge studies in religion |
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Routledge studies in religion.
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Summary |
Christian Orthodox Migrants in Western Europe: Secularization and Modernity through the Lens of the Gift Paradigm explores a religious community that has been getting increasing scholarly attention. While most of the literature in the field looks at this religious tradition in terms of its alleged inability to come to terms with modernity - due to its specific religious institutions, practices and dogma - this book takes a step back from such Western-centered and Protestant-biased analysis of religion. It addresses Orthodoxy's recent encounter with the West, modernity and secularization in the process of post-communist migrations from Eastern Europe, revealing the complicated identity redefinition and re-compositions of a religious group that highly values continuity, tradition and ethnic/national belonging. Using socio-anthropological qualitative research on Romanian, Russian, Greek and Serbian Orthodox migrants in Western Europe in a comparative perspective, this volume grasps the interplay between the institutional and the individually lived aspects of religion in their relation to the increasingly secular "conditions of belief" in Western European host countries. This book is important for those studying or researching Orthodox Christianity, religion and migration, secularization and modernity, as well as those in related disciplines such as sociology, anthropology of religion, religious studies, political science, migration studies and cultural studies. |
Biography |
Maria H̃mmerli is an Advanced Researcher and Lecturer currently associated with the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. |
Local Note |
Taylor & Francis Taylor & Francis eBooks: Open Access |
Subject |
Orthodox Eastern Church -- Switzerland -- History.
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Orthodox Eastern Church. (OCoLC)fst00510210
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Immigrants -- Switzerland.
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Orthodox Eastern Church members -- Religious life -- Switzerland.
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Postmodernism -- Religious aspects -- Orthodox Eastern Church.
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RELIGION / Christianity / Orthodox Churches.
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Immigrants. (OCoLC)fst00967712
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Orthodox Eastern Church members -- Religious life.
(OCoLC)fst01899994
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Postmodernism -- Religious aspects -- Orthodox Eastern Church.
(OCoLC)fst02017500
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Switzerland. (OCoLC)fst01205401
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Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Other Form: |
Print version: 1032266953 9781032266954 (OCoLC)1311570409 |
ISBN |
9781000737783 electronic book |
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1000737780 electronic book |
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9781003289548 electronic book |
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1003289541 electronic book |
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9781000737806 electronic book |
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1000737802 electronic book |
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1032266953 |
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9781032266954 |
Standard No. |
10.4324/b22874 doi |
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