Orthodox Christianity, new age spirituality and vernacular religion: the evil eye in Greece

1. Introduction -- 2. The New Age of Greek Religiosity: Orthodox Christianity and Beyond -- 3. Matiasma : the Energetic Interplay of Senses and Emotions -- 4. Ksematiasma : Healing, Power, Performance -- 5. Creative Syntheses through Material Culture: the Evil Eye in the Spiritual Marketplace -- 6....

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Autore principale: Roussou, Eugenia (Autore)
Tipo di documento: Elettronico Libro
Lingua:Inglese
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Pubblicazione: London [England] Bloomsbury Academic 2021
In:Anno: 2021
Edizione:First edition
Periodico/Rivista:Bloomsbury advances in religious studies
Altre parole chiave:B Orthodox Eastern Church (Greece)
B Folklore, myths & legends
B New Age movement (Greece)
B Electronic books
B Greece Religione
B Christianity and other religions New Age movement
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Edizione parallela:Erscheint auch als: 9781350225398
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Riepilogo:1. Introduction -- 2. The New Age of Greek Religiosity: Orthodox Christianity and Beyond -- 3. Matiasma : the Energetic Interplay of Senses and Emotions -- 4. Ksematiasma : Healing, Power, Performance -- 5. Creative Syntheses through Material Culture: the Evil Eye in the Spiritual Marketplace -- 6. The Pluralistic Landscape of Greek Religiosity: Religion and Spirituality at a Global Age -- 7. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
"This anthropological work thoroughly illustrates the novel synthesis of Christian religion and New Age spirituality in Greece. It challenges the single-faith approach that traditionally ties southern European countries to Christianity and focuses on how processes of globalization influence and transform vernacular religiosity. Based on long-term anthropological fieldwork in Greece, this book demonstrates how the popular belief in the 'evil eye' produces a creative affinity between religion and spirituality in everyday practice. The author analyses a variety of significant research themes, including lived and vernacular religion, alternative spirituality and healing, ritual performance and religious material culture. The book offers an innovative social scientific interpretation of contemporary religiosity, while engaging with a multiplicity of theoretical, analytic and empirical directions. It contributes to current key debates in social sciences with regard to globalization and secularization, religious pluralism, contemporary spirituality and the New Age movement, gender, power and the body, health, illness and alternative therapeutic systems, senses, perception and the supernatural, the spiritual marketplace, creativity and the individualization of religion in a multicultural world"--
Descrizione del documento:Includes bibliographical references and index
Tipo di documento:Mode of access: World Wide Web.
ISBN:135015282X
Accesso:Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to individual document purchasers
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.5040/9781350152823