Kinetics of Healing: Protestant Women Pledging Baptism in Saydnaya Orthodox Monastery

Nasrallah, Rima; Berg, Heleen Murre-van den; Barnard, Marcel

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“…These Lebanese women come originally from Antiochian Orthodox Churches, also known as Greek Orthodox or Rūm Orthodox Church (Atiyyeh 2005, Hunt 2007 or Maronite Churches (Galadza 2007 2010), and by marriage to men from the Reformed Church they join a Lebanese Protestant Church. Joining the Reformed Church, they never completely leave their mother church, nor do they convert to the new tradition, but they keep physically and virtually moving between the two, and in between the two or three traditions (Nasrallah et al 2012, Nasrallah and. In their hybrid situation, these women bring many different traditions into creative combinations and form their own personalized liturgical world while still operating within the established churches.…”

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Rearranging Things: How Protestant attitudes shake the objects in the piety of Eastern Christian Women

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This article considers the objects in the piety of Lebanese women who originally come from Antiochian Orthodox and Maronite traditions and who by marriage join the Protestant Church. Objects that are normally inconspicuous -even "invisible" -in their faith collide with Protestant attitudes and are shaken by dissonant theological concepts. Yet these objects and images retain something of the holy in them and the women hesitate about their total elimination. In this murky situation, things are de-familiarized and yet re-emerge as active, flexible agents with which individual theologies are written and connections are achieved. It explains how the things that furnish the lives of these women are shifted and re-centered rather than destroyed or eliminated.

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