Orthodox Christianity as a transnational religion: theoretical, historical and comparative considerations

Roudometof, Victor

doi:10.1080/09637494.2015.1092230

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“…Growing research has attempted to address the global and transnational character of Orthodox Christianity [4,6,25]. The argument here draws on Roudometof's account of Orthodox Christianity, as historical glocalization that comprises processes of indigenization, vernacularization, nationalization, and transnationalization [2].…”

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“…Something like that, but it makes no sense, you know [45]. 4 Thus, cognitive engagement with aspects of the language of the liturgy is linked to sensorial and embodied experiences. Some attend liturgy in archaic languages that they don't understand, but nevertheless feel connected to the church service through the 'beauty' of the language.…”

Section: Liturgy and Languagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…On the other hand, Orthodox churches in the USA are mostly diasporic churches, where this religion functions as a 'cultural marker' that implies belonging to a certain national or ethnic group, whether Greek, Serbian, or Russian versions of Orthodoxy ( [2], p. 122). This is also the case in Western Europe, for instance, in Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway [3,4]. This situation led to the scholarly categorization of national vs diasporic Orthodox churches in contemporary research [2,[4][5][6].…”

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“…This is also the case in Western Europe, for instance, in Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway [3,4]. This situation led to the scholarly categorization of national vs diasporic Orthodox churches in contemporary research [2,[4][5][6].…”

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Glocal Religion and Feeling at Home: Ethnography of Artistry in Finnish Orthodox Liturgy

Tiaynen-Qadir

2017

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This paper adapts a glocalization framework in a transnational, anthropological exploration of liturgy in the Orthodox Church of Finland (OCF). It draws on long-term ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with participants of liturgy from Finnish, Russian, and Greek cultural and linguistic backgrounds. The main argument of the paper is that generic processes of nationalization and transnationalization are not mutually exclusive in practitioners' experiences of liturgy in OCF, but rather generate a glocal space that incorporates Finnish, Russian, Karelian, and Byzantine elements. Individuals artistically engage with glocal liturgy on sensorial, cognitive, social, and semantic levels. What is important for the participants is a therapeutic sense that comes from a feeling of 'being at home', metaphorically, spiritually, and literally. People's ongoing, creative work constitutes Orthodoxy as their national and transnational home.

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Glocal Religion and Feeling at Home: Ethnography of Artistry in Finnish Orthodox Liturgy

Tiaynen-Qadir

2017

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“…First, since the 19th century, hundreds of thousands of Orthodox Christians have migrated to new overseas destinations (Australia, Canada and, most importantly, the United States). Second, after the end of World War II and also after the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, another far more silent and less well-documented migration wave directed hundreds of thousands of Orthodox immigrants into Western Europe (for overviews, see [93,94]). In both cases, the result was the creation of parishes and communities connecting the immigrants back to their original homeland and their mother churches.…”

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Forms of Religious Glocalization: Orthodox Christianity in the Longue Durée

Roudometof

2014

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This article advocates a "glocal turn" in the religion-globalization problematic. It proposes a model of multiple glocalizations in order to analyze the historically constituted relationship between world religions and local cultures. First, the conceptual evolution from globalization to glocalization is discussed with special reference to the study of the religion. Second, the necessity for adopting the perspective of the longue durée with regard to the study of Eastern Orthodox Christianity is explained. Third, an outline of four forms of religious glocalization is proposed. Each of these forms is presented both analytically as well as through examples from the history of Eastern Christianity (from the 8th to the 21st century). It is argued that this approach offers a model for analyzing the relation between religion, culture and society that does not succumb to the Western bias inherent in the conventional narrative of western modernization and secularization.

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Religious Markets in Ukraine: Post-communist Revivals and New Directions

Brik

Korolkov²

2019

Ukraine in Transformation

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Orthodox Christianity as a transnational religion: theoretical, historical and comparative considerations

Cited by 17 publications

References 33 publications

Glocal Religion and Feeling at Home: Ethnography of Artistry in Finnish Orthodox Liturgy

Glocal Religion and Feeling at Home: Ethnography of Artistry in Finnish Orthodox Liturgy

Forms of Religious Glocalization: Orthodox Christianity in the Longue Durée

Religious Markets in Ukraine: Post-communist Revivals and New Directions

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