Orthodox Christian Material Culture : Of People and Things in the Making of Heaven
Material culture-Religious aspects-Orthodox Eastern Church Orthodox Eastern Church-England-Customs and practices Christianity and culture-England. England-Religious life and customs aineellinen kulttuuri ortodoksinen kirkko
Routledge
2018
EISBN 9781351027045
Intro.
Half Title.
Series Information.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Dedication.
Contents.
List of figures.
Preface (by way of apology).
Acknowledgements.
Notes on language usage.
Prologue.
Introduction.
Orthodoxy and materiality.
Gellian scholarship.
The prototype.
Human indices.
Material agency.
God.
Summary.
Part I People and place.
1 British Orthodoxy.
Modern re-emergence.
St Æthelwald's.
The parishioners.
2 Coming to the Orthodox temple.
Geographic context.
Experiencing the geography.
Coming in/to the temple.
The Orthodox temple.
Visiting other parishes.
St George's.
St James'.
Festal participation.
3 Here and there.
Personal pilgrimage.
Group pilgrimages.
Barking Abbey.
Our Lady of Walsingham, Norfolk.
Materiality of place and thing.
Vesting the temple.
Summary.
Part II Materials.
4 Making sacred space.
Sensible coherence.
Fabric's sociality.
Making sensible space.
Substance of the immaterial.
Axis of incoherence.
5 Materials of transformation.
Becoming Orthodox.
The catechumenate.
The catechumen Niyousha.
Lessons in becoming a new person.
Baptism.
Interpretations.
Family relations.
By water and the Spirit.
6 Materials of ikonicity.
Names.
Participation.
Ikonicity.
Ikonicity part 1: innate.
Ikonicity part 2: acquired.
The new socialities of Niyousha-Christina.
Water.
Oil.
Light.
Hair.
The Eucharist.
Enduring and positional efficacy.
Part III Making heaven.
7 Becoming an ikon.
The priestly vesture.
Vesting.
Becoming an ikon.
8 Ikonicity.
The person.
Technologies of becoming.
Material indexicality and ikonicity.
Materiality and ikonicity.
Multiplicity and dividuality.
Modal persons.
Making Christ, building heaven.
9 Becoming Orthodox, making heaven.
The Agia Zone.
Co-action of soul, body, external things6.
The sign of the cross.
Anaphoric objects.
I swear I saw this.
'Bring me back a relic'.
Metastasis.
Summary.
Epilogue: All Saints Barking of the Spice Rack.
Diagram of St Æthelwald's Parish Church.
Bibliography.
Glossary.
Index.
Half Title.
Series Information.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Dedication.
Contents.
List of figures.
Preface (by way of apology).
Acknowledgements.
Notes on language usage.
Prologue.
Introduction.
Orthodoxy and materiality.
Gellian scholarship.
The prototype.
Human indices.
Material agency.
God.
Summary.
Part I People and place.
1 British Orthodoxy.
Modern re-emergence.
St Æthelwald's.
The parishioners.
2 Coming to the Orthodox temple.
Geographic context.
Experiencing the geography.
Coming in/to the temple.
The Orthodox temple.
Visiting other parishes.
St George's.
St James'.
Festal participation.
3 Here and there.
Personal pilgrimage.
Group pilgrimages.
Barking Abbey.
Our Lady of Walsingham, Norfolk.
Materiality of place and thing.
Vesting the temple.
Summary.
Part II Materials.
4 Making sacred space.
Sensible coherence.
Fabric's sociality.
Making sensible space.
Substance of the immaterial.
Axis of incoherence.
5 Materials of transformation.
Becoming Orthodox.
The catechumenate.
The catechumen Niyousha.
Lessons in becoming a new person.
Baptism.
Interpretations.
Family relations.
By water and the Spirit.
6 Materials of ikonicity.
Names.
Participation.
Ikonicity.
Ikonicity part 1: innate.
Ikonicity part 2: acquired.
The new socialities of Niyousha-Christina.
Water.
Oil.
Light.
Hair.
The Eucharist.
Enduring and positional efficacy.
Part III Making heaven.
7 Becoming an ikon.
The priestly vesture.
Vesting.
Becoming an ikon.
8 Ikonicity.
The person.
Technologies of becoming.
Material indexicality and ikonicity.
Materiality and ikonicity.
Multiplicity and dividuality.
Modal persons.
Making Christ, building heaven.
9 Becoming Orthodox, making heaven.
The Agia Zone.
Co-action of soul, body, external things6.
The sign of the cross.
Anaphoric objects.
I swear I saw this.
'Bring me back a relic'.
Metastasis.
Summary.
Epilogue: All Saints Barking of the Spice Rack.
Diagram of St Æthelwald's Parish Church.
Bibliography.
Glossary.
Index.
