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The Eastern Church in the Spiritual Marketplace

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Availability:In StockContributor:Amy SlagleSeries:Niu Orthodox Christian StudiesAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2011-09-01Pages:215
Language:EnglishPublisher:Northern Illinois University PressISBN-13:9780875806709ISBN-10:875806708UPC:9780875806709Book Category:Social Science, ReligionBook Subcategory:Sociology of Religion, Christianity, Christian LivingBook Topic:OrthodoxSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCJQ5P9ZXP

Like many Americans, the Eastern Orthodox converts in this study are participants in what scholars today refer to as the "spiritual marketplace" or quest culture of expanding religious diversity and individual choice-making that marks the post-World War II American religious landscape.

In this highly readable ethnographic study, Slagle explores the ways in which converts, clerics, and lifelong church members use marketplace metaphors in describing and enacting their religious lives. Slagle conducted participant observation and formal semi-structured interviews in Orthodox churches in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Jackson, Mississippi. Known among Orthodox Christians as the "Holy Land" of North American Orthodoxy, Pittsburgh offers an important context for exploring the interplay of Orthodox Christianity with the mainstreams of American religious life. Slagle's second round of research in Jackson sheds light on the American Bible Belt where over the past thirty years the Orthodox Church in America has marshaled significant resources to build mission parishes.

Relatively few ethnographic studies have examined Eastern Orthodox Christianity in the United States, and Slagle's book fills a significant gap. This lucidly written book is an ideal selection for courses in the sociology and anthropology of religion, contemporary Christianity, and religious change. Scholars of Orthodox Christianity, as well as clerical and lay people interested in Eastern Orthodoxy, will find this book to be of great appeal.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Northern Illinois University PressISBN-13:9780875806709ISBN-10:875806708UPC:9780875806709Book Category:Social Science, ReligionBook Subcategory:Sociology of Religion, Christianity, Christian LivingBook Topic:OrthodoxSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCJQ5P9ZXP

Amy Slagle is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of Southern Mississippi.


Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press

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