The stranger at the feast : prohibition and mediation in an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian community /

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"The Stranger at the Feast is the first full-length ethnographic study of Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity. Based on two years of field study on the Zege peninsula on Lake Tana between 2008 and 2014, the book follows the material relationships by which Ethiopian Orthodox Christians relate to God...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Boylston, Tom, 1980- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Temas:
Christianity > Ethiopia > Case studies.
Mediation > Religious aspects > Christianity > Case studies.
Taboo > Ethiopia > Case studies.
Christianisme > Éthiopie > Études de cas.
Médiation > Aspect religieux > Christianisme > Études de cas.
Tabou > Éthiopie > Études de cas.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Christianity
Mediation > Religious aspects > Christianity
Taboo
Ethiopia > Church history.
Ethiopia
class distinctions.
eating.
fasting.
feeding practices.
haile selassie.
hospitality.
imperial era.
large scale religious change.
local transformations.
modern secular state.
northern ethiopia.
orthodox christians.
orthodox society.
radical upheaval.
religious traditions.
ritual prohibition.
secularization of the state.
zege peninsula.
Case studies
Church history
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"The Stranger at the Feast is the first full-length ethnographic study of Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity. Based on two years of field study on the Zege peninsula on Lake Tana between 2008 and 2014, the book follows the material relationships by which Ethiopian Orthodox Christians relate to God, each other, and the material environment. It shows how religious life in Zege is based around a ritual ecology of prohibition and mediation in which fasting and avoidance practices are necessary in order to make the material world fit for religious life. The book traces how religious feeding and fasting practices have been the idiom through which Christians in Zege have understood the turbulent political changes of recent decades"--Provided by publisher.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0520968972
9780520968974
Acceso:Open Access

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