Glocal Religion and Feeling at Home: Ethnography of Artistry in Finnish Orthodox Liturgy
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 background...
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ftmdpi:oai:mdpi.com:/2077-1444/8/2/23/ 2023-08-20T04:07:41+02:00 Glocal Religion and Feeling at Home: Ethnography of Artistry in Finnish Orthodox Liturgy Tatiana Tiaynen-Qadir 2017-02-13 application/pdf https://doi.org/10.3390/rel8020023 EN eng Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel8020023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Religions; Volume 8; Issue 2; Pages: 23 glocal religion Orthodox Christianity glocalization transnational anthropology artistry liturgy home therapeutic Text 2017 ftmdpi https://doi.org/10.3390/rel8020023 2023-07-31T21:02:57Z 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. Text karelia* karelian MDPI Open Access Publishing Religions 8 2 23 |
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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 |
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