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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ftunivturku:oai:www.utupub.fi:10024/166212 2023-05-15T17:00:13+02:00 Glocal Religion and Feeling at Home: Ethnography of Artistry in Finnish Orthodox Liturgy Tatiana Tiaynen-Qadir sosiologia, Sociology 2603303 2022-10-28T13:36:56Z https://www.utupub.fi/handle/10024/166212 en eng MDPI AG Switzerland Sveitsi CH Basel 8 10.3390/rel8020023 Religions 2 https://www.utupub.fi/handle/10024/166212 URN:NBN:fi-fe2021042716618 2077-1444 2022 ftunivturku 2022-11-03T00:01:26Z 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. Other/Unknown Material karelia* karelian University of Turku: UTUPub |
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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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Glocal Religion and Feeling at Home: Ethnography of Artistry in Finnish Orthodox Liturgy |
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Glocal Religion and Feeling at Home: Ethnography of Artistry in Finnish Orthodox Liturgy |
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Glocal Religion and Feeling at Home: Ethnography of Artistry in Finnish Orthodox Liturgy |
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glocal religion and feeling at home: ethnography of artistry in finnish orthodox liturgy |
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