Materiality and Modernity in Greek Religious Discourses and Practices: from Bodies to Icons
Materiality and Modernity in Greek Religious Discourses and Practices: from Bodies to Icons

Author(s): Katerina Seraïdari
Subject(s): Visual Arts, Theology and Religion, Eastern Orthodoxy
Published by: Етнографски институт САНУ
Keywords: icons; materiality; Greece; divine interventions; modernity
Summary/Abstract: This article examines the role that two different categories of objects, religiously embedded objects (such as icons) and ordinary items, play in Greek religious discourses and practices. In the first place, it shows how individuals’ piety transforms triviality into a personalized way of communicating with the sacred. Second, it analyzes the customary paths that follow icons that periodically move in and out of their sacred state, as well as their fluctuating identities.

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