Употреба предмета са хришћанском симболиком у свакодневном животу у Србији
The Usage of Objects with Christian Symbolic in Everyday Life in Serbia

Author(s): Milesa Stefanović-Banović
Subject(s): Anthropology, Theology and Religion, Eastern Orthodoxy
Published by: Етнографски институт САНУ
Keywords: religious items; everyday life; commercialization
Summary/Abstract: Mass revitalization of religion in Serbia in 1990s brought a hyper-production of object with religious symbolic and iconography. Besides the traditional items, such as crosses, rosaries and icons, common objects with Christian iconography also appeared: lighters, napkins, table cloths, fridge magnets, glasses, bottles, clothes etc. Although, subjectively perceived, the initial euphoria of “the return to religion” weakened, some of its heritage has remained. The most notable examples are certainly in the domain of material culture. The research included a survey examining the elements of such material culture present today. The usage and attitudes toward items with Christian symbolic in everyday life in Serbia are examined, as well as the motives of using these items – is their nature primary religious, aesthetical, magical or other.

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