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Zusatztext Reflecting more than a decade of anthropological work, this is a meticulously researched, eloquently written and deeply personal ethnography about the lived religion of contemporary Greece. It sheds new light into the everyday practices of Greeks and connects these practices with the broader cross-cultural currents of New Age religiosity as well as the scholarly research on the multiple meanings of spirituality in different cultures. Informationen zum Autor Eugenia Roussou is a researcher at the Centre for Research in Anthropology at the ISCTE–Lisbon University Institute, Portugal. Vorwort Examines the rise of new age spirituality in Greece and challenges the stereotype that in southern European countries, religious identity and Christianity go hand-in-hand. Zusammenfassung This anthropological work thoroughly illustrates the novel synthesis of Christian religion and New Age spirituality in Greece. It challenges the single-faith approach that traditionally ties southern European countries to Christianity and focuses on how processes of globalization influence and transform vernacular religiosity. Based on long-term anthropological fieldwork in Greece, this book demonstrates how the popular belief in the ‘evil eye’ produces a creative affinity between religion and spirituality in everyday practice. The author analyses a variety of significant research themes, including lived and vernacular religion, alternative spirituality and healing, ritual performance and religious material culture. The book offers an innovative social scientific interpretation of contemporary religiosity, while engaging with a multiplicity of theoretical, analytic and empirical directions. It contributes to current key debates in social sciences with regard to globalization and secularization, religious pluralism, contemporary spirituality and the New Age movement, gender, power and the body, health, illness and alternative therapeutic systems, senses, perception and the supernatural, the spiritual marketplace, creativity and the individualization of religion in a multicultural world. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction2. The New Age of Greek Religiosity: Orthodox Christianity and Beyond3. Matiasma : the Energetic Interplay of Senses and Emotions4. Ksematiasma : Healing, Power, Performance5. Creative Syntheses through Material Culture: the Evil Eye in the Spiritual Marketplace6. The Pluralistic Landscape of Greek Religiosity: Religion and Spirituality at a Global Age 7. ConclusionBibliographyIndex...
