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oapen-20.500.12657-306002024-03-25T09:51:38Z The Stranger at the Feast Boylston, Tom anthropology of christianity ritual mediation ethiopian orthodox christianity fasting food Coffee Eastern Orthodox Church Eucharist God Monastery thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology The Stranger at the Feast is a pathbreaking ethnographic study of one of the world’s oldest and least-understood religious traditions. Based on long-term ethnographic research on the Zege peninsula in northern Ethiopia, Tom Boylston tells the story of how people have understood large-scale religious change by following local transformations in hospitality, ritual prohibition, and feeding practices. Ethiopia has undergone radical upheaval in the transition from the imperial era of Haile Selassie to the modern secular state, but the secularization of the state has been met with the widespread revival of popular religious practice. For Orthodox Christians in Zege, everything that matters about religion comes back to how one eats and fasts with others. Boylston shows how practices of feeding and avoidance have remained central even as their meaning and purpose have dramatically changed from a means of marking class distinctions within Orthodox society to a marker of the difference between Orthodox Christians and other religions within the contemporary Ethiopian state. 2018-03-08 00:00:00 2020-04-01T13:02:38Z 2020-04-01T13:02:38Z 2018 book 645100 OCN: 1002693143 9780520968974 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30600 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 645100.pdf https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.44 University of California Press 10.1525/luminos.44 10.1525/luminos.44 72f3a53e-04bb-4d73-b921-22a29d903b3b 9780520968974 194 Oakland open access
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The Stranger at the Feast is a pathbreaking ethnographic study of one of the world’s oldest and least-understood religious traditions. Based on long-term ethnographic research on the Zege peninsula in northern Ethiopia, Tom Boylston tells the story of how people have understood large-scale religious change by following local transformations in hospitality, ritual prohibition, and feeding practices. Ethiopia has undergone radical upheaval in the transition from the imperial era of Haile Selassie to the modern secular state, but the secularization of the state has been met with the widespread revival of popular religious practice. For Orthodox Christians in Zege, everything that matters about religion comes back to how one eats and fasts with others. Boylston shows how practices of feeding and avoidance have remained central even as their meaning and purpose have dramatically changed from a means of marking class distinctions within Orthodox society to a marker of the difference between Orthodox Christians and other religions within the contemporary Ethiopian state.
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