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    The Stranger at the Feast

    Prohibition and Mediation in an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian Community

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    Author(s)
    Boylston, Tom
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    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.
    URI
    http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30600
    Keywords
    anthropology of christianity; ritual; mediation; ethiopian orthodox christianity; fasting; food; Coffee; Eastern Orthodox Church; Eucharist; God; Monastery
    DOI
    10.1525/luminos.44
    ISBN
    9780520968974
    OCN
    1002693143
    Publisher
    University of California Press
    Publisher website
    https://www.ucpress.edu/
    Publication date and place
    Oakland, 2018
    Classification
    Anthropology
    Pages
    194
    Public remark
    Relevant Wikipedia pages: Coffee - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee; Eastern Orthodox Church - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church; Ethiopia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopia; Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Orthodox_Tewahedo_Church; Eucharist - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucharist; Fasting - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasting; God - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God; Monastery - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monastery
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    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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