Candace Lukasik (Edited By) Candace Lukasik is Assistant Professor of Religion and Faculty Affiliate in Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures at Mississippi State University. Her research focuses on the transnational politics of migration, violence, and indigeneity in the Middle East, specifically Egypt and Iraq, and its US diasporas. She is the author of Martyrs and Migrants: Coptic Christians and the Persecution Politics of US Empire. Sarah Riccardi-Swartz (Edited By) Sarah Riccardi-Swartz is Assistant Professor of Religion and Anthropology at Northeastern University, where she is also an affiliate faculty member in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program. Her research focuses on politics, race, media gender and sexuality, and Orthodox Christianity. She is the author of Between Heaven and Russia: Religious Conversion and Political Authority in Appalachia.
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Anthropologies of Orthodox Christianity stands out for its concern with the integration of theological ideas with the practice of lived religion, which makes it a major intervention in the fast growing conversation about theology within anthropology (and about anthropology within theology). The contributions are uniformly excellent and the collection as a whole is a benchmark contribution to the study of Orthodox life.---Joel Robbins, author of Theology and the Anthropology of Christian Life Offering a rich and layered analysis of diverse Orthodox Christian communities--their histories, theologies, and politics --this ambitious volume shows how Orthodox life worlds are created, contested, and transformed, particularly through encounters with various 'others.' It underscores the importance of engaging deeply with theology, ecclesiology, and liturgy for producing nuanced, context-sensitive scholarship and furthers the critical conversations that shape the study of global Christianity and religion more broadly.---Vlad Naumescu, Professor, Central European University