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The Anastenaria are Orthodox Christians in Northern Greece who observe a unique annual ritual cycle focused on two festivals, dedicated to Saint Constantine and Saint Helen. The festivals involve processions, music, dancing, animal sacrifices, and culminate in an electrifying fire-walking ritual. Carrying the sacred icons of the saints, participants dance over hot coals as the saint moves them. The Burning Saints presents an analysis of these rituals and the psychology behind them. Based on long-term fieldwork, The Burning Saints traces the historical development and sociocultural context of the Greek fire-walking rituals. As a cognitive ethnography, the book aims to identify the social, psychological and neurobiological factors which may be involved and to explore the role of emotional and physiological arousal in the performance of such ritual. A study of participation, experience and meaning, The Burning Saints presents a highly original analysis of how mental processes can shape social and religious behaviour.

Anastenaria. --- Fire walking --- Rites and ceremonies --- Firewalking --- Walking on fire --- Fire --- Religious aspects --- Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados. --- Ekklēsia tēs Hellados --- Church of Greece --- Greek Orthodox Church --- Orthodox Eastern Church, Greek --- Ορθόδοξος Εκκλησία της Ελλάδος --- Greece --- Religious life and customs. --- Orthodoxos Ekklesia tes Hellados.

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In present-day Greece many people still speak of exotikNB--mermaids, dog-form creatures, and other monstrous beings similar to those pictured on medieval maps. Challenging the conventional notion that these often malevolent demons belong exclusively to a realm of folklore or superstition separate from Christianity, Charles Stewart looks at beliefs about the exotikNB and the Orthodox Devil to demonstrate the interdependency of doctrinal and local religion. He argues persuasively that students who cling to the timeworn folk/official distinction will find it impossible to appreciate the breadth and coherence of contemporary Greek cosmology. Like the medieval cartographers' fantasies, which were placed on the "edges" of the physical world, Greek demons cluster in marginal locations--outlying streams, wells, and caves. The demons are near enough to the community, however, to attack humans--causing illness or death, according to Stewart's informants. Drawing on an unusual range of sources, from the author's fieldwork on the Cycladic island of Naxos to Orthodox liturgical texts, this book pictures the exotikNB as elements of a Greek cognitive map: figures that enable individuals to navigate the traumas and ambiguities of life. Stewart also examines the social forces that have by turns disposed the Greek people to embrace these demons as indicative of links with the classical past or to eschew them as signs of backwardness and ignorance.

#PBIB:2001.2 --- #PBIB:gift 2001 --- Exotiká --- Demonology --- Orthodox Eastern Church --- Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados --- Doctrines. --- Greece --- Naxos (Greece) --- Religious life and customs. --- Social life and customs. --- Exotiká. --- Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados --- Demonology, Christian --- Demons --- Evil spirits --- Ekklēsia tēs Hellados --- Church of Greece --- Greek Orthodox Church --- Orthodox Eastern Church, Greek --- Ορθόδοξος Εκκλησία της Ελλάδος --- Náxos, Greece --- Naxia (Greece) --- Nasso (Greece) --- Spirits --- Spiritual warfare --- Exotiká

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This book examines and compares, from an interdisciplinary perspective of Religious Studies and International Relations, the conduct and rhetoric of the Orthodox Churches of Greece and Cyprus vis-à-vis the "Europeanisation" process. This study focuses on the conditionality of their "sense of belonging" in the European Union (EU) as their predisposition is dependent, in part, on their sense of "being", as well as on their perception of an ideal type of Europeanness. In this context, this book offers insights on how the Greek and Cypriot Churches, as soft power actors of domestic and European capacity, perceive Europeanness and Otherness ; thereby, the compatibility of the personified Greek and Cypriot states with the EU as a post-Westphilian political-cultural entity comes into view.

Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados --- Cyprus (Archdiocese) --- Europe --- Civilization --- 281.5 --- 281.5 Oosterse, Byzantijnse kerken:--in het algemeen --- Oosterse, Byzantijnse kerken:--in het algemeen --- Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados. --- Ekklēsia tēs Hellados --- Church of Greece --- Greek Orthodox Church --- Orthodox Eastern Church, Greek --- Ορθόδοξος Εκκλησία της Ελλάδος --- Autokephalos Ekklēsia tēs Kyprou --- Church of Cyprus --- Ekklēsia Kyprou --- Ekklēsia tēs Kyprou --- Hagiōtatē Apostolikē Ekklēsias Kyprou --- Hagiōtatē Ekklēsia tēs Kyprou --- Hiera Archiepiskopē Kyprou --- Kıbrıs Rum Ortodoks Kilisesi --- Orthodox Church, Cyprus --- Orthodox Eastern Church, Cypriote --- Orthodoxos Ekklēsia en Kyprō --- Civilization. --- Europe - Civilization

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Cyprus Historical and Contemporary StudiesSince the onset of Ottoman rule, but more especially from the mid-18th Century, the archbishops of the autocephalous Cypriot Orthodox Church have wielded a great deal of political power. Most people of a certain age will remember the bearded monk who became a Greek nationalist politician and the first President of the Republic of Cyprus in 1960, Archbishop Makarios III. Indeed his presence at Madame Tussaud's is a reminder of his stature. But were all Cypriot archbishops such political and powerful Greek nationalists? This study is unique in its explor

Church --- Church history --- Religion. --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Ecclesiastical theology --- Ecclesiology --- Theology, Ecclesiastical --- People of God --- Makarios --- Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados --- History. --- Cyprus --- International status. --- Politics and government. --- Ethnic relations. --- History --- Mouskos, Michaēl, --- Makarios, --- Μακάριος --- Ekklēsia tēs Hellados --- Church of Greece --- Greek Orthodox Church --- Orthodox Eastern Church, Greek --- Ορθόδοξος Εκκλησία της Ελλάδος --- Kıbrıs --- Kypros --- Zypern --- Chypre --- Qubruṣ --- Kipriaki Dhimokratia --- Kıbrıs Cumhuriyeti --- Cipro --- Chipre --- Cypern --- Kipŭr --- Tsiprus --- Kypriakē Dēmokratia --- Republic of Cyprus --- Ciper --- Κύπρος --- Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία --- Kipr --- Кипр --- Ostrov Kipr --- Остров Кипр --- Cyprus (Turkish republic of northern Cyprus, 1983- ) --- Cyprus (Turkish federated state, 1975-1983)

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This book traces the history of the Greek orthodox community of Pera (in Turkish Beyoğlu), a quarter situated at the heart of Istanbul. It is mostly based on parish archives and covers the period from 1804 to 1923. Demographic aspects, administrative organization, the profile of the élite, philanthropic projects and activities (education, charity) constitute the main axes. Through the case of this Christian population, one of the most prosperous in Eastern Mediterranean, the study highlights the functioning and the aspirations of non Muslim communities of the Ottoman Empire at the age of nationalism. Were these conscious of living through the end of an era ? Implicitly, the warning signs of the collapse of the imperial edifice are also sought to be identified. Ce livre retrace l’histoire de la communauté grecque orthodoxe de Péra (en turc Beyoğlu), quartier situé au cœur d’Istanbul. Il s’appuie pour l’essentiel sur les archives paroissiales. Il couvre la période allant de 1804 à 1923. Les aspects démographiques, l’organisation administrative, le profil des élites, les projets et œuvres philanthropiques (éducation, charité) en constituent les principaux axes. À travers le cas de cette population chrétienne, une des plus prospères de l’Est méditerranéen, il s’agit de cerner le fonctionnement et les aspirations des communautés non musulmanes de l’Empire ottoman à l’âge des nationalismes. Celles-ci avaient-elles conscience de vivre la fin d’une époque ? En filigrane, l’ouvrage cherche à identifier les signes précurseurs de l’effondrement de l’édifice impérial.

Greeks --- Christians --- HISTORY / Europe / General --- Religious adherents --- Ethnology --- Mediterranean race --- History --- Beyoğlu (Istanbul, Turkey) --- Istanbul (Turkey) --- Stamboul (Turkey) --- Stampōl (Turkey) --- Stambul (Turkey) --- Stěmpol (Turkey) --- T︠S︡arigrad (Turkey) --- Istāmbūl (Turkey) --- T︠S︡arʹgrad (Turkey) --- Āsitānah (Turkey) --- Ḳushṭa (Turkey) --- İstanbul Büyük Şehir Belediyesi (Turkey) --- Greater Istanbul Municipality (Turkey) --- İstanbul Anakent Belediyesi (Turkey) --- İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi (Turkey) --- Polē (Turkey) --- Estambul (Turkey) --- Baladīyat Isṭānbūl (Turkey) --- Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (Turkey) --- Constantinople --- Pera (Istanbul, Turkey) --- Konstantin Pera (Istanbul, Turkey) --- Beyoğlu, Istanbul --- Ethnic relations --- Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados --- Ekklēsia tēs Hellados --- Church of Greece --- Greek Orthodox Church --- Orthodox Eastern Church, Greek --- Ορθόδοξος Εκκλησία της Ελλάδος --- Beyoğlu (Istanbul, Turkey)