CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Manea, Carmen Maria |
|---|---|
| Title | Positions towards a multiple knowledge of God: interpreting the religious experience in an orthodox church |
| Summary | Current debates on religious knowledge could be characterized, with the risk of essentializing their methods and outcomes, as divided between a classical path opened by Weber and Durkheim and a modern tendency to pull apart the chains of 19 and early 20th century scholarly traditions by contesting their methodological foundations and/or religious and ethical standpoints. The ethical, political and belief foundations of the intellectualist” British anthropology of religion had a strong impact on the subsequent development of the social studies on religion and kept a breach between anthropology and theology. Only with the writings of Evans-Pritchard, Mary Douglas and the efforts of Victor and Edith Turner to bring Christian beliefs, experiences and emotions to the attention of anthropology beside phenomenological explanations, did anthropology make a significant step in getting closer to theological studies. These will all be contrasted with my own positionality in what concerns the knowledge about God and the subsequent reading of the experiences, religious practices and language used by the members of the Romanian monastery (Budapest) to show their own understanding of God as He is, as He manifests His presence or as He makes himself knowable to the believer. Thus, this work could be marked as an experiment, albeit all its faults, in an ethnography of spirituality and in self-reflexivity. |
| Supervisor | Naumescu, Vlad |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/manea_carmen.pdf |
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