In Chase of ‘Modern Religiosity’: Georgia’s Secular Moderns Challenge the ‘Spoon-Worshippers’
In the spring of 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic rapidly spread through the four corners of the world, Christian Orthodox churches were caught in the age-old altercation with science. Tensions condensed around a small material object—the communion spoon—and its potential to transmit the virus. The...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2021
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Journal of religion in Europe
Year: 2021, Volume: 14, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 246-271 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Georgia
/ COVID-19 (Disease)
/ Pandemic
/ Georgisch-Orthodoxe Kirche
/ Eucharist
/ Communion
/ Spoon
/ Religiosity
/ Debate
/ Secularism
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism KBK Europe (East) KDF Orthodox Church RC Liturgy |
| Further subjects: | B
normative modernity
B Orthodox Church of Georgia B modern religiosity B Georgia B Religious Practice B Eucharist |
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| Summary: | In the spring of 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic rapidly spread through the four corners of the world, Christian Orthodox churches were caught in the age-old altercation with science. Tensions condensed around a small material object—the communion spoon—and its potential to transmit the virus. The article examines the ensuing Eucharist-related debates between ‘liberal secularists’ and followers of the Orthodox Church of Georgia: namely, the former’s selective juxtaposition of abstract ‘faith’ against religious practice due to the latter’s alleged incongruity with modernity. The goal of this article is to illuminate the underlying discourse behind these accusations, which in turn draws on the notion of ‘modern religiosity’ informed by post-Reformation ideals. |
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| ISSN: | 1874-8929 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion in Europe
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18748929-bja10057 |