Family and the Transmission of Traditions in the Syriac Orthodox Church in Sweden
The article is about the relation between religion and family in a diasporic church in Sweden. Focusing on transmission of religious traditions in three Syriac Orthodox parishes, it asks: Where in the church and in what situations does transmission of religious traditions in the parishes take place?...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universitetsforlaget
2023
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Nordic journal of religion and society
Year: 2023, Volume: 36, Issue: 1, Pages: 19-32 |
| Further subjects: | B
Syriac Orthodox Church
B Integration B Religious traditions B Transmission B Family |
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| Summary: | The article is about the relation between religion and family in a diasporic church in Sweden. Focusing on transmission of religious traditions in three Syriac Orthodox parishes, it asks: Where in the church and in what situations does transmission of religious traditions in the parishes take place? Who is part of the transmission of religious traditions in the parishes? How does transmission of religious traditions in the parishes interrelate with family? The article analyses empirical material gathered during ethnographic fieldwork in 2018-2020. The results demonstrate that transmission of religious traditions takes place in the church room, but as well in the church lobby and in meeting rooms, and was more marked in outer relations of family, that is between women in the choir, between children and the community, and in relation to deceased relatives. The church community functioned as an extended family in this diasporic church, and it can be argued that in this case religion is still to be seen as a "communal solidarity project" (cf. Smith and Adamczyk 2021). |
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| ISSN: | 1890-7008 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Nordic journal of religion and society
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.18261/njrs.36.1.2 |