TY  - BOOK
AU  - Boylston, Tom
AB  - The Stranger at the Feast is a pathbreaking ethnographic study of one of the world’s oldest and least-understood religious traditions. Based on long-term ethnographic research on the Zege peninsula in northern Ethiopia, Tom Boylston tells the story of how people have understood large-scale religious change by following local transformations in hospitality, ritual prohibition, and feeding practices. Ethiopia has undergone radical upheaval in the transition from the imperial era of Haile Selassie to the modern secular state, but the secularization of the state has been met with the widespread revival of popular religious practice. For Orthodox Christians in Zege, everything that matters about religion comes back to how one eats and fasts with others. Boylston shows how practices of feeding and avoidance have remained central even as their meaning and purpose have dramatically changed from a means of marking class distinctions within Orthodox society to a marker of the difference between Orthodox Christians and other religions within the contemporary Ethiopian state.
DO  - 10.1525/luminos.44
ID  - OAPEN ID: 645100
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1002693143
ID  - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30600
KW  - anthropology of christianity
KW  - ritual
KW  - mediation
KW  - ethiopian orthodox christianity
KW  - fasting
KW  - food
KW  - Coffee
KW  - Eastern Orthodox Church
KW  - Eucharist
KW  - God
KW  - Monastery
KW  - thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30600/1/645100.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30600/1/645100.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30600/1/645100.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30600/1/645100.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/27683
PB  - University of California Press
PP  - Oakland
PY  - 2018
SN  - 9780520968974
TI  - The Stranger at the Feast : Prohibition and Mediation in an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian Community
ER  - 
