A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
Glocal Religion and Feeling at Home: Ethnography of Artistry in Finnish Orthodox Liturgy
Authors: Tatiana Tiaynen-Qadir
Publisher: MDPI AG
Publishing place: Basel
Publication year: 2017
Journal: Religions
Volume: 8
Issue: 2
Number of pages: 14
ISSN: 2077-1444
eISSN: 2077-1444
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/rel8020023
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/19058643
This paper adapts a glocalization framework in a transnational, anthropological exploration of liturgy in the Orthodox Church of Finland (OCF). It draws on long-term ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with participants of liturgy from Finnish, Russian, and Greek cultural and linguistic backgrounds. The main argument of the paper is that generic processes of nationalization and transnationalization are not mutually exclusive in practitioners’ experiences of liturgy in OCF, but rather generate a glocal space that incorporates Finnish, Russian, Karelian, and Byzantine elements. Individuals artistically engage with glocal liturgy on sensorial, cognitive, social, and semantic levels. What is important for the participants is a therapeutic sense that comes from a feeling of ‘being at home’, metaphorically, spiritually, and literally. People’s ongoing, creative work constitutes Orthodoxy as their national and transnational home.
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