Glocal Religion and Feeling at Home: Ethnography of Artistry in Finnish Orthodox Liturgy




Tatiana Tiaynen-Qadir

PublisherMDPI AG

Basel

2017

 Religions

8

2

14

2077-1444

2077-1444

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.3390/rel8020023

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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