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A Review Forum of Praying with the Senses: Contemporary Orthodox Christian Spirituality in Practice (Ed. Sonja Luehrmann 2018)

with contributions by: Lars Hedegaard Williams Helena Kupari Valentina Napolitano Simon Coleman Sarah Bakker Kellogg Review Forum Response: Sonja Luehrmann

Carroll, Timothy. 2018. Orthodox Christian Material Culture: Of People and Things in the Making of Heaven

Reviewed by Elena Kravchenko. In Orthodox Christian Material Culture: Of People and Things in the Making of Heaven, Timothy Carroll presents a detailed description of how Orthodox Christians who attend and work at St. Æthelwald’s parish in London think about and engage ...

Thornton, Brendan Jamal. 2016. Negotiating Respect: Pentecostalism, Masculinity, and the Politics of Spiritual Authority in the Dominican Republic

Reviewed by Ruthie Meadows (University of Nevada, Reno). In 2016, I took an evening stroll through the small city of Baracoa, Cuba as the sun set against façades of brightly-painted, columned wooden homes. In a country internationally-renowned for its rich Afro-Cuban musical ...

Bialecki, Jon. 2017. A Diagram for Fire: Miracles and Variation in an American Charismatic Movement.

Reviewed by Timothy Carroll (University College, London). In A Diagram for Fire, Jon Bialecki draws upon his ethnographic field research amongst Vineyard churches – principally in Southern California – to lay the groundwork for ‘a kind of commonality’ (p. xviii) not only ...

Haynes, Naomi. 2016. Moving by the Spirit: Pentecostal Social Life on the Zambian Copperbelt

Reviewed by Casey Golomski (University of New Hampshire). The key values Haynes describes in her innovative book about Pentecostals in a Zambian town are “moving” (ukusela in Bemba) and “moving by the spirit.” Moving means to be visibly, recognizably improving one’s ...
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Sacred Heart - Naomi Haynes
Man painting, Dolls, Candles, Monastery Artabyunk - Hillary Kaell
Car - James Bielo

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