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THE MATERIALITY OF ARMENIAN CHRISTIANITY: Gospel Books as Sacred Objects

THE MATERIALITY OF ARMENIAN CHRISTIANITY: Gospel Books as Sacred Objects

Based on several years of ethnographic research in Armenia and recent anthropological literature on religion as a sensual and material phenomenon, Konrad Siekierski discusses how Gospel Books (and some other religious texts) make visible the invisible, touchable the untouchable, and – ultimately – reachable the unreachable for Armenian Christians today. He also explores the Armenian veneration of home saints in the context of Soviet and post-Soviet Armenia’s changing socio-political landscape, the decay of traditional village life in the country, and the theft of many privately owned Gospel Books

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