This paper maps the rituals through ivhich devotees in Eastern Christian communities are initiated into the Kingdom of God. Its primary focus is the intimate relationship between the rituals surrounding dying, death, burial, and the memory of the dead, with the festive cycle of Holy Week and pascha (Easter), in which Christ's dying and death are contemplated. The paper argues that the mythic pattern of Holy Week and pascha structures and informs the meaning of dying and death for the devotees, the mourners, and the community. The mythopoetic character of both ritual cycles (Holy Week and pascha. and, the rites for the devotee) uses sacred word, object, and gesture to identify the devotee with the cosmic Christ. In this manner, the experienc...
The Christian Rejection of Animal Sacrifice and the New-Testament Conception of the Christ's Death A...
Analyzing the new rite of Christian Funerals of the Ro man Catholic liturgy, the author sees Christ...
The Orthodox Church is known for its liturgical aesthetics. The rich liturgical cycle consists of se...
This study is of a predominantly socio-anthropological nature, dealing with the traditions, beliefs,...
The problem death is essential for the therapeutic hesychastic spirituality, because it is one of pr...
At its inception, Christian worship emerged from social conversations around a feast table. During C...
The motif of the return of the soul to the aither in Greek funerary epigram The paper examines ...
Religion as an object of study is constituted by providing an endless universe of knowledge, in whic...
This thesis examines the role which death plays in the development of a uniquely Christian identity ...
The celebration of Easter has become a universal event within the Christian liturgical calendar and ...
The aim of his presentation is to analyze the symbolic meaning of time within one of the most import...
An abundance of anecdotal evidence suggests criticism of funeral services. In a society where religi...
No abstract he troparion Enthroned above, entombed below, the heavens and infer nal regions compreh...
The purpose of this article is to investigate the relationship between the discourse of death, or th...
The authors’ perspective in this article is based on the statement that ‘the illness is a kind of im...
The Christian Rejection of Animal Sacrifice and the New-Testament Conception of the Christ's Death A...
Analyzing the new rite of Christian Funerals of the Ro man Catholic liturgy, the author sees Christ...
The Orthodox Church is known for its liturgical aesthetics. The rich liturgical cycle consists of se...
This study is of a predominantly socio-anthropological nature, dealing with the traditions, beliefs,...
The problem death is essential for the therapeutic hesychastic spirituality, because it is one of pr...
At its inception, Christian worship emerged from social conversations around a feast table. During C...
The motif of the return of the soul to the aither in Greek funerary epigram The paper examines ...
Religion as an object of study is constituted by providing an endless universe of knowledge, in whic...
This thesis examines the role which death plays in the development of a uniquely Christian identity ...
The celebration of Easter has become a universal event within the Christian liturgical calendar and ...
The aim of his presentation is to analyze the symbolic meaning of time within one of the most import...
An abundance of anecdotal evidence suggests criticism of funeral services. In a society where religi...
No abstract he troparion Enthroned above, entombed below, the heavens and infer nal regions compreh...
The purpose of this article is to investigate the relationship between the discourse of death, or th...
The authors’ perspective in this article is based on the statement that ‘the illness is a kind of im...
The Christian Rejection of Animal Sacrifice and the New-Testament Conception of the Christ's Death A...
Analyzing the new rite of Christian Funerals of the Ro man Catholic liturgy, the author sees Christ...
The Orthodox Church is known for its liturgical aesthetics. The rich liturgical cycle consists of se...