Material Religion in Private Space: Lived Religion in Germany

Fitz, Celica; Matter, Anna; Diehl, Lea; Osse, Johanna; Magin, Nikolas

doi:10.1080/17432200.2017.1377445

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“…Homemade Epitaphioi clearly express the materialization of individual religiosity in private space (cf. Fitz et al 2017). While, for the moment, they may concern only individual movements, it was also possible to identify modes and patterns of distribution of this movement.…”

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Popular Religion and Material Responses to Pandemic: The Christian Cult of theEpitaphiosduring the COVID-19 Crisis in Greece and Cyprus

Papantoniou

Vionis

2020

Ethnoarchaeology

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This article explores the materiality of the Orthodox Christian cult of the Epitaphios on Good Friday of 2020 when, during the COVID-19 pandemic, social distancing and isolation were deemed the most effective means of protecting societies from exposure to the virus. Epitaphios is a metonym that references a venerated object, a decorated cloth or wooden icon bearing the image of Christ prepared for burial. It is placed upon a wooden bier, representing the Tomb of Christ, also called the Epitaphios. During the pandemic, people reacted inventively to restrictions imposed on practicing this communal cult publicly in churches by constructing homemade Epitaphioi and displaying them in privately-owned spaces. We examine the materiality of the homemade Epitaphioi in the context of popular religion, evaluating how crisis may divert the forces of the longue durée into a different channel, and how ethnographic analogy may be useful for understanding ritual and cult in archaeology.

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confidence: 99%