Conclusion
Tom Boylston
Chapter from the book: Boylston, T. 2018. The Stranger at the Feast: Prohibition and Mediation in an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian Community.
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Chapter from the book: Boylston, T. 2018. The Stranger at the Feast: Prohibition and Mediation in an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian Community.
I finish by summarizing my arguments about how prohibitions and fasting allow Orthodox Christians to change the state of the material world in order to make it fit for religious existence. I reiterate how fasting can be a practice of autonomy as well as submission and how eating and refusing to eat have consistently been the idioms by which Orthodox Christians in Zege have understood their society.
Boylston, T. 2018. Conclusion. In: Boylston, T, The Stranger at the Feast. California: University of California Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.44.k
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Published on Jan. 12, 2018