Welcoming Finitude
Toward a Phenomenology of Orthodox Liturgy
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Publisher: Fordham University Press
ISBN: 9780823286430
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 01/10/2019
Width: 15.2 cm
Height: 22.9 cm
What does it mean to experience and engage in religious ritual? How does liturgy structure time and space? How do our bodies move within liturgy, and what impact does it have on our senses? How does the experience of ritual affect us and shape our emotions or dispositions? How is liturgy experienced as a communal event, and how does it form the identity of those who participate in it? Welcoming Finitude explores these broader questions about religious experience by focusing on the manifestation of liturgical experience in the Eastern Christian tradition. Drawing on the methodological tools of contemporary phenomenology and on insights from liturgical theology, the book constitutes a philosophical exploration of Orthodox liturgical experience.
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xxi
Introduction 1
1 Temporality 31
2 Spatiality 57
3 Corporeality 80
4 Sensoriality 101
5 Affectivity 125
6 Community 146
7 Intentionality 167
Conclusion 189
Notes 205
Bibliography 275
Index 299