Catherine Wanner, "Everyday Religiosity and the Politics of Belonging in Ukraine" (Cornell UP, 2022)
New Books in Anthropology
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The Importance of Places in Religious Emotional Experience
I think we can really read your ethnographic work as one that is a study of emotions, as related to everyday religiosity and places that are animated with prayer right. When you focus largely on these public commemorative spaces and you have chapters that sort of touch on spaces that are cemeteries, monasteries, you even take us at the end to the war zone. And so I guess I want to ask you, why are these spaces such important for religious emotional experience? Why are these spaces so important for religiousotional experience?" Because it's not just pervasive but it's also effective," he says.
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