Eating, Eschatology, Expectation: Fasting and Salvation in Serbian Orthodox Christianity
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Practising Orthodox Christians in the central Serbian town of Kraljevo ‘work on’ their salvation by striving to live a ‘liturgical life’ structured around attending Divine Liturgy, taking Divin...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ethnos
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['0014-1844', '1469-588X']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2021.1920623