Family and the Transmission of Traditions in the Syriac Orthodox Church in Sweden

Family and the Transmission of Traditions in the Syriac Orthodox Church in SwedenNordic Journal of Religion and SocietySyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/YQ6YGUKV/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.MagdalenaNordinFamily and the Transmission of Traditions in the Syriac Orthodox Church in Swedenhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/YQ6YGUKVhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/YQ6YGUKVhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/YQ6YGUKVNordic Journal of Religion and Society36:1202319-32The article is about the relation between religion and family in a diasporic church in Sweden. Focusing on transmission of religious traditions in three Syriac Orthodox parishes, it asks: Where in the church and in what situations does transmission of religious traditions in the parishes take place? Who is part of the transmission of religious traditions in the parishes? How does transmission of religious traditions in the parishes interrelate with family? The article analyses empirical material gathered during ethnographic fieldwork in 2018–2020. The results demonstrate that transmission of religious traditions takes place in the church room, but as well in the church lobby and in meeting rooms, and was more marked in outer relations of family, that is between women in the choir, between children and the community, and in relation to deceased relatives. The church community functioned as an extended family in this diasporic church, and it can be argued that in this case religion is still to be seen as a “communal solidarity project” (cf. Smith and Adamczyk 2021). Nordin, Magdalena. “Family and the Transmission of Traditions in the Syriac Orthodox Church in Sweden.” Nordic Journal of Religion and Society 36:1 (2023): 19–32. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.18261/njrs.36.1.2. Magdalena Nordin, Family and the Transmission of Traditions in the Syriac Orthodox Church in Sweden, Nordic Journal of Religion and Society 36:1 (2023): 19–32, https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.18261/njrs.36.1.2.