Amy Slagle is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of Southern Mississippi.
"Amy Slagle's new ethnographic study on the dynamics of conversion
to the Orthodox Church in the so-called spiritual marketplace is a
welcome contribution illuminating the historian, sociologist,
pastor, and theologian.
" -Nicholas E. Denysenko, Journal of the American Academy of
Religion
"Slagle's study is an important contribution to several fields. It
adds significantly to the treatment of conversion in the sociology
of religion, which has tended to focus mainly on protestantism and
secondarily on Catholicism. The book is extraordinarily well
written and organized, combining data and theory with an ease
seldom found in academic prose.
" -Andrew Buckser, professor of Anthropology at Purdue University
and co-editor of The Anthropology of Religious Conversion
"Amy Slagle's monograph represents the first substantial
ethnographic study [on] Eastern Orthodox Christians in America. She
focuses on converts to Orthodoxy, presenting a compelling argument
that, far from rejecting modernity and the spiritual marketplace in
favor of tradition, converts operate precisely within the 'culture
of choice' environment.
" -Scott Kenworthy, Church History
Amy Slagle's new ethnographic study on the dynamics of conversion
to the Orthodox Church in the so-called spiritual marketplace is a
welcome contribution illuminating the historian, sociologist,
pastor, and theologian.
*Journal of the American Academy of Religion*
Slagle's study is an important contribution to several fields. It
adds significantly to the treatment of conversion in the sociology
of religion, which has tended to focus mainly on protestantism and
secondarily on Catholicism. The book is extraordinarily well
written and organized, combining data and theory with an ease
seldom found in academic prose.
*Andrew Buckser, Professor of Anthropology at Purdue University and
co-editor of The Anthropology of Religious Conversion*
Amy Slagle's monograph represents the first substantial
ethnographic study [on] Eastern Orthodox Christians in America. She
focuses on converts to Orthodoxy, presenting a compelling argument
that, far from rejecting modernity and the spiritual marketplace in
favor of tradition, converts operate precisely within the "culture
of choice" environment.
*Scott Kenworthy, American Society of Church History*
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