{"product_id":"9780875806709","title":"The Eastern Church in the Spiritual Marketplace: American Conversions to Orthodox Christianity","description":"\u003cp\u003eLike many Americans, the Eastern Orthodox converts in this study are participants in what scholars today refer to as the “spiritual marketplace”\u003cbr\u003eor quest culture of expanding religious diversity and individual choice-\u003cbr\u003emaking that marks the post-World War II American religious landscape.\u003cbr\u003eIn this highly readable ethnographic study, Slagle explores the ways in which converts, clerics, and lifelong church members use marketplace metaphors in describing and enacting their religious lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSlagle conducted participant observation and formal semi-structured interviews in Orthodox churches in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and\u003cbr\u003eJackson, Mississippi. Known among Orthodox Christians as the “Holy\u003cbr\u003eLand” of North American Orthodoxy, Pittsburgh offers an important context for exploring the interplay of Orthodox Christianity with the mainstreams of American religious life. Slagle’s second round of research in Jackson sheds light on the American Bible Belt where over the past thirty years the Orthodox Church in America has marshaled significant resources to build mission parishes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRelatively few ethnographic studies have examined Eastern Orthodox\u003cbr\u003eChristianity in the United States, and Slagle’s book fills a significant gap.\u003cbr\u003eThis lucidly written book is an ideal selection for courses in the sociology and anthropology of religion, contemporary Christianity, and religious change. Scholars of Orthodox Christianity, as well as clerical and lay people interested in Eastern Orthodoxy, will find this book to be of great appeal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Northern Illinois University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47015990690032,"sku":"9780875806709","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780875806709_p0.jpg?v=1763842105","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780875806709","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}