‘I’ve tempted the saint with my prayer!’ Prayer, charisma and ethics in Romanian eastern orthodox Christianity

摘要: ABSTRACTMarcel Mauss’ perspective on prayer has the merit of revealing complex relations between individual experience, sociality and efficacy prayer. In this article I propose a particular ethical these also new ethnographic territory for studying situational, relational personal practices Considering orientation towards contemporary saints within Romanian Eastern Orthodox revival milieu introduce notion charismatic exemplar in order to open up analytical space as practice. argue that ethics reveals work efficaciously everyday web constitutive relationships are replete with insights into relationships’ concrete social historical constitution. Within capacities engaging prayerfully shaped at intersection self-cultivation ...