Becoming Christian
A Matter of Everyday Resistance and Negotiation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6095336 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Steinunn Kristjánsdóttir (0000-0002-7524-8460, Schlumberger (Ireland), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 27-45 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Norwegian Archaeological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0029-3652 • E-ISSN: 1502-7678 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00293652.2015.1015602 |
| OpenAlex | W2038874944 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 35 |
The diverse appearances of church buildings, iconography and altered burial practices have commonly been used to exemplify the expansion of Christianity in early medieval Europe. Less emphasis has been placed on how the common European dealt with the Christian transformation in daily life, perhaps because of the tendency in research to distinguish ritual actions from secular. To become Christian did not necessarily entail greater religiousness or deeper religious devotion but centred rather on how people synchronized their everyday lives, both religious and secular, in accordance with Christian doctrine and the laws imposed by the Roman Church. However, social transformations do not emerge exclusively from political or administrative institutions, such as the Church or other ruling authority; they also emerge interactively, through the general public, who are equally capable of exercising power by taking part in societal discourse. With reference to examples from early medieval Iceland, this article argues for the application of Foucault’s theory of power relations and everyday resistance to research on the adoption of Christianity, beyond time and space
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Christianity · Doctrine · Early Christianity · Everyday life · Iconography · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Resistance (ecology) · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Classics · History · Law · Medieval Literature and History · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy
Medieval Life
Archaeology and Modernity
Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture
Discipline and Punish
In small things forgotten
The Viking Age as a Period of Religious Transformation
Christianization and the Rise of Christian Monarchy
Behind Heathendom
The Subject and Power
“Either, or, Neither Nor”
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Ritual and Rationality
The Archaeology of Medieval Europe
Diaspora and identity in the Viking Age
Interpreting the Viking Age to Medieval period transition in Norse Orkney through cultural soil and sediment analyses
Tracing Old Norse Cosmology
Magic for the Dead? The Archaeology of Magic in Later Medieval Burials
A Viking-age Valley in Iceland
The Roles of Pit Houses and Gendered Spaces on Viking-Age Farmsteads in Iceland
Fishing for Modernity
The zooarchaeology of medieval ‘Christendom
Ritual and Rationality
The Small World of the Vikings
An Icelandic medieval stave church made of drift timber
Fragments of a conversion
The Constitution of Society
Money isn't everything
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,45 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |