Baptizing into Kin: Religion and Peace in a Multi-ethnic Village in Georgia

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Journal of Religion in Europe Pub Date : 2021-12-20 DOI:10.1163/18748929-bja10060

Ketevan Gurchiani

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Abstract

Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a multi-ethnic village in Georgia, this paper shows how everyday peace is continuously reaffirmed in the tradition of inviting Muslim godparents to baptize Christian children. The Muslim godparents perform the roles of the chosen Christians while at the same time remaining Muslim. Hybrid local lay-religious practices around the ritual of christening are analyzed within a larger cultural semiotics that allows reciprocity of perspectives and, specifically in this context, enables the recruitment of non-Christians into the role of godparent. Religion serves as a ground for asserting peace.

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基于在格鲁吉亚一个多民族村庄的民族志田野调查，本文展示了如何在邀请穆斯林教父母为基督徒孩子施洗的传统中不断重申日常和平。穆斯林教父母扮演被选中的基督徒的角色，同时保持穆斯林身份。围绕洗礼仪式的混合当地世俗宗教习俗在更大的文化符号学中进行分析，这种文化符号学允许观点的互惠性，特别是在这种情况下，可以招募非基督徒担任教母的角色。宗教是维护和平的基础。

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期刊介绍： The peer-reviewed Journal of Religion in Europe (JRE) provides a forum for multi-disciplinary research into the complex dynamics of religious discourses and practices in Europe, both historically and contemporary. The Journal’s underlying idea is that religion in Europe is characterized by a variety of pluralisms. There is a pluralism of religious communities that actively engage with one another; there exists a pluralism of societal systems, such as nation, law, politics, economy, science, and art, all of them interacting with religious systems; finally, in a pluralism of scholarly discourses religious studies, legal studies, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology are addressing the religious dynamics involved.