Acknowedgements

Introduction

Clarification of terms. Quotidian life. Premodernity. Sources. Theoretical and methodological grounds

Sources 

Limits of the study

Why the body?

Chapter I. First steps on the road. The human body in the field of binary anthropological oppositions. The religious ritual as a way of later-technique

1.1. The profane body and the sacred body

1.2. Body hygiene — an orthodox prespective

1.3. ”Full as a popish child on all souls day” — food and eating according to the Orthodox church

1.4. Abortion

1.5. Rituals relating to birth

Chapter II. The sacred body. Sanctification the body

2.1. The Christian sacraments and rituals

2.2. The baptized body

2.1.1. Course of the ritual

2.1.2. Tonsure

2.3. Anointment / chrismation

2.4. Specific cases of baptism

2.4.1. Shortened baptism of a child due to fear of death

2.4.2. Baptism of infidels and heterodox people

2.4.3. Baptism of a backslider

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Abstract. Roads through the orthodox ritual

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