@inbook{ec713539dad649f7a344794020a0947e,
title = "Problems of Belief: Tonalities of Immediacy among Christians of Damascus",
abstract = "This article examines the different effects Christianity has among Christians of Damascus. Instead of focusing on devout subjects, I trace out the ramifications Christianity has in different settings. Christianity sets different kinds of foregrounds and backgrounds which in this article are attended to during the Feast of the Holy Cross. During this Christian feast, a great variety of themes are brought into play with different kinds of relations to what it is to be a Christian in Damascus. I argue that what I term tonalities of immediacy is a fertile way to understand how contingencies and histories are played upon in concrete situations. The problem of belief, I argue, is not settled by pointing to a particular Christian and Western heritage or to default reactions against imagined certainties; rather the interplay between faith and scepticism may be a productive lens through which to grasp local Christian concerns.",
author = "Andreas Bandak",
year = "2012",
month = dec,
doi = "10.1080/00141844.2012.728024",
language = "English",
series = "Ethnos. Journal of Anthropology",
publisher = "Taylor & Francis",
number = "4",
pages = "535--555",
booktitle = "Foregrounds and Backgrounds",
address = "United States",
}