Kupari, Helena <br/><br/>
Orthodox Christianity and Gender  Dynamics of Tradition, Culture and Lived Practice 

 - Oxford  Taylor & Francis  2019 
 - 1 electronic resource (224 p.) 
 - Routledge Studies in Religion .
<br/><br/> Open Access 
<br/><br/> The Orthodox Christian tradition has all too often been sidelined in conversations around contemporary religion. Despite being distinct from Protestantism and Catholicism in both theology and practice, it remains an underused setting for academic inquiry into current lived religious practice. This collection, therefore, seeks to redress this imbalance by investigating modern manifestations of Orthodox Christianity through an explicitly gender-sensitive gaze. By addressing attitudes to gender in this context, it fills major gaps in the literature on both religion and gender. Starting with the traditional teachings and discourses around gender in the Orthodox Church, the book moves on to demonstrate the diversity of responses to those narratives that can be found among Orthodox populations in Europe and North America. Using case studies from several countries, with both large and small Orthodox populations, contributors use an interdisciplinary approach to address how gender and religion interact in contexts such as, iconography, conversion, social activism and ecumenical relations, among others. From Greece and Russia to Finland and the USA, this volume sheds new light on the myriad ways in which gender is manifested, performed, and engaged within contemporary Orthodoxy. Furthermore, it also demonstrates that employing the analytical lens of gender enables new insights into Orthodox Christianity as a lived tradition. It will, therefore, be of great interest to scholars of both Religious Studies and Gender Studies. 
<br/><br/><br/>Creative Commons 
<br/><br/><br/>English 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780203701188 9781351329873 9781138574205 9780203701188 9781351329866 9781351329859 9781032087573 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.4324/9780203701188  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Religion: general<br/>Sociology<br/>Gender studies, gender groups<br/>Christianity
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Young Man Finnish Orthodox Church Elder Paisios Prioritizes Research Subjects Military Chaplain Orthodox Women Maidan Protests Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Icon Corners Von Arx Women’s Civic Activism Icon Painting Commemorative Culture Apostolic Ministry Greek Orthodoxy Larger Family Revivalist Icon Ukrainian Orthodox Church Svetlana Alexievich Orthodox Iconography Sixteenth Century Protestant Reformation Greek Orthodox Women Greek Crisis Chernobyl Disaster Christ Blessing