TY  - GEN
AU  - Kupari,Helena
AU  - Vuola,Elina
AU  - Kupari,Helena
AU  - Vuola,Elina
TI  - Orthodox Christianity and Gender: Dynamics of Tradition, Culture and Lived Practice
T2  - Routledge Studies in Religion
SN  - 9780203701188
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Taylor & Francis
KW  - Religion: general
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Gender studies, gender groups
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Young Man
KW  - Finnish Orthodox Church
KW  - Elder Paisios
KW  - Prioritizes Research Subjects
KW  - Military Chaplain
KW  - Orthodox Women
KW  - Maidan Protests
KW  - Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
KW  - Icon Corners
KW  - Von Arx
KW  - Women’s Civic Activism
KW  - Icon Painting
KW  - Commemorative Culture
KW  - Apostolic Ministry
KW  - Greek Orthodoxy
KW  - Larger Family
KW  - Revivalist Icon
KW  - Ukrainian Orthodox Church
KW  - Svetlana Alexievich
KW  - Orthodox Iconography
KW  - Sixteenth Century Protestant Reformation
KW  - Greek Orthodox Women
KW  - Greek Crisis
KW  - Chernobyl Disaster
KW  - Christ Blessing
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/102500/1/9781351329873.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/160298
ER  -