Gender and Orthodox Christianity / edited by Helena Kupari and Elena Vuola.

"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....

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Other Authors: Kupari, Helena (Editor), Vuola, Elena (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2019.
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Table of Contents:
  • ; 1. Introduction Helena Kupari and Elina Vuola I Negotiating Tradition 2. Gender and Orthodox Theology: Vistas and Vantage Points Brian Butcher ; 3. Women in the Church: Conceptions of Orthodox Theologians in Early Twentieth-Century Russia Nadezhda Beliakova ; 4. Obedient Artists and Mediators: Women Icon Painters in the Finnish Orthodox Church from the Mid-Twentieth to the Twenty-First Century Katariina Husso ; 5. What Has Not Been Assumed Has Not Been Redeemed: The Forgotten Orthodox Theological Condonement of Women's Ordination in the 1996 Orthodox and Old Catholic Consultation on Gender and the Apostolic Ministry Peter-Ben Smit II Lived Orthodoxy 6. How to Ask Embarrassing Questions About Women's Religion: Menstruating Mother of God, Ritual Impurity, and Fieldwork Among Seto Women in Estonia and Russia Andreas Kalkun ; 7. Enshrining Gender: Orthodox Women and Material Culture in the United States Sarah Riccardi-Swartz ; 8. Tradition, Gender, and Empowerment: The Birth of Theotokos Society in Helsinki, Finland Pekka Metso, Nina Maskulin, and Teuvo Laitila III Crises and Gender 9. Shaping Public Orthodoxy: Women's Peace Activism and the Orthodox Churches in the Ukrainian Crisis Heleen Zorgdrager ; 10. On Saints, Prophets, Philanthropists, and Anticlericals: Orthodoxy, Gender, and the Crisis in Greece Eleni Sotiriou ; 11. Russian Orthodox Icons of Chernobyl as Visual Narratives about Women at the Center of Nuclear Disaster Elena Romashko ;