Orthodox Christianity and gender : dynamics of tradition, culture and lived practice /

"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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Corporate Author:	Taylor & Francis
Other Authors:	Kupari, Helena (Editor), Vuola, Elina (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
Series:	Routledge studies in religion.
Subjects:	Women in the Orthodox Eastern Church. Gender identity > Religious aspects > Christianity. Women > Religious aspects > Orthodox Eastern Church. Femmes dans l'Église orthodoxe. Identité de genre > Aspect religieux > Christianisme. Femmes > Aspect religieux > Église orthodoxe. Religion & beliefs. Christian Churches & denominations. Orthodox & Oriental Churches. Religious aspects of sexuality, gender & relationships. Gender studies: women. Religious groups: social & cultural aspects. RELIGION > Christianity > Orthodox Churches. RELIGION > Sexuality & Gender Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology of Religion. Women > Religious aspects > Orthodox Eastern Church Gender identity > Religious aspects > Christianity Women in the Orthodox Eastern Church Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction / Helena Kupari, Elina Vuola
Gender and Orthodox theology : vistas and vantage points / Brian A. Butcher
Women in the church : conceptions of orthodox theologians in early twentieth-Century Russia / Nadezhda Beliakova
Obedient artists and mediators : women icon painters in the Finnish Orthodox Church from the mid-twentieth to the twenty-first century / Katariina Husso
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
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
Enshrining gender : Orthodox women and material culture in the United States / Sarah Riccardi-Swartz
Tradition, gender, and empowerment : the birth of theotokos society in Helsinki, Finland / Pekka Metso, Nina Maskulln, Teuvo Laitila
Shaping public orthodoxy : women's peace activism and the Orthodox churches in the Ukrainian crisis / Heleen Zorgdrager
On saints, prophets, philanthropists, and anticlericals : orthodoxy, gender, and the crisis in Greece / Eleni Sotiriou
Russian Orthodox icons of Chernobyl as visual narratives about women at the center of nuclear disaster / Elena Romashko.