1st Edition
Marian Reflections on War and Peace Trauma, Mourning, and Justice in Ukraine and Beyond
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Foreword by Peter Howard
Foreword by Yuri Shchurko
Foreword by Aleš Maver
Editorial Introduction by Lenart Škof, Emily Holmes and Pavlo Smytsnyuk
1/ WAR IN UKRAINE AND MARY
1. Women between Sacrifice and Defense: Reading the Bible amid the War in Ukraine - Halyna Teslyuk
2. The Queen of Peace Cradling a Rocket Launcher: The Sacralization of War and Peace and the Ambivalence of the Divine Feminine - Pavlo Smytsnyuk
3. Marian Iconography in Ukraine during Wartime and Its Byzantine Prototypes: Theological and Social Implications - Lidiya Lozova
2/ MARIAN PEACE AND JUSTICE BETWEEN TRAUMA AND MOURNING
4. Ukrainian Women’s Resilience and Resistance through the Lens of Marian Trauma Theology - Heleen Zorgdrager
5. Marian Peace for the Children who Suffer in War: A Theory of Matrixiality between Literature and Philosophy - Lenart Škof
6. ‘She who Ripens the Grain: Food Justice, Solidarity, and the Incarnation - Emily A. Holmes
7. Stabat Mater Dolorosa: Marian Mourning as Peace-Oriented Response to the Sorrows of Our World - Yves De Maeseneer
3/ INTERRELIGIOUS AND INTERCULTURAL MARIAN REFLECTIONS: FROM MILITARISM TO PEACEBUILDING
8. Mary, Our Lady of Liberation: Faith and Art Under Occupation- Marie-Claire Klassen
9. Mary, A Mother and Sister of All Wounded: A Transnational Feminist Reading of Mariology in Response to Militarism - Min-Ah Cho
10. Mary as a Cross-Cultural Symbol of Peace: South Asian Context - Joe Evans
11. Mary, Queen of Peace in Twentieth-Century Apparitions - Chris Maunder
Index
Biography
Lenart Škof is Head of the Institute for Philosophical and Religious Studies at the Science and Research Centre in Koper, Slovenia, and Dean of Faculty ISH at the Alma Mater Europaea University (Ljubljana, Slovenia). He is a member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA, Salzburg) and the President of Slovenian Society for Comparative Religion.
Emily A. Holmes is Professor of Religious Studies at Christian Brothers University in Memphis, TN, USA. Her current work focuses on community-based spiritual and ethical practices related to growing, sharing, and eating food using an incarnational theological framework.
Pavlo Smytsnyuk is Petrach Scholar at the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He specializes in political theology and social ethics in a comparative perspective.
