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Orthodox Christianity and Gender: Dynamics of Tradition, Culture and Lived Practice book cover

1st Edition

Orthodox Christianity and Gender Dynamics of Tradition, Culture and Lived Practice

Edited By Helena Kupari, Elina Vuola Copyright 2020
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more


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


 

Biography

Helena Kupari is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Cultures, Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki, Finland. She has published a monograph entitled Lifelong Religion as Habitus: Religious Practice among Displaced Karelian Orthodox Women in Finland (2016) and has contributed chapters and articles on Religious Studies to various publications in the field.



Elina Vuola is Professor of Global Christianity and Dialogue of Religions at the Faculty of Theology, University of Helsinki, Finland. She has been a visiting scholar at the Women’s Studies in Religion Program of the Harvard Divinity School (2002-2003) and at the Religious Studies Department at Northwestern University (2014-2015). She has written multiple chapters and articles and lectured widely on the interaction of gender and Orthodox Christianity. Her most recent monograph is The Virgin Mary across Cultures: Devotion among Costa Rican Catholic and Finnish Orthodox Women (2019).

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