This collectiion investigates 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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
