Orthodox Christianity and Gender

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 c...

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description 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 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. Starting with the traditional teachings and discourses around gender in the Orthodox Church, the book moves on to demonstrate the diversity of responses to those narratives that can be found among Orthodox populations in Europe and North America. Using case studies from several countries, with both large and small Orthodox populations, contributors use an interdisciplinary approach to address how gender and religion interact in contexts such as, iconography, conversion, social activism and ecumenical relations, among others. From Greece and Russia to Finland and the USA, this volume sheds new light on the myriad ways in which gender is manifested, performed, and engaged within contemporary Orthodoxy. Furthermore, it also demonstrates that employing the analytical lens of gender enables new insights into Orthodox Christianity as a lived tradition. It will, therefore, be of great interest to scholars of both Religious Studies and Gender Studies.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1602982025-05-24T05:08:25Z Orthodox Christianity and Gender Kupari, Helena Vuola, Elina Young Man Finnish Orthodox Church Elder Paisios Prioritizes Research Subjects Military Chaplain Orthodox Women Maidan Protests Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Icon Corners Von Arx Women’s Civic Activism Icon Painting Commemorative Culture Apostolic Ministry Greek Orthodoxy Larger Family Revivalist Icon Ukrainian Orthodox Church Svetlana Alexievich Orthodox Iconography Sixteenth Century Protestant Reformation Greek Orthodox Women Greek Crisis Chernobyl Disaster Christ Blessing thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRA Religion: general thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRM Christianity 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 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. Starting with the traditional teachings and discourses around gender in the Orthodox Church, the book moves on to demonstrate the diversity of responses to those narratives that can be found among Orthodox populations in Europe and North America. Using case studies from several countries, with both large and small Orthodox populations, contributors use an interdisciplinary approach to address how gender and religion interact in contexts such as, iconography, conversion, social activism and ecumenical relations, among others. From Greece and Russia to Finland and the USA, this volume sheds new light on the myriad ways in which gender is manifested, performed, and engaged within contemporary Orthodoxy. Furthermore, it also demonstrates that employing the analytical lens of gender enables new insights into Orthodox Christianity as a lived tradition. It will, therefore, be of great interest to scholars of both Religious Studies and Gender Studies. 2025-05-24T05:08:24Z 2025-05-24T05:08:24Z 2025-05-23T08:04:22Z 2019 book ONIX_20250523T093505_9781351329873_79 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102500 9781351329873 9781138574205 9780203701188 9781351329866 9781351329859 9781032087573 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/160298 eng Routledge Studies in Religion open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/102500/1/9781351329873.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9780203701188 10.4324/9780203701188 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 724bd953-b6d0-41cb-a0f0-52659c8216a5 9781351329873 9781138574205 9780203701188 9781351329866 9781351329859 9781032087573 Routledge 224 Oxford [...] open access
spellingShingle Young Man
Finnish Orthodox Church
Elder Paisios
Prioritizes Research Subjects
Military Chaplain
Orthodox Women
Maidan Protests
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Icon Corners
Von Arx
Women’s Civic Activism
Icon Painting
Commemorative Culture
Apostolic Ministry
Greek Orthodoxy
Larger Family
Revivalist Icon
Ukrainian Orthodox Church
Svetlana Alexievich
Orthodox Iconography
Sixteenth Century Protestant Reformation
Greek Orthodox Women
Greek Crisis
Chernobyl Disaster
Christ Blessing
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thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups
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Orthodox Christianity and Gender
title Orthodox Christianity and Gender
title_full Orthodox Christianity and Gender
title_fullStr Orthodox Christianity and Gender
title_full_unstemmed Orthodox Christianity and Gender
title_short Orthodox Christianity and Gender
title_sort orthodox christianity and gender
topic Young Man
Finnish Orthodox Church
Elder Paisios
Prioritizes Research Subjects
Military Chaplain
Orthodox Women
Maidan Protests
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Icon Corners
Von Arx
Women’s Civic Activism
Icon Painting
Commemorative Culture
Apostolic Ministry
Greek Orthodoxy
Larger Family
Revivalist Icon
Ukrainian Orthodox Church
Svetlana Alexievich
Orthodox Iconography
Sixteenth Century Protestant Reformation
Greek Orthodox Women
Greek Crisis
Chernobyl Disaster
Christ Blessing
thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRA Religion: general
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups
thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRM Christianity
topic_facet Young Man
Finnish Orthodox Church
Elder Paisios
Prioritizes Research Subjects
Military Chaplain
Orthodox Women
Maidan Protests
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Icon Corners
Von Arx
Women’s Civic Activism
Icon Painting
Commemorative Culture
Apostolic Ministry
Greek Orthodoxy
Larger Family
Revivalist Icon
Ukrainian Orthodox Church
Svetlana Alexievich
Orthodox Iconography
Sixteenth Century Protestant Reformation
Greek Orthodox Women
Greek Crisis
Chernobyl Disaster
Christ Blessing
thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRA Religion: general
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups
thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRM Christianity
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