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In this book, Helena Kupari examines the lived religion of Finnish, evacuee Karelian Orthodox women through an innovative reading and application of Pierre Bourdieu’s practice theory. After the Second World War, Finland ceded most of its Karelian territories to the Soviet Union. Over 400,000 Finns, including two thirds of the Finnish Orthodox Christians, lost their homes. This book traces the ways in which the religion of Orthodox women was affected by their displacement and their experiences as members of the Orthodox minority in post-war and contemporary Finland. It contributes to theoretical discussions on lived religion by producing an account of lifelong minority religion as habitus, or an embodied and practical “sense of religion”.

281.9 --- 281.9 Oosters-orthodoxe Kerk. Grieks-Russisch orthodoxe Kerk --- Oosters-orthodoxe Kerk. Grieks-Russisch orthodoxe Kerk --- Women in the Orthodox Eastern Church --- Christian women --- Karelians --- Femmes dans l'Eglise orthodoxe --- Chrétiennes --- Caréliens --- Spiritual life --- Religion --- Vie spirituelle --- Orthodox Eastern Church --- Finland --- Finlande --- Religious life and customs --- Vie religieuse --- Religion. --- Religious life and customs. --- Spiritual life. --- Ethnology --- Finno-Ugrians --- Women, Christian --- Women --- Christian life & practice

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"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"--

Gender identity --- Women in the Orthodox Eastern Church. --- Women --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Orthodox Eastern Church. --- Religion & beliefs --- Christian Churches & denominations --- Orthodox & Oriental Churches --- Religious aspects of sexuality, gender & relationships --- Gender studies: women --- Religious groups: social & cultural aspects