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Orthodox Christianity and Gender - Dynamics of Tradition, Culture and Lived Practice (Paperback)
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Orthodox Christianity and Gender - Dynamics of Tradition, Culture and Lived Practice (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Religion
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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.
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