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Women and Religiosity in Orthodox Christianity fills a significant
gap in the sociology of religious practice: Studies focused on
women's religiosity have overlooked Orthodox populations, while
studies of Orthodox practice (operating within the dominant
theological, historical, and sociological framework) have remained
gender-blind. The essays in this collection shed new light on the
women who make up a considerable majority of the Orthodox
population by engaging women's lifeworlds, practices, and
experiences in relation to their religion in multiple, varied
localities, discussing both contemporary and pre-1989 developments.
These contributions critically engage the pluralist and changing
character of Orthodox institutional and social life by using
feminist epistemologies and drawing on original ethnographic
research to account for Orthodox women's previously ignored
perspectives, knowledges, and experiences. Combining the depth of
ethnographic analysis with geographical breadth and employing a
variety of research methodologies, this book expands our
understanding of Orthodox Christianity by examining Orthodox women
of diverse backgrounds in different settings: parishes,
monasteries, and the secular spaces of everyday life, and under
shifting historical conditions and political regimes. In defiance
of claims that Orthodox Christianity is immutable and fixed in
time, these essays argue that continuity and transformation can be
found harmoniously in social practices, demographic trends, and
larger material contexts at the intersection between gender,
Orthodoxy, and locality. Contributors: Kristin Aune, Milica
Bakic-Hayden, Maria Bucur, Ketevan Gurchiani, James Kapalo, Helena
Kupari, Ina Merdjanova, Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, Eleni Sotiriou,
Tatiana Tiaynen-Qadir, Detelina Tocheva
Women and Religiosity in Orthodox Christianity fills a significant
gap in the sociology of religious practice: Studies focused on
women's religiosity have overlooked Orthodox populations, while
studies of Orthodox practice (operating within the dominant
theological, historical, and sociological framework) have remained
gender-blind. The essays in this collection shed new light on the
women who make up a considerable majority of the Orthodox
population by engaging women's lifeworlds, practices, and
experiences in relation to their religion in multiple, varied
localities, discussing both contemporary and pre-1989 developments.
These contributions critically engage the pluralist and changing
character of Orthodox institutional and social life by using
feminist epistemologies and drawing on original ethnographic
research to account for Orthodox women's previously ignored
perspectives, knowledges, and experiences. Combining the depth of
ethnographic analysis with geographical breadth and employing a
variety of research methodologies, this book expands our
understanding of Orthodox Christianity by examining Orthodox women
of diverse backgrounds in different settings: parishes,
monasteries, and the secular spaces of everyday life, and under
shifting historical conditions and political regimes. In defiance
of claims that Orthodox Christianity is immutable and fixed in
time, these essays argue that continuity and transformation can be
found harmoniously in social practices, demographic trends, and
larger material contexts at the intersection between gender,
Orthodoxy, and locality. Contributors: Kristin Aune, Milica
Bakic-Hayden, Maria Bucur, Ketevan Gurchiani, James Kapalo, Helena
Kupari, Ina Merdjanova, Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, Eleni Sotiriou,
Tatiana Tiaynen-Qadir, Detelina Tocheva
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