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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 Ca-tholicism in both theology and practice, it remains an underused setting for aca-demic inquiry into current lived religious practice.
Orthodox and Catholic understandings of gender are based on the idea of God-given complementarity between women and men. In Orthodox theology, the God-given roles, qualities, and functions of human beings tend to be interpreted as immutable and essentialist.
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Jul 9, 2019 · An Orthodox Approach to Gender Dysphoria Dr. Keira Smith Note: Keira Smith is a pseudonym adopted by a widely published, tenured professor at a university in the United States of America. This chapter provides a brief overview of the contemporary secular landscape regarding gender dysphoria, as well as offering an Orthodox approach to gender
Constructing the Patriarchal Woman: Liturgical Challenges for Orthodox Christian Gender Equality. Ashley purpura. Introduction. An unmistakable marker of Eastern Orthodox Christianity is its patriarchal insti- tutional and liturgical leadership. In the secular sense, patriarchy signifies that an exclusively male episcopacy heads the Church, and ...
As the smallest of the three branches of Christianity, there has been much less academic work on women in Orthodox Christianity than in Roman Catholic or Protestant Christianity, and this broad-ranging and fascinating volume fills a gap in scholarship and is very welcome.
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 ...
Nov 2, 2021 · This volume engages women’s lifeworlds, practices, and experiences in relation to Orthodox Christianity in multiple, varied localities, discussing both contemporary and pre-1989 developments. It critically engages the pluralist and changing character of Orthodox forms of institutional and social life in relation to gender by using feminist epistemologies and drawing on original ethnographic ...
