Shaping public Orthodoxy
Year: 2019

This chapter discusses women’s peace activism in contemporary Ukraine, following the Maidan protests, the annexation of Crimea by Russia, and the war in the Eastern regions of the country. Taking up four different examples of such activism, the author shows how new forms of women’s sociopolitical engagement are informed or inspired by religious values, notions, and representations. While the initiatives have different understandings of the roots and resolutions of the conflict, they are all atte