Finnish Women Making Religion [electronic resource] : Between Ancestors and Angels /
Utriainen, T.editor.
Salmesvuori, P.editor.
Finnish Women Making Religion puts forth the complex intersections that Lutheranism, the most important religious tradition in Finland, has had with other religions as well as with the larger society and politics also internationally.
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Finnish Women Making Religion: Between Ancestors and Angels; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Critical and Creative Turns; Political and Religious History of Finland: An Overview; Outline of the Book; Notes; Part I; Chapter 1: "Feeding the Dead": Women "Doing" Religion and Kinship in Traditional Russian Orthodox Karelia; "Doing" Personhood and Kinship; Feeding the Dead: Commemoration and Kinship-Making; Memorial Meals; Women "Doing" Religion, Personhood, and Kinship; Notes; Chapter 2: Convincing One's Self and Other People: The Case of Trance Preacher Helena Konttinen
The Dawn of the Career: Inner ConflictsFirst Performance: Beginning of the Career; The Long Fast and Its Significance; The Outline of the Yearly Spectacle: The Prophet Revives Her Authority; First Part of the Phase Days: Teaching the Bible; Embodying the Pains of Hell; Prophecy Announced in the Paper; Notes; Chapter 3: Alexandra Gripenberg's Feminist Christianity; Religious Influences and the Christian Spirit of Alexandra Gripenberg's Feminist Thinking; Feminist Reinterpretations of the Bible; Alexandra Gripenberg's Christian Interpretation of Moral Reform; Conclusion; Notes; Part II
Chapter 4: "Our Life Work": Professional Women and Christian Values in Early Twentieth-Century FinlandHow to Be a Truly Christian Woman; The Tensions of Student Life; Living a Religious Life in a Professional Context; Concluding Remarks; Notes; Chapter 5: "A Touch of the Spiritual World": An Anthroposophical Core in the Life and Work of Kersti Bergroth (1886-1975); Introduction; A Tension between Art and Faith; Public and Private: Autobiographical Narratives; The Path toward Anthroposophy; Awakening: Conversion to Anthroposophy; Awakened Life and Awakening to Death
Spiritual Development: The Soul and Body of an ArtistDeath Is Not the End: The Doctrine of Reincarnation; The Life of a Journalist and a Cosmopolite; Art as the Author's Veil; Notes; Chapter 6: Intersections of Gender, Religion, and Ethnicity in Christian Missions; Finnish Missionaries in Japan; Complex Hierarchies; Allies over Ethnic and Gender Boundaries; Hierarchical Sisters; Notes; Part III; Chapter 7: "I Was Both Lutheran and Orthodox": Evacuee Karelian Orthodox Women, Bidenominational Families, and the Making of Religion; Introduction; Women's Religiosity, Family, and the Modern Context
The Evacuee Karelian Orthodox Women in Postwar FinlandReligion-Makingand Caretaking; Being Both Lutheran and Orthodox; Religious Practice as a Family and While Missing One's Family; Conclusions: Navigating between Lutheranism, Orthodoxy, Altruism, and Individualism; Notes; Chapter 8: Life-Based Theology of Finnish Women Theologians; Irja Kilpeläinen's Theology for the Weak; Irja Askola: Theology in Poems; Sustainable Theology and the Language of Life; Notes; Chapter 9: Servants and Agents: Gender Roles in Neocharismatic Christianity; Subordination as a Model for Behavior
Equality as a Model for Behavior
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Finnish Women Making Religion puts forth the complex intersections that Lutheranism, the most important religious tradition in Finland, has had with other religions as well as with the larger society and politics also internationally.
Religion and sociology.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Religion—History.
Religions.
Sociology of Religion.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
History of Religion.
Comparative Religion.
Religion and Society.