The Mother of God in Finnish Orthodox Women’s Lived Piety
The chapter analyses two groups of Eastern Orthodox women in Finland and their relationship to the Mother of God. The analysis is based on sixty-two ethnographic interviews and nineteen written narratives. The focus is on two groups in two marginal contexts within Orthodoxy: women converted from the...
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croxfordunivpr:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198792550.013.48 2024-09-15T18:35:54+00:00 The Mother of God in Finnish Orthodox Women’s Lived Piety Converted and Skolt Sámi Voices Vuola, Elina Maunder, Chris 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198792550.013.48 en eng Oxford University Press The Oxford Handbook of Mary page 194-212 ISBN 9780198792550 reference-entry 2019 croxfordunivpr https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198792550.013.48 2024-07-08T04:26:02Z The chapter analyses two groups of Eastern Orthodox women in Finland and their relationship to the Mother of God. The analysis is based on sixty-two ethnographic interviews and nineteen written narratives. The focus is on two groups in two marginal contexts within Orthodoxy: women converted from the Lutheran Church and the indigenous Skolt Sámi women in northeastern Lapland (all cradle Orthodox). Both contexts reflect a broader ethno-cultural process of identity formation. The converted women tend to reflect on their image of the Mother of God in relation to their previous Lutheran identity, in which the Virgin Mary plays a marginal role. In Skolt Sámi Orthodoxy, the figure of the Mother of God is less accentuated than St Tryphon, their patron saint. The Orthodox faith and tradition in general have been central for the Skolts in the course of their traumatic history. Book Part Skolt Sámi Lapland Oxford University Press 194 212 |
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The chapter analyses two groups of Eastern Orthodox women in Finland and their relationship to the Mother of God. The analysis is based on sixty-two ethnographic interviews and nineteen written narratives. The focus is on two groups in two marginal contexts within Orthodoxy: women converted from the Lutheran Church and the indigenous Skolt Sámi women in northeastern Lapland (all cradle Orthodox). Both contexts reflect a broader ethno-cultural process of identity formation. The converted women tend to reflect on their image of the Mother of God in relation to their previous Lutheran identity, in which the Virgin Mary plays a marginal role. In Skolt Sámi Orthodoxy, the figure of the Mother of God is less accentuated than St Tryphon, their patron saint. The Orthodox faith and tradition in general have been central for the Skolts in the course of their traumatic history. |
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