Lifelong religion as habitus : religious practice among displaced Karelian Orthodox women in Finland / Helena Kupari.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Kupari, Helena, author.

Series:

• Numen Book Series 153.
• Numen book series, 0169-8834 ; v. 153

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Christian women--Spiritual life.
• Karelians--Finland.
• Women in the Orthodox Eastern Church--Finland.
• Orthodox Eastern Church--Finland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (VI, 198 pages) : kaart.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

• Brill 2016
• Boston, Massachusetts : Brill, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this book, Helena Kupari examines the lived religion of Finnish, evacuee Karelian Orthodox women through an innovative reading and application of Pierre Bourdieu’s practice theory. After the Second World War, Finland ceded most of its Karelian territories to the Soviet Union. Over 400,000 Finns, including two thirds of the Finnish Orthodox Christians, lost their homes. This book traces the ways in which the religion of Orthodox women was affected by their displacement and their experiences as members of the Orthodox minority in post-war and contemporary Finland. It contributes to theoretical discussions on lived religion by producing an account of lifelong minority religion as habitus, or an embodied and practical “sense of religion”.

Contents:

• Preliminary Material
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Practice, Habitus, and Lived Religion
• 3 Studying Displaced Karelian Orthodox Women
• 4 Everyday Religious Practice
• 5 Childhood Religion, Minority Setting
• 6 Mothers Doing Religion
• 7 The Practice of Belief
• 8 Lifelong Religion and Change
• 9 Conclusions
• Sources
• Bibliography
• Index.

Notes:

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International CC BY-NC 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode
• Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.
• Description based on print version record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9789004326743
• 900432674X

OCLC:

961906033

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004326743 DOI

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access