Finnish Women Making Religion Between Ancestors and Angels [Hardcover]

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.Introduction: Critical and Creative Turns; Terhi Utriainen, P?ivi Salmesvuori, and Helena Kupari PART I 1. Feeding the Dead : Women Doing Religion and Kinship in Traditional Russian Orthodox Karelia; Marja-LiisaKein?nen 2. Convincing One's Self and Other People: The Case of Trance Preacher Helena Konttinen; P?ivi Salmesvuori 3. Alexandra Gripenberg's Feminist Christianity; Tiina Kinnunen PART II 4. Our Life Work : Professional Women and Christian Values in Early Twentieth-Century Finland; Heini Hakosalo 5. A Touch of the Spiritual World : An Anthroposophical Core in the Life and Work of Kersti Bergroth (18861975); Tiina Mahlam?ki 6. Intersections of Gender, Religion, and Ethnicity in Christian Missions; Seija Jalagin PART III 7.'I Was Both Lutheran and Orthodox': Evacuee Karelian Orthodox Women, Bidenominational Families, and the Making of Religion; Helena Kupari 8. Life-Based; Theology of Finnish Women Theologians; Anni Tsokkinen 9. Servants and Agents: Gender Roles in Neocharismatic Christianity; Tuija Hovi PART IV 10. Finnish Women Sacralizing Nature; Heikki Pesonen and Terhi Utriainen 11. Finnish Women's Turn toward India: Negotiations between Lutheran Christianity and Indian Spirituality; Johanna Ahonen 12. Angels, Agency, and Emotions: Global Religion for Women in Finland?; Terhi UtriainenJohanna Ahonen, University of Turku, FinlandHeini Hakosalo, University of Oulu, FinlandTuija Hovi, ?bo Akademi University, FinlandSeija Jalagin, University of Oulu, FinlandMarja-Liisa Kein?nen, Stockholm University, SwedenTiina Kinnunen, University of Jyv?skyl?, FinlandHelena Kupari, University of Helsinki, FinlandTiina Mahlam?ki, University of Turku, FinlandHeikki Pesonen, University of Helsinki, FinlandAnni Tsokkinen, Diaconia University,ló¬