Women and Greek Orthodoxy in the Twenty-First Century
Women and Greek Orthodoxy in the Twenty-First Century
Charting Elements of Change
The aim of this chapter is to pinpoint and discuss some of the most important transformations, innovations, and elements of change in the way that lay and monastic women in Greece practice and experience Orthodoxy since the turn of the twenty-first century. It concentrates on three broad areas that have produced the most notable changes in female religiosity: the Greek financial crisis, religious blogging in the digital age, and international monasticism in Greek convents. These phenomena collectively point to the need to abandon the static definition of tradition in Orthodoxy and take into consideration the agentic character of Greek Orthodox women’s religiosity, which unmasks both modern and postmodern elements of tradition.
Keywords: blogging, change, financial crisis, Greek Orthodoxy, international monasticism, women, tradition
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