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Lifelong Religion as Habitus: Religious Practice Among Displaced Karelian Orthodox Women in Finland

By Helena Kupari

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2016
ISBN
900432142X, 9789004321427
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
961 kB (984141 bytes)
Series
Studies in the history of religions
Pages
206\206
Time added
2018-05-11 02:40:55
CommunismFinlandKareliarefugeesReligious PersecutionSoviet UnionWomen

Description

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."

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