Finnish Women Making Religion

Introduction: Critical and Creative Turns; Terhi Utriainen, Päivi Salmesvuori, and Helena Kupari PART I 1. "Feeding the Dead": Women "Doing" Religion and Kinship in Traditional Russian Orthodox Karelia; Marja-LiisaKeinänen 2. Convincing One's Self and Other People: The Case of Trance Preacher Helena Konttinen; Päivi 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 (1886–1975); Tiina Mahlamäki 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 Utriainen