Women and Orthodox dissent: The case of the Archangelist underground movement in Soviet Moldavia

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dc.contributor.authorKapalĪŒ, James A.
dc.contributor.funderEuropean Research Councilen
dc.contributor.funderHorizon 2020en
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-25T10:26:09Z
dc.date.available2021-05-25T10:26:09Z
dc.date.issued2021-11-02
dc.date.updated2021-05-25T10:01:28Z
dc.descriptionThis research is part of the project Creative Agency and Religious Minorities: Hidden Galleries in the Secret Police Archives in Central and Eastern Europe. The project has received funding from the European Research 2020 research and innovation programme No. 677355.en
dc.description.abstractThis chapter addresses the transformation of the religious landscape in Soviet Moldavia from the perspective of gender dynamics. Based on the testimonies of a group of women from the Turkish-speaking Gagauz Orthodox Christian minority, I explore their responses to the Khrushchev-era anti-religious campaigns of the 1950s and 1960s which resulted in membership of an underground Orthodox dissent movement commonly referred to as Archangelism. The term domestication has been used by a number of scholars of religion to describe the relocation of religion to the domestic sphere during communism and the enhanced role played in ritual and practice by women during this period. In Moldova, however, an Orthodox religious underground with strong female figures had already emerged during the right-wing dictatorship that preceded Soviet rule. In this chapter, I suggest that our understanding of domestic religion during communism should be expanded to include an awareness of earlier forms of Orthodox dissent in which the domestic sphere had become an important characteristic of the religious field. In so doing, I highlight some of the diverse ways in which the agency of Orthodox women shaped the religious field in Moldova in the twentieth century.en
dc.description.statusNot peer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationKapalĪŒ, J. A. (2021) 'Women and Orthodox Dissent: The Case of the Archangelist Underground Movement in Soviet Moldavia', in Merdjanova, I. (ed.), Women and Religiosity in Orthodox Christianity, Fordham University Press. isbn: 9780823298617en
dc.identifier.endpage27en
dc.identifier.isbn9780823298617
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/11378
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherFordham University Pressen
dc.relation.ispartofWomen and Religiosity in Orthodox Christianity
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020::ERC::ERC-STG/677355/EU/Creative Agency and Religious Minorities: ‘hidden galleries’ in the secret police archives in 20th Century Central and Eastern Europe/Hidden Galleriesen
dc.relation.urihttps://www.fordhampress.com/9780823298617/women-and-religiosity-in-orthodox-christianity/
dc.rightsŠ Fordham University Press 2021en
dc.subjectArchangelismen
dc.subjectRussianen
dc.subjectOrthodoxyen
dc.subjectMoldovaen
dc.subjectDissenten
dc.subjectInochentismen
dc.subjectRomaniaen
dc.titleWomen and Orthodox dissent: The case of the Archangelist underground movement in Soviet Moldaviaen
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