Shifting agency: male clergy, female believers, and the role of icons

In Eastern Orthodox traditions, an icon is a religious image, a depiction of a saint or a significant event. Icons are deployed by believers as symbols, teaching tools, and aids to concentration, but they can also function as social agents that decentralize authority normally concentrated in jurisdi...

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Main Author: Weaver, Dorothy C. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Taylor & Francis [2011]
In: Material religion
Year: 2011, Volume: 7, Issue: 3, Pages: 394-419
Further subjects:B Eastern Orthodoxy
B Authority
B Icons
B Women and religion
B Gender
B Russia
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