RT Article
T1 Women on the Fault Lines of Faith: Pussy Riot and the Insider/Outsider Challenge to Post-Soviet Orthodoxy
JF Religion & gender
VO 4
IS 2
SP 121
OP 144
A1 Shevzov, Vera 1960-
LA English
YR 2014
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1741633621
AB This article examines the explosive reaction to ‘Punk Prayer’ as a religious act. It argues that the power of the performance as iconoclash resulted from the fact that it tapped, resonated with and disturbed Russia’s Orthodox culture through its appropriation of Orthodox sound, space and symbols - namely, the image of Mary, the Mother of God. The perceived position of its performers as insiders or outsiders to Orthodoxy, the evaluation of the sincerity of Punk Prayer as prayer and the paradoxical role that gender played in shaping these perceptions contributed to the tumultuous response.
K1 Orthodoxy
K1 Punk Prayer
K1 Pussy Riot
K1 Virgin Mary
K1 Feminism
K1 Sacred Space
DO 10.1163/18785417-00402004