anthropology of religion

“Vocation in the Flesh”: Gender and Embodiment in Religious Anthropology of Contemporary Catholicism

In the early and medieval Christian tradition, the gendered body was understood as both an obstacle to the cultivation of virtues and a potential medium of transgression. The contemporary Catholic anthropology has another view of the subject’s body and its senses and desires. This article is concerned with the pastoral project of encouraging priestly and monastic callings in the Russian Catholic parishes. It also specifically looks at its rhetoric, placing significant emphasis on gendered embodiment.

The First Russian Female Scholars of Religion and Their Academic Legacy

This article is devoted to the study of the academic careers and public activities of three Russian female scholars, Nadejda Brullova- Shaskolskaya, Sara Ratner-Shternberg and Vera Kharuzina, in the context of the history of Russian religious studies in the mid-19th to early 20th centuries. Theirs was some of the first research work in Russia that highlighted the new science of religion.

From «Folk Religiosity» to «Lived Religion»: Terminological Debate within the Polish Anthropology of Religion

From «Folk Religiosity» to «Lived Religion»: Terminological Debate within the Polish Anthropology of Religion

Forgotten Time, or Techniques of the Self in Contemporary Orthodox Convents

The Female Spiritual Elder and Death: Some Thoughts About Contemporary Lives of Russian Orthodox Saints