2014/12/21 by Cécile Vaissié · 2 citations
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Religion and Society Interactions #Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment #American Constitutional Law and Politics #Sociology #Gender studies #Human sexuality #Masculinity #Queer #Postmodernism #Sociology of religion #Intersectionality #Cultural studies #Field (mathematics) #Perspective (graphical) #Social science #Epistemology #Anthropology
paper · doi:10.18352/rg.9255
published in Religion and Gender 4(2), 166 (Utrecht University Library Open Access Journals (Publishing Services))
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The arrest of the members of Pussy Riot, their imprisonment and their trial has attracted great interest worldwide, and some commentators pointed out that the young women in this feminist punk band could be considered as the heirs to the Russian dissidents. The article explores this link further and shows that the action which made this feminist punk band famous can indeed be seen as a continuation of the combat of dissidents who, as of the mid-1960s, fought for the genuine independence of the Russian Orthodox Church from the State, and who denounced the infiltration of the Church by the KGB, an infiltration that the Church itself has never publicly condemned. Therefore the various predecessors of Pussy Riot include an archbishop, priests, lay people such as Solzhenitsyn, young hippyish intellectuals, and – already – feminist believers.