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Finnish Women Making Religion puts forth the complex intersections that Lutheranism, the most important religious tradition in Finland, has had with other religions as well as with the larger society and politics also internationally.

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Introduction: Critical and Creative Turns; Terhi Utriainen, Päivi Salmesvuori, and Helena Kupari PART I 1. "Feeding the Dead": Women "Doing" Religion and Kinship in Traditional Russian Orthodox Karelia; Marja-LiisaKeinänen 2. Convincing One´s Self and Other People: The Case of Trance Preacher Helena Konttinen; Päivi Salmesvuori 3. Alexandra Gripenberg´s Feminist Christianity; Tiina Kinnunen PART II 4. "Our Life Work": Professional Women and Christian Values in Early Twentieth-Century Finland; Heini Hakosalo 5. "A Touch of the Spiritual World": An Anthroposophical Core in the Life and Work of Kersti Bergroth (1886-1975); Tiina Mahlamäki 6. Intersections of Gender, Religion, and Ethnicity in Christian Missions; Seija Jalagin PART III 7.´I Was Both Lutheran and Orthodox´: Evacuee Karelian Orthodox Women, Bidenominational Families, and the Making of Religion; Helena Kupari 8. Life-Based; Theology of Finnish Women Theologians; Anni Tsokkinen 9. Servants and Agents: Gender Roles in Neocharismatic Christianity; Tuija Hovi PART IV 10. Finnish Women Sacralizing Nature; Heikki Pesonen and Terhi Utriainen 11. Finnish Women´s Turn toward India: Negotiations between Lutheran Christianity and Indian Spirituality; Johanna Ahonen 12. Angels, Agency, and Emotions: Global Religion for Women in Finland?; Terhi Utriainen

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Johanna Ahonen, University of Turku, Finland Heini Hakosalo, University of Oulu, Finland Tuija Hovi, �bo Akademi University, Finland Seija Jalagin, University of Oulu, Finland Marja-Liisa Keinänen, Stockholm University, Sweden Tiina Kinnunen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland Helena Kupari, University of Helsinki, Finland Tiina Mahlamäki, University of Turku, Finland Heikki Pesonen, University of Helsinki, Finland Anni Tsokkinen, Diaconia University, Finland

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