Pussy Riot's Theology
http://chronicle.com/article/Pussy-Riots-Theology/134398/ By Timothy Beal On February 21, a week before the beginning of Eastern Christianity's Great Lent, five members of the guerrilla feminist punk collective Pussy Riot walked into Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Savior, took off their winter gear, put brightly colored balaclavas over their heads, walked up to the altar, and started jumping around, punching and kicking the air, and kneeling and genuflecting while being videotaped from several angles by other group members. Almost immediately, security personnel stopped them. It was all over in about 30 seconds. By the end of the day, the group had used the shots to create a "punk prayer" music video on YouTube called "Mother of God, Put Putin Away," condemning Russian Orthodoxy's ties to the Putin regime, describing the church's teaching that women must "know your place in the birthing ward" as "holy s---," declaring t...