Religion, Spirituality, and Gender beyond Dichotomies

Autor(en)

Sabine Grenz, Mia Liinason, Nella van den Brandt , Maki Kimura, Olga Sasunkevich, Konstanze Hanitzsch

Abstrakt

Nella van den Brandt, Sabine Grenz, Konstanze Hanitzsch, Eline Huygens, Maki Kimura, Mia Liinason, and Olga Sasunkevich Religion, Spirituality, and Gender beyond Dichotomies
While the secular and the religious have previously held a marginalized position within the field of gender studies, we can now observe a growing interest in religion and spirituality within academic and activist feminism, as well as critical reflection on the emancipatory potential of secularity. This roundtable paper, emerging from discussions in the research network “Transforming Values: Gender, Secularities and Religiosities across
the Globe,” takes this interest seriously by providing a space to collectively reflect on and develop interdisciplinary and trans-regional conversations on the intricate dynamics of secularity, religiosity, and gender, and new approaches to explore these relation- ships. The discussion explores the entanglements and borders of religions and secularities in everyday life as well as in art, culture, and knowledge production. The discussion highlights religion as a form of resistance against colonization, drawing on the Sámi revival in Norway; explores method- ological issues of ethnographic research with people interested in marginalized religion and spirituality in Germany; examines the rise of right-wing politics in Japan; explores the potential of gender studies for a critical spirituality and the use of witchcraft and magic as empowerment; untangles the gendered and racial fault lines that emerge from discussions about experiences of religion and secularity in Belgium; and inquires into the role of the Russian Orthodox Church in anti-gender and homo- phobic nationalist discourse and the spiritual search of Russian queers beyond Russian Orthodoxy.
Keywords: gender, postsecularity, religion, knowledge, activism, intersectionality

Organisation(en)

Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie, Institut für Bildungswissenschaft

Externe Organisation(en)

Lund University, Utrecht University, Coventry University, University College London, University of Gothenburg, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Seiten

121-156

Anzahl der Seiten

35

Publikationsdatum

2024

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

504014 Gender Studies, 603909 Religionswissenschaft

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/bedd7034-cf86-4f68-82e0-d5b3a05dda06