Secular Societies, Spiritual Selves?: The Gendered Triangle of Religion, Secularity and Spirituality

Secular Societies, Spiritual Selves?: The Gendered Triangle of Religion, Secularity and Spirituality
ISBN-10
0429853181
ISBN-13
9780429853180
Category
Religion
Pages
240
Language
English
Published
2020-05-17
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
Anna Fedele, Kim E. Knibbe

Description

Secular Societies, Spiritual Selves? is the first volume to address the gendered intersections of religion, spirituality and the secular through an ethnographic approach. The book examines how ‘spirituality’ has emerged as a relatively ‘silent’ category with which people often signal that they are looking for a way to navigate between the categories of the religious and the secular, and considers how this is related to gendered ways of being and relating. Using a lived religion approach the contributors analyse the intersections between spirituality, religion and secularism in different geographical areas, ranging from the Netherlands, Portugal and Italy to Canada, the United States and Mexico. The chapters explore the spiritual experiences of women and their struggle for a more gender equal way of approaching the divine, as well as the experience of men and of those who challenge binary sexual identities advocating for a queer spirituality. This volume will be of interest to anthropologists and sociologists as well as scholars in other disciplines who seek to understand the role of spirituality in creating the complex gendered dynamics of modern societies.

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