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

1st Edition

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

Edited By Anna Fedele, Kim E. Knibbe Copyright 2020
256 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

254 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

254 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction: Spirituality, the Third Category in a Gendered Triangle

Anna Fedele and Kim E. Knibbe

1. Feminist Spirituality as Lived Religion: How UK Feminists Forge Religio-Spiritual Lives

Kristin Aune

2. Goddess Spirituality in Italy: Secular and Spiritual – Two Sides of the Same Coin?

Stefania Palmisano and Roberta Pibiri

3. Healers, Missionaries and Entrepreneurs of the Feminine: The Secularization of Contemporary Women’s Spirituality

Chia Longman

4. The Sacred Feminine in Mexico’s Neopagan Women’s Circles

Renée de la Torre and Cristina Gutiérrez Zúñiga

5. The (B)earth of a Gendered Eco-Spirituality: Globally Connected Ethnographies Between Mexico and the European Alps

Irene Becci, Manéli Farahmand and Alexandre Grandjean

6. Re-enchanted Selves: An Ethnography of Wild Woman Workshops in Belgium

Carine Plancke

7. Gendering the Spiritual Marketplace: Public, Private and In-Between

Laurel Zwissler

8. "God Wants Spiritual Fruits not Religious Nuts": Spirituality as Middle Way Between Religion and Secularism at the Marian Shrine of Fátima

Anna Fedele

9. 'A Merely Private Activity': Spiritual Consumerism as a Way to Transform Gendered Relationships to Secular and Religious Authorities

Kim E. Knibbe

10. Is Yoga a Girl’s Thing?: A Case Study on Working Class Men Doing Yoga in Jail

Mar Griera

11. "Things I Do Are Manifestations of Love": Queer Religiosities and Secular Spirituality Among Montreal Pagans

Martin Lepage

Afterword: To the Vagina Triangle and Beyond!

Linda Woodhead

Biography

Anna Fedele is Senior Researcher at the CRIA-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Portugal. Her research focuses on the intersections of gender and religion with a particular interest for ritual creativity and pilgrimage. She has done fieldwork in Southern Europe and Latin America about holistic spiritualities and Catholicism.

Kim E. Knibbe is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Sociology of Religion at Groningen University, the Netherlands. She is currently directing the project 'Sexuality, Religion and Secularism' (funded by the Netherlands Foundation for Research, NWO). Previous research focused on Catholicism and spirituality in the Netherlands and on Nigerian Pentecostalism in Europe and the Netherlands.

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