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Gender and Power in Contemporary Spirituality - Ethnographic Approaches (Paperback)
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Gender and Power in Contemporary Spirituality - Ethnographic Approaches (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Religion
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This book explores the entanglements of gender and power in
spiritual practices and analyzes strategies used by spiritual
practitioners to attain what to social scientists might seem an
impossible goal: creating spiritual communities without creating
gendered hierarchies. What strategies do people within these
networks use to attain gender equality and gendered empowerment?
How do they try to protect and develop individual freedom? How do
gender and power nevertheless play a role? The chapters in this
book together and separately demonstrate that, in order to
understand contemporary spirituality, the analytical lenses of
gender and power are essential. Furthermore, they show that it is
not possible to make a clear distinction between established
religions and contemporary spirituality: the two sometimes overlap,
and at other times spirituality distances itself from religion
while reproducing some of its underlying interpretative frameworks.
This book does not take the discourses of spiritual practitioners
for granted, yet recognizes the reflexivity of spiritual
practitioners and the reciprocal relationship between spirituality
and disciplines such as anthropology. The ethnographic descriptions
of lived spirituality included in this volume span a wide range of
countries, from Portugal, Italy, and the Netherlands to Mexico and
Israel.
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