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This book sheds an interdisciplinary light on 'transforming
bodies': bodies that have been subjected to, contributed to, or
have resisted social transformations within religious or secular
contexts in contemporary Europe. It explores the intersections of
race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and religion that underpin
embodied transformations. Using post-secularist, postcolonial and
gender/queer perspectives, it aims to gain a better understanding
of the orchestrations and effects of larger social transitions
related to religion. This volume is the outcome of the intensive
collaboration of the authors, who for years have been meeting
regularly in Utrecht, the Netherlands, to discuss themes related to
religion and 'the challenge of difference', with an added afterword
by Prof. Pamela Klassen from the University of Toronto. The book is
divided in three subsections that focus on particular types of
embodiment: body politics in governmental and NGO organisations;
the role of the body in literary and/or autobiographical
narratives; and ethnographic case studies of bodies in daily life.
Doing so, it provides an innovative exploration of contemporary
religion and the body. It will, therefore, be of great interest to
scholars of Religious Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies,
Post-Colonial Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Theology, and
Philosophy.
The gendered body in its common, everyday activities and references
is the central focus of this book. Recognizing the highly abstract
and often "disembodied" character of contemporary discussions on
the body in relation to gender, subjectivity and discourse, the
authors of this anthology start their inquiries at a more mundane
level by studying "common bodies": human bodies and bodily
practices in daily situations of (domestic) work and care, of sex,
love and violence, and of prayer and ritual. From this angle of
"corporeal agency" they discuss the meaning of religion,
religiosity, transcendence and/or Divinity.
This book sheds an interdisciplinary light on 'transforming
bodies': bodies that have been subjected to, contributed to, or
have resisted social transformations within religious or secular
contexts in contemporary Europe. It explores the intersections of
race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and religion that underpin
embodied transformations. Using post-secularist, postcolonial and
gender/queer perspectives, it aims to gain a better understanding
of the orchestrations and effects of larger social transitions
related to religion. This volume is the outcome of the intensive
collaboration of the authors, who for years have been meeting
regularly in Utrecht, the Netherlands, to discuss themes related to
religion and 'the challenge of difference', with an added afterword
by Prof. Pamela Klassen from the University of Toronto. The book is
divided in three subsections that focus on particular types of
embodiment: body politics in governmental and NGO organisations;
the role of the body in literary and/or autobiographical
narratives; and ethnographic case studies of bodies in daily life.
Doing so, it provides an innovative exploration of contemporary
religion and the body. It will, therefore, be of great interest to
scholars of Religious Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies,
Post-Colonial Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Theology, and
Philosophy.
This concluding volume of the Future of the Religious Past series
approaches contemporary religion through the lens of practice: the
rituals, performances, devotions, and everyday acts through which
humans do religion. In spite of predictions about the inevitability
of secularism, religion in the twenty-first century remains
stubbornly resilient, and Gestures: The Study of Religion as
Practice offers a new vantage point from which to see the religious
as a category shaped and reshaped by modernity and to encounter
religion not as something bounded by doctrines and sacred texts but
as lived experience. Twenty-four globally based scholars look to
practice to examine such diverse phenomena as human rights, memory,
martyrdom, dress and fashion, colonial legacies, blasphemy, mass
political action, and the future of secularism.
This concluding volume of the Future of the Religious Past series
approaches contemporary religion through the lens of practice: the
rituals, performances, devotions, and everyday acts through which
humans do religion. In spite of predictions about the inevitability
of secularism, religion in the twenty-first century remains
stubbornly resilient, and Gestures: The Study of Religion as
Practice offers a new vantage point from which to see the religious
as a category shaped and reshaped by modernity and to encounter
religion not as something bounded by doctrines and sacred texts but
as lived experience. Twenty-four globally based scholars look to
practice to examine such diverse phenomena as human rights, memory,
martyrdom, dress and fashion, colonial legacies, blasphemy, mass
political action, and the future of secularism.
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