Gender and Power in Contemporary Spirituality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gender and Power in Contemporary Spirituality write by Anna Fedele. This book was released on 2013. Gender and Power in Contemporary Spirituality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contemporary distinctions between religion and spirituality can often be traced to rebellion against hierarchical institutions with biases towards women and minorities that constrain individual freedom. This opposition is carefully addressed in this volume, with greater attention paid to gender and power in the context of contemporary spirituality and how these relate to the distinction between religion and spirituality.
Secular Societies, Spiritual Selves?
Secular Societies, Spiritual Selves? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Secular Societies, Spiritual Selves? write by Anna Fedele. This book was released on 2020-05-17. Secular Societies, Spiritual Selves? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Powers and Submissions
Powers and Submissions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Powers and Submissions write by Sarah Coakley. This book was released on 2008-04-15. Powers and Submissions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book Sarah Coakley confronts a central paradox of theological feminism - what she terms 'the paradox of power and vulnerability'. Confronts a central paradox of theological feminism – what Coakley terms 'paradox of power and vulnerability'. Explores this issue through the perspective of spiritual practice, philosophical enquiry and doctrinal analysis. Draws together an essential collection of Sarah Coakley's work in this field. Offers an original perspective into contemporary feminist theology.
The Politics of Women's Spirituality
The Politics of Women's Spirituality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics of Women's Spirituality write by Charlene Spretnak. This book was released on 1982. The Politics of Women's Spirituality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Essays discuss goddess worship, spiritual consciousness, the relationship between politics and religion, and applications of spirituality as a political force.
Power, Gender and Christian Mysticism
Power, Gender and Christian Mysticism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Power, Gender and Christian Mysticism write by Grace Jantzen. This book was released on 1995-11-16. Power, Gender and Christian Mysticism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the western Christian tradition, the mystic was seen as having direct access to God, and therefore great authority. In this study, Dr Jantzen discusses how men of power defined and controlled who should count as a mystic, and thus who would have power: women were pointedly excluded. This makes her book of special interest to those in gender studies and medieval history. Its main argument, however, is philosophical. Because the mystical has gone through many social constructions, the modern philosophical assumption that mysticism is essentially about intense subjective experiences is misguided. This view is historically inaccurate, and perpetuates the same gendered struggle for authority which characterises the history of western christendom. This book is the first on the subject to take issues of gender seriously, and to use these as a point of entry for a deconstructive approach to Christian mysticism.
