Gender and power in contemporary spirituality : ethnographic approaches / / edited by Anna Fedele and Kim E. Knibbe

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465414703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• ISBN: 0-203-07465-3; 1-299-28003-X; 1-135-11453-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (246 p.)
• Collana: Routledge studies in religion ; ; 26
• Altri autori (Persone): FedeleAnna; KnibbeKim E
• Disciplina: 200.81
• Soggetti: Sex role - Religious aspects; Power (Social sciences); Spirituality; Spiritual life; Religions; Religion; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-229) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Gender and Power in Contemporary Spirituality; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Gender and Power in Contemporary Spirituality; 1 Cultivating the Sacred: Gender, Power and Ritualization in Goddess-Oriented Groups; 2 Spirituality within Religion: Gendered Responses to a Greek 'Spiritual Revolution'; 3 Individual Spirituality and Religious Membership among Soka Gakkai Buddhists in Spain; 4 The Power of Submission? Personal Growth and the Issue of Power among Umbanda Practitioners in Paris; 5 "Black" Madonna versus "White" Madonna: Gendered Power Strategies in Alternative Pilgrimages to Marian Shrines6 From Crisis to Charisma: Redefining Hegemonic Ideas of Science, Freedom and Gender among Mediumistic Healers in Germany; 7 Spirituality, Charisma and Gender in a Jewish Spiritual Renewal Community in Israel; 8 Urban Witchcraft and ; the Issue of Authority; 9 Gender and Power: Brahma Kumaris Spirituality and Hinduism in Portugal; 10 Obscuring the Role of Power and Gender in Contemporary Spiritualities; 11 In Search of Spirituality in Northeastern Mexico: Religious Change and Masculinity among Addicts in RecoveryBibliography; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 contem