What space for female subjectivity in the post-secular?
2019 (English)In: Theory, Culture and Society. Explorations in Critical Social Science, ISSN 0263-2764, E-ISSN 1460-3616, Vol. 36, no 7-8, p. 173-192, article id UNSP 0263276419873127Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
This article heeds previous calls for revitalized feminist accounts of gender and religion. Having identified post-secular female pilgrimages as practices that actuate a 'third space', we claim that it is a space that cannot be adequately theorized from within secular feminist perspectives and attendant conceptions of subjectivity, agency and autonomy. Nor do perspectives from religious studies and its conceptions of piety as expressions of subjectivity, agency and autonomy do justice to the spatialities and subjectivities of post-secular female pilgrims. The article aligns itself with the budding field of critical feminist studies of post-secularism. We argue that, in general, both the protagonists and the detractors of post-secularism fail to recognize feminist theorizations of religion, the post-secular debate in feminist studies, and the place and role of women in the emergence of the post-secular. Whence, our neologism post-sexularism.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Sage Publications, 2019. Vol. 36, no 7-8, p. 173-192, article id UNSP 0263276419873127
Keywords [en]
agency and autonomy, female pilgrimages, female subjectivities, gender and religion, post-secular turn, post-sexularism
National Category
Gender Studies Philosophy, Ethics and Religion Human Geography
Research subject
Human Geography
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-76208DOI: 10.1177/0263276419873127ISI: 000492517100001OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-76208DiVA, id: diva2:1384160
2020-01-092020-01-092020-07-13Bibliographically approved