Post-secular Feminist Research:

Author(s)

Sabine Grenz

Abstract

In feminist research on religion, women and gender, the concepts of "lived religion"as well as "agency as doing religion"take a prominent place. Both include an intersubjective and mostly partial perspective. However, against the background of current developments concerning a global religious right, the paper argues for the inclusion of a critical perspective through the methodology of a double critique that includes both an analysis of power relations that marginalize women in religious groups and an analysis of women's reproduction of gendered as well as racialized power relations. This argument is embedded in the complexity of post-secular feminist research including research on women, gender and religion, feminist critiques of secularism (and of anti- Muslim discourses), feminist, queer and trans theologies, and research on the religious right and their anti-feminist politics. The paper suggests to take feminist theologies and feminist spiritualities/religious practices as reference point for such an analysis.

Organisation(s)

Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Department of Education

Journal

Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society

Volume

97

Pages

1-24

No. of pages

24

ISSN

2365-3140

DOI

https://doi.org/10.30965/23642807-bja10072

Publication date

2023

Peer reviewed

Yes

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

504014 Gender studies, 603909 Religious studies

Keywords

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Religious studies, Social Sciences (miscellaneous)

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 5 - Gender Equality

Portal url

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/postsecular-feminist-research(64a09d4d-c9af-4018-8d56-d3b979e90643).html