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

Contributor(s): Fedele, Anna | Knibbe, Kim E
Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge studies in religion: 26.Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2013Description: x, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780415659475; 0415659477Subject(s): Sex role -- Religious aspects | Power (Social sciences) | Spirituality | Spiritual life | Religions | ReligionDDC classification: 200.81 LOC classification: BL65.S4 | G45 2013Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-229) and index.
Contents:
Cultivating the sacred : gender, power and ritualization in goddess-oriented groups / Åsa Trulsson -- Spirituality within religion : gendered responses to a Greek 'spiritual revolution' / Eugenia Roussou -- Individual spirituality and religious membership among Soka Gakkai Buddhists in Spain / Monica Cornejo -- The power of submission? : personal growth and the issue of power among Umbanda practitioners in Paris / Viola Teisenhoffer -- "Black" Madonna versus "white" Madonna : gendered power strategies in alternative pilgrimages to Marian shrines / Anna Fedele -- From crisis to charisma : redefining hegemonic ideas of science, freedom and gender among mediumistic healers in Germany / Ehler Voss -- Spirituality, charisma and gender in a Jewish spiritual renewal community in Israel / Rachel Werczberger -- Urban witchcraft and the issue of authority / Victoria Hegner -- Gender and power : Brahma Kumaris spirituality and Hinduism in Portugal / Inês Lourenço -- Obscuring the role of power and gender in contemporary spiritualities / Kim Knibbe -- In search of spirituality in northeastern Mexico : religious change and masculinity among addicts in recovery / Ethan P. Sharp.

Volume is the outcome of a panel entitled "Spirituality against religion: the role of gender and power" at the eleventh biennial conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists held in Maynooth (Ireland) in August 2010.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-229) and index.

Cultivating the sacred : gender, power and ritualization in goddess-oriented groups / Åsa Trulsson -- Spirituality within religion : gendered responses to a Greek 'spiritual revolution' / Eugenia Roussou -- Individual spirituality and religious membership among Soka Gakkai Buddhists in Spain / Monica Cornejo -- The power of submission? : personal growth and the issue of power among Umbanda practitioners in Paris / Viola Teisenhoffer -- "Black" Madonna versus "white" Madonna : gendered power strategies in alternative pilgrimages to Marian shrines / Anna Fedele -- From crisis to charisma : redefining hegemonic ideas of science, freedom and gender among mediumistic healers in Germany / Ehler Voss -- Spirituality, charisma and gender in a Jewish spiritual renewal community in Israel / Rachel Werczberger -- Urban witchcraft and the issue of authority / Victoria Hegner -- Gender and power : Brahma Kumaris spirituality and Hinduism in Portugal / Inês Lourenço -- Obscuring the role of power and gender in contemporary spiritualities / Kim Knibbe -- In search of spirituality in northeastern Mexico : religious change and masculinity among addicts in recovery / Ethan P. Sharp.

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