Title
Post-secular Feminist Research: The Concept of “Lived” Religion and Double Critique
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.
Keywords
feminismpostsecularitylived religionagencydouble critiqueintersectionality
Object type
Language
English [eng]
Persistent identifier
https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:2063092
Appeared in
Title
Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society
Volume
9
Issue
2
ISSN
2365-3140
Issued
2023
From page
467
To page
490
Publisher
Brill Deutschland GmbH
Date issued
2023
Access rights
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© SABINE GRENZ, 2023

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