Re-Envisioning Female Power: Wildness as a Transformative Re-Source in Contemporary Women's Spirituality
Bricolage, the mixing of diverse religious resources, has been highlighted as a key process in contemporary spiritualities. Since, in this process, historically or culturally distant and foreign traditions are self-referentially drawn upon as representatives of a true spirituality deemed lost in the...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Californiarnia Press
[2020]
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Nova religio
Year: 2020, Volume: 23, Issue: 3, Pages: 7-30 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Europe
/ Woman
/ Spirituality
/ Wild women
/ Estés, Clarissa Pinkola 1943-, Women who run with the wolves
/ Wildheit
/ Exoticism
/ Tantrism
/ Wikiversity:Courses
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| IxTheo Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion AZ New religious movements |
| Further subjects: | B
Women Who Run with the Wolves
B Tantra B wild woman B Mimesis B Feminist Spirituality B Jungian archetype B Primitivism B Exoticism B Gender B Alterity B Clarissa Pinkola Estes B Bricolage |
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| Summary: | Bricolage, the mixing of diverse religious resources, has been highlighted as a key process in contemporary spiritualities. Since, in this process, historically or culturally distant and foreign traditions are self-referentially drawn upon as representatives of a true spirituality deemed lost in the materialistic West, exoticism has further been identified as its core feature. In this article, through an in-depth ethnographic study, I examine operations of bricolage and exoticism in spiritual women workshops in North Western Europe that focused on the trope of the "wild woman." In particular, I highlight the transformational power of these retreats in reference to Michael Taussig's notion of mimesis as a sensuous embodiment of imagined otherness. I argue that, through enacting wildness in their bodies, the participants were overtaken by their own—historically determined—imaginations of primitiveness and naturalness, which not only created new visions of the feminine and female power, but also led to important life changes. |
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| ISSN: | 1541-8480 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Nova religio
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1525/nr.2020.23.3.7 |