Women's Religions in the Mists of Avalon: Marion Zimmer Bradley's Postsecular Fantasy
This article re-examines the relative roles of religion and feminism in Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon (1982). Whereas previous critics have descried an incomplete feminist project overcome by the capitulation to Christianity, the supposed "capitulation" can be re-interpr...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Notre Dame
2019
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Religion & literature
Year: 2019, Volume: 51, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-23 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bradley, Marion Zimmer 1930-1999, The mists of Avalon
/ Paganism
/ Woman
/ Religiosity
/ Feminism
/ Post-secularism
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion AZ New religious movements |
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MISTS of Avalon, The (Book)
B POSTSECULARISM in literature B BRADLEY, Marion Zimmer, 1930-1999 B RELIGIOUS mysteries in literature B FEMINISM & religion |
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| Summary: | This article re-examines the relative roles of religion and feminism in Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon (1982). Whereas previous critics have descried an incomplete feminist project overcome by the capitulation to Christianity, the supposed "capitulation" can be re-interpreted as an investment in a heterodox, esoteric form of religious truth. The article further considers how these religious explorations contribute towards theorizations of the postsecular, by means of heterodox challenges to neat divides between the secular and the religious. As a whole, Bradley's postsecular fantasy revises the presumed equivalence between secularity and skepticism; instead, the novel offers a plea for the continued acknowledgement of religious mysteries. |
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| ISSN: | 2328-6911 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion & literature
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/rel.2019.0002 |