Afterword: Giving Voice: The Contested Sites of Motherhood, Religion and Spirituality
This afterword offers a reflective response to the methods and thematic content of the papers collected in this special issue on motherhood, religions and spirituality. It suggests that by using qualitative interviews to give voice to (other) women as well as to mothers themselves, the issue counter...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2016]
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Religion & gender
Year: 2016, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 112-117 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Motherhood
/ Femininity
/ Feminism
/ Religion
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion NBE Anthropology ZB Sociology |
| Further subjects: | B
Resistance
B Ethics B Feminist Theory B Diversity B Mothering B Religion B the maternal |
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| Summary: | This afterword offers a reflective response to the methods and thematic content of the papers collected in this special issue on motherhood, religions and spirituality. It suggests that by using qualitative interviews to give voice to (other) women as well as to mothers themselves, the issue counters the traditional silencing of female and maternal experience. This feminist gesture echoes the corporeal generosity of birth as well as the dependency and relationality of the maternal scene. The response foregrounds the issue’s attentiveness to both the diverse intersections of mothering, religion and spiritual practice and the diversity of those who mother. It seeks to situate the resulting complexity in relation to a range of theoretical reference points (philosophical and theological; feminist, womanist, and queer) and concludes that, collectively, these papers present mothering as a site both of contestation and of precarious promise. |
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| ISSN: | 1878-5417 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion & gender
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.18352/rg.10129 |