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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Main Author: Jones, Rachel (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2016]
In: Religion & gender
Year: 2016, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 112-117
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Motherhood / Femininity / Feminism / Religion
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.
ISSN:1878-5417
Contains:Enthalten in: Religion & gender
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.18352/rg.10129