Att analysera och teoretisera kön och religion : Förslag till nytt religionsbegrepp

• While specialists in gender studies often refer to religion they seldom have recourse to carefullyconceived definitions of it. The problem of definition is explored here in terms of its plurality ofexpressions and interpretation, internal tensions and change, and similarities and relations whichcross traditions which are often perceived as being separate and distinct. Myth and ritual are takento be of central importance, both being understood as gendered and bodily constituted. Theoreticalinspiration is drawn from Wittgenstein's understanding of meaning as being constituted contextuallyand bodily and thus inseparable from social life. In this persepctive, religious language is a more orless precise act whose meaning will differ depending on the context, agents and agendas involved.Specific arguments relating to meaning and action are also drawn from the work of M. Douglas andL. Bäckman, both of whom have deconstructed and discussed (post-)colonial conceptualizations ofculture. Their elaboration of potentiality and change has been of special interest. In sum, religion isregarded as (1)a dynamic and ambiguous field of meanings that is continuously created andconstituted through human interaction (2) always gendered (3)bodily expressed and constituted (4)composed of myth, ritual and time concepts (5) a cource of continuity as well as of change inpresent social interaction (6) transmitted and renewed through mytho-poets, and (7)subject toanalysis in terms of power, with reference to social interaction, socioeconomic conditions and thewider context.

Ämnesord

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Annan samhällsvetenskap -- Genusstudier (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Other Social Sciences -- Gender Studies (hsv//eng)

HUMANIORA  -- Filosofi, etik och religion -- Religionsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Philosophy, Ethics and Religion -- Religious Studies (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Gender studies

Genus

Religion/Theology

Religionsvetenskap/Teologi

Etik

Ethics

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