RAPE CULTURE AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES: CRITICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL ENGAGEMENTS. Edited by RhiannonGraybill, MeredithMinister, and BeatriceLawrence. Feminist Studies and Sacred Texts Series, 3. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019. Pp. v + 207. $95.00.

2021 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-216
Keyword(s):  
Religious Studies ◽  
Feminist Studies ◽  
Rape Culture ◽  
Sacred Texts

What Space for Female Subjectivity in the Post-Secular?

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 173-192
Author(s):  
Mats Nilsson ◽  
Mekonnen Tesfahuney
Keyword(s):  
Third Space ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Feminist Studies ◽  
Female Subjectivity ◽  
Feminist Perspectives ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Critical Feminist

This article heeds previous calls for revitalized feminist accounts of gender and religion. Having identified post-secular female pilgrimages as practices that actuate a ‘third space’, we claim that it is a space that cannot be adequately theorized from within secular feminist perspectives and attendant conceptions of subjectivity, agency and autonomy. Nor do perspectives from religious studies and its conceptions of piety as expressions of subjectivity, agency and autonomy do justice to the spatialities and subjectivities of post-secular female pilgrims. The article aligns itself with the budding field of critical feminist studies of post-secularism. We argue that, in general, both the protagonists and the detractors of post-secularism fail to recognize feminist theorizations of religion, the post-secular debate in feminist studies, and the place and role of women in the emergence of the post-secular. Whence, our neologism post-sexularism.

Feminist studies in religion and a radical democratic ethos 1

1995 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 122-144
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
South African ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Feminist Studies ◽  
South African Context ◽  
The South ◽  
African Context ◽  
Just Society ◽  
Institutional Location

AbstractFeminist studies in religion contribute to the fashioning of a radical democratic political culture and the creation of an egalitarian politics of meaning. In the South African context feminist studies are important elements in the emergence of a democratic and just society since they provide a theoretical framework and intellectual space for transforming kyriarchal knowledges and deeply inculcated values of oppression. Several issues are addressed, namely the nature of feminist religious studies, feminist religious studies as a knowledge producing discourse, and the institutional location of feminist studies in religion.

Tara in Vajrayana Buddhism: A Critical Content Analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 096673502110554
Author(s):  
Gurmeet Kaur
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Feminist Studies ◽  
Psychological Consequences ◽  
Divine Feminine ◽  
The People ◽  
Critical Content ◽  
Tibetan Refugees ◽  
Asian Context ◽  
Hindu Deity

Tara is both a Buddhist and Hindu deity. She is widely worshipped in the esoteric branch of Buddhism: Vajrayana. Even in the exile, Tibetan refugees follow the practice and rituals associated with Tara. Lamentably, she has been given an auxiliary and secondary role in comparison to male deities. Various feminist scholars have begun to look at aspects of society through the lens of gender. They have been at the forefront of studying gender roles and its psychological consequences for those who try to abide by them. In religious studies, especially in Asian context, many of these discourses are difficult to perceive because they were unconsciously appropriated as truth by the people of the society in which they circulated as an inviolable aspect of the worlds or as nature. This study is an attempt to examine the representation of Goddess in various ancient texts as essential to the study of the divine feminine. This hybrid study merges traditional Indology with feminist studies, and is intended for specialists in the field, for readers with interest in Buddhist, and for scholars of Gender studies, cultural historians, and sociologists.

Writing Your Own Scripture?

Horizons ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 349-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth P. Kramer
Keyword(s):  
Religious Studies ◽  
Student Responses ◽  
Sacred Texts ◽  
Primary Resource ◽  
The World ◽  
Practical Guidelines

AbstractIs it possible to write contemporary scripture? This discussion highlights the pedagogical value not only of teaching with primary resource materials, but also of having students creatively rewrite sacred texts. First, I discuss the purpose of a religious studies journal, and then provide some practical guidelines for journal-keeping along with suggestions for grading them. Secondly, I focus upon one type of creative journal exercise—rewriting sacred texts. In response to Ira Progoff s statements that we can create the Bibles of the world anew by recording images drawn up from our depth consciousness, I encourage students to write scripture-styled passages which deepen their appreciation for and understanding of sacred texts. To conclude, I provide six sample creative journal exercises, one from each of the sacred texts read in my Eastern Religions classes, along with several student responses.

scholarly journals Sacred Genealogies: Spiritualities, Materiality and the Limits of Western Feminist Frames

PhaenEx ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-72
Author(s):  
CHRISTINA M. HOLMES
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Feminist Studies ◽  
Development Studies ◽  
Spirituality And Religion ◽  
New Material ◽  
Do So

After a turbulent period during which feminist studies disavowed ecofeminism, the field is finding new popularity with strains that have made their way into gender and sustainable development studies and new material feminisms. To do so, they have had to evacuate all traces of spirituality. This essay reviews the circumstances under which spiritual ecofeminisms fell from favor before turning to theologians, religious studies scholars, and Chicana feminist theorists and artists for whom spirituality plays a central role. It asks: how can we take spirituality and religion seriously again in ecofeminism? Is there room to respect spirituality even in feminist environmental safe houses, whether socialist and development oriented or science-infused new material approaches? This essay concludes with artist Amalia Mesa-Bains’s installations as a case study to illustrate what Chicana environmentalisms could teach us about materiality and spirituality within a decolonial framework.  

A Sociology of Sacred Texts

Numen ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Davies
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Academic Press ◽  
Sacred Texts ◽  
Future Conference ◽  
The Social ◽  
Selection Of

AbstractIn 1992 Sheffield Academic Press will publish a selection of the papers given at this Conference, which was held in Newcastle in July 1991. The Conference was organized by the Department of Religious Studies at Newcastle University. The Head of the Department at the time was Professor John Sawyer. The publication will be edited by the new Head of the Department, Jon Davies, and by Isabel Wollaston, currently a British Academy Post Doctoral Fellow at Oxford. Two of our students-Carol Charlton and Michael Burke-worked extra hours to make sure the organisation functioned. Our thanks are due to them and to all participants. This article is in part a summary of the Conference and of those papers which will appear in the book. It is also a contribution in its own right to an understanding of the relationships between the social sciences [sociology and anthropology] and theology. Several cross-cutting social, personal and professional loyalties can, and often do create degrees of distance, dispute and misunderstanding between the two disciplines. As it happens, this Conference managed to find a respectable acreage of common ground; but it is perhaps useful to mention some of the possible areas of controversy, if only because any future conference will probably have to deal with them more directly than we chose to! Readers will of course realise that the book is still being prepared and that the papers discussed here may well be altered or added to. The premise of this article is that all "TEXTS", be they sacred or secular, ancient or modem, canonical or provisional, are the products of human social transactions, a human context, with all that this means for the processes of text-creation and the business of conscious, purposeful, fallible, writing and editing. Texts and contexts change together; and change each other.

scholarly journals PENELITIAN PENDIDIKAN AGAMA DAN KEAGAMAAN: Kritik dan Tawaran Baru

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Agus Maimun
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Sacred Texts ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Modern Development ◽  
The Social ◽  
Muslim Intellectuals ◽  
Geographical Space

<p>It seems that religious and religious education research activities at PTAI are still monotonous and not varied, and each study dimension is fixed only on one approach, and more around research, apologetic, and nonnative, has not yet touched on development and evaluation. Therefore, religious and religious education research in the future is expected to cross between dimensions, such as the modern development of the Islamic world with the dimension of time as well as geographical space. Thus, it would seem that the broad-cultivation dimensions of research are to be researched and developed. Therefore, scientific studies / scientific methods (including in the field of religious and religious education), are not solely conducted with research, but can also be done with development, and evaluation. Similarly, the area of religious studies can be developed in: (1) sacred texts as the source of religious teachings, (2) the Muslim community structure, and (3) the behavior of Muslim society. With the expansion of these areas of study, it is hoped that Muslim intellectuals can reflect that religions considered sacred and always approached with a normative framework (based on sacred texts), should be changed by a proportional approach to the study of the social sciences</p><p>Selama ini terkesan bahwa, kegiatan penelitian pendidikan agama dan keagamaan di PTAI masih bersifat monoton dan tidak variatif, serta pada setiap dimensi kajian hanya terpaku pada satu pendekatan, dan lebih banyak berkisar pada penelitian, apologetik, dan nonnative, belum menyentuh pada pengembangan dan evaluasi. Untuk itu, penelitian pendidikan agama dan keagamaan ke depan diharapkan dapat menyilangkan antar dimensi, misalnya perkembangan modem di dunia Islam dengan dimensi waktu sekaligus ruang geografik. Dengan demikian, akan nampak bahwa, dimensi garapan penelitian culrnp luas untuk diteliti dan dikembangkan. Sebab, pengkajian ilmiah/metode keilmuan (tennasuk dalam bidang pendidikan agama dan keagamaan), tidak semata-mata dilaku.kan dengan penelitian, tetapi juga dapat dilakukan dengan pengembangan, dan evaluasi. Demikian juga wilayah kajian penelitian keagamaan dapat dikembangkan pada: (1) teks-teks suci sebagai sumber ajaran agama, (2) tatanan masyarakat muslim, dan (3) perilaku keagaman masyarakat muslim. Dengan perluasan wilayah kajian tersebut, diharapkan kalangan cendekiawan muslim dapat melakukan refleksi bahwa agama yang dianggap sesuatu yang sacral dan selalu didekati dengan kerangka normatif (berdasar teks-teks suci), harus diubah dengan pendekatan kajian ilmu-ilmu sosial secara proporsional</p>

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