scholarly journals New Roles for Indigenous Women in an Indian Eco-Religious Movement

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 554
Author(s):  
Radhika Borde
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Women ◽  
Religious Movement ◽  
Religious Authority ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
Sacred Natural Sites ◽  
Cultural Taboos ◽  
Ecological Conservation ◽  
Indian Census ◽  
Earth Goddess ◽  
Political Character

This article aims to study how a movement aimed at the assertion of indigenous religiosity in India has resulted in the empowerment of the women who participate in it. As part of the movement, devotees of the indigenous Earth Goddess, who are mostly indigenous women, experience possession trances in sacred natural sites which they have started visiting regularly. The movement aims to assert indigenous religiosity in India and to emphasize how it is different from Hinduism—as a result the ecological articulations of indigenous religiosity have intensified. The movement has a strong political character and it explicitly demands that indigenous Indian religiosity should be officially recognized by the inclusion of a new category for it in the Indian census. By way of their participation in this movement, indigenous Indian women are becoming figures of religious authority, overturning cultural taboos pertaining to their societal and religious roles, and are also becoming empowered to initiate ecological conservation and restoration efforts.

The Roots of the Sadrist Movement: Muhammad al-Sadr, Religious Authority, and Sociopolitical Practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 365-385
Author(s):  
Harith Hasan
Keyword(s):  
Religious Movement ◽  
Religious Authority ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Grassroots Support

Based on Ba'th Party archival records, interviews, and secondary sources, this article aims to reconstruct and contextualize the story of Muhammad Muhammad Sadiq al-Sadr, the Shi'i cleric who led a grassroots religious movement in the 1990s that still plays a major role in Iraq. The article argues that the Sadrist movement and its project of social Islamization were a result of Sadr's enlistment of grassroots support to challenge his rivals in the Shi'i religious field during a leadership vacuum amid the decline of the clerical establishment's influence.

Indian Brides of Christ: Creating New Spaces for Indigenous Women in New Spain

1999 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asunción Lavrin
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
New Spain ◽  
Racial Prejudice ◽  
Indigenous Women ◽  
Full Membership ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
Gender And Race ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Theological Argument ◽  
The Church

Este artículo analiza la interrelación de los factores de clase, género y raza en la definición de una política de admisión de mujeres indígenas a las órdenes religiosas de la Nueva España. El argumento teológico que permitiría ubicarlas dentro de los parámetros de espiritualidad de la época maduró en el siglo dieciocho. Clase y raza, usadas previamente para excluirlas, fueron utilizadas por sus promotores para su reivindicación y aceptación, a pesar de residuos de prejuicio racial entre algunos miembros de la iglesia y la burocracia. This article discusses the interplay of class, gender, and race in the definition of a policy of admission of indigenous women to full membership in the regular orders in New Spain. A theological argument to accommodate them within the parameters of established spirituality reached its maturity in the eighteenth century. Class and race--previously used to exclude Indian women--were skillfully used to buttress the acceptance of Indian nuns by their supporters, despite residues of racial prejudice among members of the Church and the bureaucracy.

Emotions and Authority in Religious Organisations

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-80
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Halemba
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Religious Movement ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Religious Authority ◽  
Ritual Practice ◽  
Religious Experiences ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Using Data

This article reflects on the place of emotionally arousing ex- periences within religious organisations. Using data obtained through participant observation and interviews, it outlines a research approach for investigations of the interrelationships between particular features of religious practices. Those features have been pointed out in many previous anthropo- logical and sociological works, but few works attempted to analyse connections and interdependencies between con- crete features of religious traditions. The present article takes inspiration from contemporary 'modes of religiosity' theory to explore further the relationships between highly emotion- ally arousing religious experiences and centralised religious authority. Going beyond Whitehouse's theory, it is argued that centralised religious organisations can influence the so- cial features of a religious movement through management of emotionality in ritual practice.

The Utility of Postcolonial and Indigenous Feminist Frameworks in Guiding Nursing Research and Practice About Intimate Partner Violence in the Lives of American Indian Women

2021 ◽  
pp. 104365962199260
Author(s):  
Jeneile Luebke ◽  
Maren Hawkins ◽  
Annita Lucchesi ◽  
Katheryn Klein ◽  
Jennifer Weitzel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Sole Source ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Indigenous Women ◽  
Nursing Research ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Root Cause

The purpose of this theoretical article is to analyze the utility of postcolonial and Indigenous feminist frameworks in informing nursing research and practice specific to addressing intimate partner violence (IPV) in the lives of Indigenous women. Prevailing feminist narratives of the 20th century focused overwhelmingly on patriarchy as the sole source of oppression against women and root cause of IPV. These narratives failed to consider the complex historical ways in which patriarchy intersected with colonialism and racism to produce violence, affecting the contemporary realities of Indigenous women. In contrast, postcolonial and Indigenous feminist frameworks consider the colonial history that has disempowered Indigenous women and their nations over centuries of settler occupation. Situating IPV within historical, legal, social, and political contexts can unmask how current research and health care discourses may continue to constrain, rather than improve, access, care, and services for Indigenous victims of IPV.

Laboring Above Ground: Indigenous Women in New Spain’s Silver Mining District, Zacatecas, Mexico, 1620–1770

2013 ◽  
Vol 93 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana Velasco Murillo
Keyword(s):  
Colonial Period ◽  
Indigenous Women ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Mining District ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
Labor Practices ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Silver Mining ◽  
Primary Caretakers ◽  
The City

Abstract This article considers the roles and experiences of indigenous women in the silver mining town of Zacatecas, Mexico, from the early seventeenth century through the late colonial period (1620–1770). Indigenous women of all ages and civil statuses migrated and settled in Zacatecas through the colonial period. Using Spanish sources, this article highlights the importance of their contributions to the production of silver and to the settlement of the city and its four Indian towns. It argues for a broader understanding of the labor involved in silver production to include activities performed outside the mines by women. Some of this work involved the preparation and distribution of goods and foodstuffs and basic housekeeping at mining haciendas, and women’s engagement with small-scale trade, market activities, and the management of properties in the city. Indian women also contributed to the vitality of the city and its Indian communities, migrating and settling in Zacatecas in large numbers even during periods of mining declines. Within these communities, episodes of high male absenteeism often left Indian women in charge of their households. As primary caretakers, they cared for their children and often used legal measures to protect them from abusive labor practices common to mining towns. Ultimately, this article argues that indigenous women’s roles above ground were as important as those performed by their male, silver-extracting counterparts below ground.

The “power of silence”

Focaal ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2009 (53) ◽  
pp. 56-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Kościańska
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Religious Movement ◽  
Religious Authority ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Liberal Feminism ◽  
Fundamental Component ◽  
Religious Issues ◽  
Feminist Discourse ◽  
Gender Regimes

This article looks at various models of women's agency in Poland in the context of religion. Based on fieldwork among members of two feminized religious milieus—a new religious movement the Brahma Kumaris and an informal Catholic fundamentalist group—this article discusses the role of silence in ritual and everyday life as a form of agency. From the perspective of feminist discourse, particularly Western liberal feminism, silence is often interpreted as a lack of power. Drawing on informants' experiences, under Polish gender regimes, particularly as they relate to the organization of public and private spheres, silence is shown to be a fundamental component of agency. The analysis of silence displays the complexity of religious issues in Poland and serves as a critique of assumptions about religious homogeneity and the pervasiveness of religious authority in Poland.

scholarly journals Tarekat dan Gerakan Sosial Keagamaan Shaykh Hasan Maksum

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 269
Author(s):  
Ja‘far Ja‘far
Keyword(s):  
Great Influence ◽  
Religious Movement ◽  
Religious Authority ◽  
Religious Knowledge ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sufi Order ◽  
Religious Aspects

The article scrutinizes the tarekat (Sufi order) and the social-religious movement of Shaykh Hasan Maksum, a less noticeable Sufi figure within the literatures of tasawuf Nusantara but was an important figure who played essential roles and had great influence within the dynamic of social-religious aspects in East Sumatera. As a mufti-sufi, Shaykh Hasan was a prominent figure within literatures of religious knowledge, mainly theology, fiqh, and Sufism, and had greater influence than other Sufi figures in East Sumatera. It has been a result of his “religious authority”, which covered the entire sultanate’s sway in this region at that time. Shaykh Hasan was a Sufi of the tarekat Naqshabandîyah who held a duty as the mufti of the Deli Sultanate. His spiritual genealogy, unfortunately, has been an unrevealed mystery due to the absence of literatures which inform us the comprehensive biographies of his Sufi teachers. As the proponent of neo-sufisme, he authored a number of works in theology, fiqh, astronomy (falak), and mystical (tasawuf) disciplines. It has been known from his two mystical works that he combined sharî‘ah, tarîqah, and haqîqah, and also emphasized the importance of obedience towards sharî‘ah for mushrif and sâlik in order to achieve “the pearl of Reality”.

Parenthood: Beyond Cultural Taboos, Toward a More Honest Discussion

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 58 (40) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberly A. Kirkland
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Taboos
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