Religious cultures and gender cultures: tracing gender differences across religious cultures
This special issue of the Journal of Contemporary Religion focuses on varying empirical connections and theoretical relations between 'religion' and 'gender'. The introduction to this special issue suggests a theoretical approach which is sensitive to culture by drawing on a phen...
| Published in: | Journal of contemporary religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Carfax Publ.
2019
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| In: |
Journal of contemporary religion
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Religion
/ Culture
/ Gender
/ Social network
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion |
| Further subjects: | B
Islam
B Religious Knowledge B symbolic boundary-making B Religion B Gender B Globalisation B Culture |
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| Summary: | This special issue of the Journal of Contemporary Religion focuses on varying empirical connections and theoretical relations between 'religion' and 'gender'. The introduction to this special issue suggests a theoretical approach which is sensitive to culture by drawing on a phenomenological understanding of culture that is based on knowledge and meaning production and sense making. At first sight, this may not sound convincing because 'culture' is a category that is most notably used in combination with religion and gender in culturalist ways. In the migration societies of contemporary Europe, religion has become a metaphor for cultural difference and symbolic boundary-making. The core element of this approach is the conceptualisation of culture as a social web consisting of symbolic forms based on signs of meaning that shape social action, orientation, and experience in the world, including the religious sphere. This entails an understanding of religion as a distinct province of meaning that is structured by processes of social symbolisation just like any other sphere of life. This approach reveals that culturalist conceptions of both religion and gender have specific social meanings as meaningful signs in the symbolic order of secular modernity. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-9419 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of contemporary religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2019.1621540 |