Ulrike E Auga

An Epistemology of Religion and Gender

Biopolitics, Performativity and Agency

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Produktbeschreibung

This book puts forward a new epistemological framework for a theory of religion and gender's role in the public sphere

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 685g
• ISBN-13: 9780367226176
• ISBN-10: 0367226170
• Artikelnr.: 59424201

Autorenporträt

Ulrike E. Auga is visiting Professor at the Intersectional Centre for Inclusion and Social Justice (INCISE) at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK, and the Centre for Gender Studies and the Advancement of Women at the University Salzburg, Germany. She is also a fellow in the Centre for transdisciplinary Gender Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin and the Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton. She has written multiple books and articles on religion and gender and was awarded the Kaethe-Leichter, Mary-Douglas and Dietrich-Bonhoeffer Prizes as well as the Humboldt-Princeton-Strategic-Partnership-Grant.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction; Part I Theory of Religion as Theory of Knowledge; 2
Tensions in the Study of Gender, Religion and Theology; 3 Gender and
Religion as Categories of Knowledge. Deconstruction, Discourse Analysis,
Intersectionality, Deessentialisation, Disidentification and the Critique
of Ancient Texts; 4 The Political-Performative Power of Language,
Appropriation, Cultures of Translation and Travelling Theory. The Discourse
of the "Bible in Just Language" against Gender and Social Exclusions and
Anti-Judaism; Part II Religion, Secularity and Gender after the
Post-Secular Turn; 5 Fundamentalisms and Secularisms. Sovereign Power,
Biopolitical Citizenship and the Possibilities of Subaltern Agency; 6 The
New Role of Religion in the Public Sphere. Redefining Secularity and
Secularisms in Europe and Beyond; Part III Religion, Gender,
Neo-Nationalisms and Biopolitics; 7 Religious Legitimation of National
Gender Construction. Masculine Hegemony in the South African Truth and
Reconciliation Commission - Christianity versus Ubuntu; 8 Biopolitical
Interferences of Nation States and Dominant Religious Institutions. The
Epistemological Challenge of Queer Parenthood and Rainbow Children; 9 Human
Rights, Gender and Religion. Controversies in Political, Social, Cultural
and Sexuality Discources; Part IV Religion, Gender, Activism and the
Multiplicity of Agency; 10 Religion, Gender and the Peaceful Revolution of
1989. On the Conflictual Relationships between Feminisms and Theologies in
East and West Germany; 11 Imagining Futures through the Multitude.
Religion, Gender and Agency in the Occupy Wall Street Movement; 12
Decolonising Public Space. A Critique of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's and Gayatri
Ch. Spivak's Concepts of Resistance, Religion and Gender; 13 Connecting
Activism with Postcolonial, Post-Secular and Queer Epistemology. Resistance
and the Radical Social Imaginary in Eastern European Dissidence and New
Social Movements; Part V Religion, Gender, Visual Culture and
Performativity; 14 Creating Archives of Agency Photography after the
Post-Secular Turn. On the Performativity of Tattoos, Textiles and Islam in
Mali