Holly Raabe

Witches Heathens and Shamans

Religious Experience and Gender Identity among Contemporary Pagans in the United States

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the relationships between religious experience and gender identity among contemporary Pagans in America. Personal experience, specifically spiritual experience, is fundamental in how Pagans described not only their spirituality but also their identities. In a social context where the mind is viewed as sacred and the body as profane, contemporary Pagans are challenging hegemonic beliefs. Through linguistic adaptation and linguistic appropriation, men and women in the Pagan community outline new identities for themselves. In the same way that Pagans understand their spirituality through bodily experience, gender and sexuality are also understood through personal experience. Because of the primacy of experience contemporary Pagans have created new frames for understanding, discussing and validating forms of gender and sexuality that are often framed as "alternative."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 120
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 176g
• ISBN-13: 9783838394169
• ISBN-10: 383839416X
• Artikelnr.: 31494409

Autorenporträt

Holly Raabe received her Master''s Degree in Anthropology and her Graduate certificate in Woman''s Studies from Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, where she still resides. She continues to spend time within the Pagan community in Minneapolis, Minnesota, focusing on expressions of spirituality, gender and sexuality.