Laurel Zwissler
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1128751 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Laurel Zwissler |
| PRENOMES | Laurel |
| SOBRENOME | Zwissler |
| ASSINATURA | ZWISSLER L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Central Michigan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4567-8344 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Religiously Nonreligious
This project is based on fieldwork with members of The Satanic Temple (TST) in a mid-western, 'Bible-belt' state in the USA. Formed in 2013, TST identifies as a religion centered on eradicating Christian dominance of public space and is notorious for inserting a large Baphomet statue into debates around displays of Ten Commandments monuments. Members insist that TST is not a parody, but is a legitimate religion, with specific beliefs, ethical val…
Gendering the spiritual marketplace
In North American public space hard-policed tensions between secularity and religion in the public sphere nonetheless allow a third category of “spirituality” to flourish. The category of spirituality highlights the fuzziness of the public/private split and ambivalences about where religion is supposed to fall in the divide. In the West, the division historically relegated all non-economic transactions to the private, the traditionally feminine d…
Sex, Love, and an Old Brick Building
Whereas much literature focuses on ways that Christian discourses can perpetuate homophobia and transmisogyny, there is less scholarly attention focused on Christian groups that embrace people with diverse gender and sexual identities. As this article demonstrates, it is precisely because of their traditional marginalization that active inclusion of LGBTQ people may come to serve as a signifier of less institutionally oriented and more socially p…
N ew A ge, W icca, and P aganism
Related but distinct new religious movements originating in Britain and the United States—the New Age, Wicca, and Paganism—are responses to early anthropological theorizing and ethnographic engagements with both non‐Western cultures abroad and subcultures at home. They are the subject of current anthropological inquiry and sites of productive debates about the inherited colonial gaze, implicit Christian and androcentric roots of the field, method…
Religious, Feminist, Activist
In the Study of the Witch
This article examines historically competing categories of magic and religion and their gendered traces in the history of religious studies. On one hand, we have a genealogy that traces the term, "magic", back to an early modern European Christianity trying to understand itself through contrast with an imagined heresy that comes to be personified with a woman's face. On the other, we have contemporary political and religious communities that use …
Witches’ Tears
Contemporary Pagans have historically been invested in the idea of Paganism’s survival from pre-Christian times through the early modern witchcraft trials to the present, but the story takes on specifically gendered significance within spiritual feminism. The “Burning Times” complex of ideas combines stories of horrific and often sexualized torture with assertions that the true religion of persecuted Witches was not only Pagan, but traces back to…
And You Were There”
In a world of proliferating entertainment options and increasingly fragmented fandoms, The Wizard of Oz (1939) remains a rare touchstone of shared cultural familiarity. Yet, while film scholars and historians have examined the movie extensively, not so scholars interested in what relevance it holds for the academic study of religion. This paper serves as an introduction to a roundtable designed to begin redressing that omission. I argue, as the c…
Feminism and Religion
What is the relationship of religion in general, or of specific religions, to misogyny and the oppression of women? This article discusses Western feminism and religion, with a focus on North America, examining: 1) the relationship of religion to feminism as a political movement; 2) the role of feminism in religion, especially Western traditions; and 3) contributions of feminist criticism to the academic study of religion. The relationship betwee…
Pagan Pilgrimage
Burgeoning literature on sacred travel among contemporary Pagan and New Age communities draws on previous anthropological categories, but also offers new perspectives on important theoretical debates within pilgrimage studies. New religious movements' adherents often travel for spiritual purposes to places traditionally held as sacred by other, more established religious traditions or to places popularly understood as secular tourist sites. This …
Spiritual, But Religious
Based on ethnographic research with feminist political activists who identify as Catholic, United Church Protestant, or Neo-Pagan, this article examines the familiar distinction between ‘religion’ and ‘spirituality’. This contrast engages issues of secularization and the role of religions in the public sphere. In such a distinction, ‘religion’ is associated with institution and societal pressure, whereas ‘spirituality’ relates to personal experie…
Spiritual, But Religious
Based on ethnographic research with feminist political activists who identify as Catholic, United Church Protestant, or Neo-Pagan, this article examines the familiar distinction between ‘religion’ and ‘spirituality’. This contrast engages issues of secularization and the role of religions in the public sphere. In such a distinction, ‘religion’ is associated with institution and societal pressure, whereas ‘spirituality’ relates to personal experie…
In the Study of the Witch
This article examines historically competing categories of magic and religion and their gendered traces in the history of religious studies. On one hand, we have a genealogy that traces the term, "magic", back to an early modern European Christianity trying to understand itself through contrast with an imagined heresy that comes to be personified with a woman's face. On the other, we have contemporary political and religious communities that use …
Feminism and Religion
What is the relationship of religion in general, or of specific religions, to misogyny and the oppression of women? This article discusses Western feminism and religion, with a focus on North America, examining: 1) the relationship of religion to feminism as a political movement; 2) the role of feminism in religion, especially Western traditions; and 3) contributions of feminist criticism to the academic study of religion. The relationship betwee…
Pagan Pilgrimage
Burgeoning literature on sacred travel among contemporary Pagan and New Age communities draws on previous anthropological categories, but also offers new perspectives on important theoretical debates within pilgrimage studies. New religious movements' adherents often travel for spiritual purposes to places traditionally held as sacred by other, more established religious traditions or to places popularly understood as secular tourist sites. This …
Witches’ Tears
Contemporary Pagans have historically been invested in the idea of Paganism’s survival from pre-Christian times through the early modern witchcraft trials to the present, but the story takes on specifically gendered significance within spiritual feminism. The “Burning Times” complex of ideas combines stories of horrific and often sexualized torture with assertions that the true religion of persecuted Witches was not only Pagan, but traces back to…
Sex, Love, and an Old Brick Building
Whereas much literature focuses on ways that Christian discourses can perpetuate homophobia and transmisogyny, there is less scholarly attention focused on Christian groups that embrace people with diverse gender and sexual identities. As this article demonstrates, it is precisely because of their traditional marginalization that active inclusion of LGBTQ people may come to serve as a signifier of less institutionally oriented and more socially p…
Spiritual, But Religious
Based on ethnographic research with feminist political activists who identify as Catholic, United Church Protestant, or Neo-Pagan, this article examines the familiar distinction between ‘religion’ and ‘spirituality’. This contrast engages issues of secularization and the role of religions in the public sphere. In such a distinction, ‘religion’ is associated with institution and societal pressure, whereas ‘spirituality’ relates to personal experie…
Pagan Pilgrimage
Burgeoning literature on sacred travel among contemporary Pagan and New Age communities draws on previous anthropological categories, but also offers new perspectives on important theoretical debates within pilgrimage studies. New religious movements' adherents often travel for spiritual purposes to places traditionally held as sacred by other, more established religious traditions or to places popularly understood as secular tourist sites. This …
Feminism and Religion
What is the relationship of religion in general, or of specific religions, to misogyny and the oppression of women? This article discusses Western feminism and religion, with a focus on North America, examining: 1) the relationship of religion to feminism as a political movement; 2) the role of feminism in religion, especially Western traditions; and 3) contributions of feminist criticism to the academic study of religion. The relationship betwee…
And You Were There”
In a world of proliferating entertainment options and increasingly fragmented fandoms, The Wizard of Oz (1939) remains a rare touchstone of shared cultural familiarity. Yet, while film scholars and historians have examined the movie extensively, not so scholars interested in what relevance it holds for the academic study of religion. This paper serves as an introduction to a roundtable designed to begin redressing that omission. I argue, as the c…
Witches’ Tears
Contemporary Pagans have historically been invested in the idea of Paganism’s survival from pre-Christian times through the early modern witchcraft trials to the present, but the story takes on specifically gendered significance within spiritual feminism. The “Burning Times” complex of ideas combines stories of horrific and often sexualized torture with assertions that the true religion of persecuted Witches was not only Pagan, but traces back to…
N ew A ge, W icca, and P aganism
Related but distinct new religious movements originating in Britain and the United States—the New Age, Wicca, and Paganism—are responses to early anthropological theorizing and ethnographic engagements with both non‐Western cultures abroad and subcultures at home. They are the subject of current anthropological inquiry and sites of productive debates about the inherited colonial gaze, implicit Christian and androcentric roots of the field, method…
Religious, Feminist, Activist
In the Study of the Witch
This article examines historically competing categories of magic and religion and their gendered traces in the history of religious studies. On one hand, we have a genealogy that traces the term, "magic", back to an early modern European Christianity trying to understand itself through contrast with an imagined heresy that comes to be personified with a woman's face. On the other, we have contemporary political and religious communities that use …
Sex, Love, and an Old Brick Building
Whereas much literature focuses on ways that Christian discourses can perpetuate homophobia and transmisogyny, there is less scholarly attention focused on Christian groups that embrace people with diverse gender and sexual identities. As this article demonstrates, it is precisely because of their traditional marginalization that active inclusion of LGBTQ people may come to serve as a signifier of less institutionally oriented and more socially p…
Gendering the spiritual marketplace
In North American public space hard-policed tensions between secularity and religion in the public sphere nonetheless allow a third category of “spirituality” to flourish. The category of spirituality highlights the fuzziness of the public/private split and ambivalences about where religion is supposed to fall in the divide. In the West, the division historically relegated all non-economic transactions to the private, the traditionally feminine d…
Religiously Nonreligious
This project is based on fieldwork with members of The Satanic Temple (TST) in a mid-western, 'Bible-belt' state in the USA. Formed in 2013, TST identifies as a religion centered on eradicating Christian dominance of public space and is notorious for inserting a large Baphomet statue into debates around displays of Ten Commandments monuments. Members insist that TST is not a parody, but is a legitimate religion, with specific beliefs, ethical val…
Sociology (10 obras) · Religion and Society Interactions (7 obras) · Gender Studies (5 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Philosophy (5 obras) · Political science (5 obras) · Religious Tourism and Spaces (5 obras) · Art (4 obras) · Aesthetics (3 obras) · Archaeology (3 obras)