Conjugating the Modern/ Religious, Conceptualizing Female Religious Agency

Contours of a `Post-secular' Conjuncture

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2352167
AutoresBracke (0000-0001-5644-547X, University of California, Santa Cruz, autor correspondente), Sarah Bracke (Utrecht University, University of California, Santa Cruz)
Ano2008
Volume25
Fascículo6
Páginas51-67
Data de publicação2008-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoTheory Culture & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0263-2764 • E-ISSN: 1460-3616
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0263276408095544
OpenAlexW2067165041
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas94
Referências citadas21

This article is concerned with thinking transformations of the secular, and does so in relation to two theoretical terrains, while empirically grounded in ethnographies of Christian and Islamic pious women in the Netherlands. A first theoretical terrain under consideration is that of how the relation between modernity and religion is elaborated, notably in secularization theories, and how these established frameworks are challenged by a different kind of articulation between modernity and religion that I observed in narratives and practices of young Evangelical and Islamic women in the Netherlands. The article traces the contours of a 'pious modern', showing how from a faith-centred perspective the modern can be incorporated and indeed produced. In this context, I argue that the way in which notions of modernization and secularization have been theoretically hinged on each other needs to be further revisited, and I propose to consider the 'post-secular' as a new disarticulation between the modern and the secular. A second theoretical terrain concerns questions of agency and subjectivity. Here I trace how situating religious agency in its own grammar makes secular assumptions in social, critical and feminist theory visible, and generates different understandings not only of agency but also of notions such as autonomy, and the capacity to act and shape the world

Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Autonomy · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Islam · Modernity · Modernization theory · Narrative · Political science · Relation (database · Secularization · Social science · Sociology · Subjectivity · Theology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development · Religious Education and Schools · Religious studies