Revaluing Gender and Religion in the Anthropological Debate of the Anthropocene
A Critique on the Threefold Culture-Nature-Supernature Divide
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3328404 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Catrien Notermans (0000-0003-3752-0264, Radboud University Nijmegen, corresponding author), A Tonnaer (0000-0003-0804-369X, Radboud University Nijmegen) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 218 |
| Publication date | 2024-02-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel15020218 |
| OpenAlex | W4391823304 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 36 |
This study argues that current anthropological research on human-nature relatedness lacks an explicit focus on gender and religion. It brings to the forefront that most current studies in Anthropocene anthropology that move away from anthropocentrism and towards studying more-than-human relatedness imply a disregard of gender that concerns both the 'human' and the 'non-human' in their mutual relationships. Presuming that the concept of sociality does not distinguish between human and nonhuman, the authors believe, however, that expressions of gender in more-than-human social relatedness cannot be denied. Simultaneously, they state that Anthropocene scholarship, by conceiving a secular future for humans restoring their relatedness with nature, is inclined to leave the 'supernature' out and to ignore experiences and embodied practices of enchantment in the modern world. By reviewing the feminist anthropological literature on the nature-culture divide and exploring the potential of enchantment as a way out of the secular condition of anthropology, the authors aim to restore a focus on gender and religion in anthropological Anthropocene scholarship while also transcending the threefold nature-culture-supernature divide. This review offers the theoretical prelude and introduction to the contributions of the Special Issue "Gender, Nature and Religious Re-enchantment in the Anthropocene
Anthropocene · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Sociology · Anthropology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Philosophy · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics
Feminist Ecologies
Ecologies of Gender
The Nutmeg's Curse
A Capacious Account of Liberal Feminism
The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Gender and Society
Secular Societies, Spiritual Selves
Women and Nature
Gender and Power in Contemporary Spirituality
Routledge Handbook of Gender and Environment
Anthropology and Nature
Beyond Nature and Culture
Staying with the Trouble
Climate change vulnerability, impacts, and adaptation
Virtue and vulnerability
The cultural representation of the farming landscape
Women/chickens vs. men/cattle
Uncanny Ecologies
Animal Intimacies
The Social Life of Spirits
Against the Anthropocene. A Neo-Materialist Perspective
The Gender and Environment Debate
Val Plumwood's Philosophical Animism
The Genders of Waves
Undisciplining the study of religion
Introduction
Prayers of Cow Dung
The Mushroom at the End of the World
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |