Religion, kvinnor och den reproduktiva kroppen

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ID6131172
AuthorsMarja-Liisa Keinänen (Stockholm University, corresponding author)
Year1998
Volume19
Issue3-4
Pages16-27
Publication date1998-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTidskrift för genusvetenskap (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1654-5443 • E-ISSN: 2001-1377
PublisherAmnesforeningen for genusvetenskap (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.55870/tgv.v19i3-4.4513
OpenAlexW1583006792
LanguageEN
References cited11

Religion, women and the reproductive body Previous research in religion has seldom studied physiological childbirth as a religious experience. This is partly due to the intellectualising legacy of the discipline which has regarded bodily practices as secondary to linguistic. The disciplinary concept of the 'sacred' also tends to emphasise transcendental and abstract qualities, thereby excluding phenomena that are associated with the body and materia from the sphere of the sacred. This is particularly so in the case of the female body which often has been looked upon as profane and impure. I will show how, mainly in the Finnish scholarly context, this dichotomous pattern of thought with its body/soul and magic/religion divisions has affected the study of childbirth rituals. I also intend to show what sort of femininity and embodiment these scholarly discourses have produced. Finally, I wish to show how women in the northern Russian Orthodox area have regarded their reproductive bodies; how they have reinterpreted the establishment traditions that associated them with sin and impurity and have instead sought to construct a positively understood femininity grounded in their ancient traditions of childbirth

Aesthetics · Childbirth · Context (archaeology · Discipline · Epistemology · Femininity · Pregnancy · Social science · Sociology · Soul · Spirituality · Transcendental number · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices

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