Secular Societies, Spiritual Selves?

Anna Fedele is Senior Researcher at the CRIA-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Portugal. Her research focuses on the intersections of gender and religion with a particular interest for ritual creativity and pilgrimage. She has done fieldwork in Southern Europe and Latin America about holistic spiritualities and Catholicism.Kim E. Knibbe is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Sociology of Religion at Groningen University, the Netherlands. She is currently directing the project 'Sexuality, Religion and Secularism' (funded by the Netherlands Foundation for Research, NWO). Previous research focused on Catholicism and spirituality in the Netherlands and on Nigerian Pentecostalism in Europe and the Netherlands.

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• Introduction: Spirituality, the Third Category in a Gendered Triangle1. Feminist Spirituality as Lived Religion: How UK Feminists Forge Religio-Spiritual Lives2. Goddess Spirituality in Italy: Secular and Spiritual – Two Sides of the Same Coin? 3. Healers, Missionaries and Entrepreneurs of the Feminine: The Secularization of Contemporary Women’s Spirituality4. The Sacred Feminine in Mexico’s Neopagan Women’s Circles5. The (B)earth of a Gendered Eco-Spirituality: Globally Connected Ethnographies Between Mexico and the European Alps6. Re-enchanted Selves: An Ethnography of Wild Woman Workshops in Belgium7. Gendering the Spiritual Marketplace: Public, Private and In-Between8. "God Wants Spiritual Fruits not Religious Nuts": Spirituality as Middle Way Between Religion and Secularism at the Marian Shrine of Fátima9. 'A Merely Private Activity': Spiritual Consumerism as a Way to Transform Gendered Relationships to Secular and Religious Authorities10. Is Yoga a Girl’s Thing?: A Case Study on Working Class Men Doing Yoga in Jail 11. "Things I Do Are Manifestations of Love": Queer Religiosities and Secular Spirituality Among Montreal PagansAfterword: To the Vagina Triangle and Beyond!