Gender, Sexuality and Religious Exit

Rethinking the Body, Politics and Methodologies

AvNella van den Brandt,Sarah-Jane Page

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Beskrivning

Gender and Religious Exit focuses on gendered experiences of moving away from religious traditions, communities or movements. It analyses and conceptualises not only the gendered aspects of leaving religion, but also raises questions about politics and embodiment and about intersecting issues of sexuality, ethnicity and race. The editors bring together chapters on religious exit from various disciplinary angles and include case studies from diverse geopolitical and national contexts including Spain, Italy, the UK, the Netherlands, Finland, Poland, Chile, Kyrgyzstan and Ireland. The contributors address a range of (former) religious contexts including Islam, Catholicism, Buddhism, Baha’i, Evangelical Churches and feminine spirituality. They demonstrate the multiplicity of ways of moving away from singular religious communities and cultures and the gendered processes involved. The book will be of interest to scholars of religion, anthropology, sociology, and gender studies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-10-26
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Gendering the Study of Religion in the Social Sciences
Antal sidor:296
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781041037170

Utforska kategorier

Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Nella van den Brandt is a Researcher of Religion, Gender and Race at the KU Leuven, Belgium.Sarah-Jane Page is a Professor at the University of Nottingham, UK. She is a sociologist of religion, specialising in gender and sexuality.

Innehållsförteckning

Part I: Introducing Gender and Religious Exit 1. ‘I Just Didn't Feel it’: Affective Routes of Religious Exit and Re-Enchantment through Feminine Spirituality 2. “One of the Things I Have Never Liked about the Catholic Church is the Role of Women in It”: Gendered Religious Exit Narratives of Bahá’ís in Ireland 3. Women on the Run? Mapping Geographical Variations in Female Religiosity in Italy Part 2: Troubling Terminology, Categories and Methods 4. Racialising and Religionising the Study of Religious Exit: Women Negotiating White Secular/Christian Normativity 5. I’ve Been There Too: A Feminist Insider Approach to Researching Religious Exit and Gender 6. On the limits of religious exit: Islam, secularity, and social change in Kyrgyzstan 7. Sealed Doors, Sliding Doors, No doors: Different Ways of Exiting Christianity and Entering Zen Buddhism in Italy Part 3: The Politics of Leaving: Conflict, Protest, Critique 8. Speaking Against Islam: Social and Political Participation after Moving Out of Religion in Spain 9. Slamming the Church Doors: Women’s Apostasies as Resistance to Catholic Power in Poland 10. Feeling In or Out: The Politics of Boredom in Christian Public Discourse in the Netherlands 11. Religious Organisations and Disaffiliation within Far-Right Catholicism in Chile Part 4: Moving Out: Trajectories of Trauma and Healing 12. Reclaiming the Self: Dutch Queer Narratives of Trauma, Religious Exit, and Empowered Sexual Agency 13. ‘The Threads of Purity Run Through It All, and There Is So Much Pain Attached’: British Millennials and the Legacy of Evangelical Purity Culture 14. Religious Exit and LGBTQIA+ Jehovah’s Witnesses: Identity, Heteronormativity and Recovery in the UK Index.