Gender and Postsecularity in Knowledge Production and Visual Culture
Published on 1. November 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
168 pages
978-1-915609-43-4 (ISBN)
Description
Essays exploring the intersections of gender and religion in postsecular knowledge production and visual culture. During the last three decades, religious practices have gained increased visibility on a global scale, while the concept of secularity--and its relationship to religion--has become an object of intense interdisciplinary debates internationally. While the secular and the religious previously had marginalized positions within the academic field of gender studies, we can now observe a growing interest in religion and spirituality within this area of study, as well as gender-based activism. This publication features essays by scholars in gender and religious studies that collectively reflect upon and develop interdisciplinary and transregional ideas about the intricate dynamics of secularity, religiosity, and gender. The texts explore the entanglements and borders of religions and secularities in everyday life, as well as in art, culture, and knowledge production. Situated in an understanding of religion as both a category of thought and a marker of identity, this book considers new approaches to exploring the dynamic relationships between religiosity, secularity, and gender. Copublished by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
14 COLOR ILLUS.
Dimensions
Height: 180 mm
Width: 115 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
144 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-915609-43-4 (9781915609434)
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Sabine Grenz is (assistant) professor for interdisciplinary Gender Studies at the University of Vienna, where she also serves as head of the Gender Research Office (Referat Genderforschung). Doris Guth is (assistant) professor for Gender Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Her current research interests are queer-feminism in contemporary art, visual culture and art in early modern times: queering religion, love as cultural practice, art and activism, university as a political field of gender. Boka En is currently completing their PhD on knowledge politics in LGBTIQ* movements at the University of Vienna. Fatma Uysal studied theater, film and media studies at the University of Vienna (Bachelor) and media culture and art theories at the University of Arts Linz (Master) and received her doctorate at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Doctorate).