Re-envisioning female power : wildness as a transformative re-source in contemporary women’s spirituality
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- Carine Plancke (UGent)
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- Bricolage, the mixing of diverse religious resources, has been highlighted as a key process in contemporary spiritualities. Since, in this process, historically or culturally distant and foreign traditions are self-referentially drawn upon as representatives of a true spirituality deemed lost in the materialistic West, exoticism has further been identified as its core feature. In this article, through an in-depth ethnographic study, I examine operations of bricolage and exoticism in spiritual women workshops in North Western Europe that focused on the trope of the "wild woman." In particular, I highlight the transformational power of these retreats in reference to Michael Taussig's notion of mimesis as a sensuous embodiment of imagined otherness. I argue that, through enacting wildness in their bodies, the participants were overtaken by their own-historically determined-imaginations of primitiveness and naturalness, which not only created new visions of the feminine and female power, but also led to important life changes.
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- feminist spirituality, alterity, bricolage, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, exoticism, feminist spirituality, gender, Jungian archetype, mimesis, primitivism, Tantra, wild woman, Women Who Run with the Wolves, NEW-AGE, TANTRISM
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8653747
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- Plancke, Carine. “Re-Envisioning Female Power : Wildness as a Transformative Re-Source in Contemporary Women’s Spirituality.” NOVA RELIGIO-JOURNAL OF ALTERNATIVE AND EMERGENT RELIGIONS, vol. 23, no. 3, 2020, pp. 7–30, doi:10.1525/nr.2020.23.3.7.
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- Plancke, C. (2020). Re-envisioning female power : wildness as a transformative re-source in contemporary women’s spirituality. NOVA RELIGIO-JOURNAL OF ALTERNATIVE AND EMERGENT RELIGIONS, 23(3), 7–30. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2020.23.3.7
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- Plancke, Carine. 2020. “Re-Envisioning Female Power : Wildness as a Transformative Re-Source in Contemporary Women’s Spirituality.” NOVA RELIGIO-JOURNAL OF ALTERNATIVE AND EMERGENT RELIGIONS 23 (3): 7–30. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2020.23.3.7.
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- Plancke, Carine. 2020. “Re-Envisioning Female Power : Wildness as a Transformative Re-Source in Contemporary Women’s Spirituality.” NOVA RELIGIO-JOURNAL OF ALTERNATIVE AND EMERGENT RELIGIONS 23 (3): 7–30. doi:10.1525/nr.2020.23.3.7.
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- 1.Plancke C. Re-envisioning female power : wildness as a transformative re-source in contemporary women’s spirituality. NOVA RELIGIO-JOURNAL OF ALTERNATIVE AND EMERGENT RELIGIONS. 2020;23(3):7–30.
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- [1]C. Plancke, “Re-envisioning female power : wildness as a transformative re-source in contemporary women’s spirituality,” NOVA RELIGIO-JOURNAL OF ALTERNATIVE AND EMERGENT RELIGIONS, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 7–30, 2020.
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