Advanced search
1 file | 238.05 KB Add to list

Re-envisioning female power : wildness as a transformative re-source in contemporary women’s spirituality

Carine Plancke (UGent)
Author
Organization
Abstract
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.
Keywords
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

Downloads

  • Plancke Nova Religio 2020.pdf
    • full text (Published version)
    • |
    • open access
    • |
    • PDF
    • |
    • 238.05 KB

Citation

Please use this url to cite or link to this publication:

MLA
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.
APA
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
Chicago author-date
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.
Chicago author-date (all authors)
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.
Vancouver
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.
IEEE
[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.
@article{8653747,
  abstract     = {{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.}},
  author       = {{Plancke, Carine}},
  issn         = {{1092-6690}},
  journal      = {{NOVA RELIGIO-JOURNAL OF ALTERNATIVE AND EMERGENT RELIGIONS}},
  keywords     = {{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}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{3}},
  pages        = {{7--30}},
  title        = {{Re-envisioning female power : wildness as a transformative re-source in contemporary women’s spirituality}},
  url          = {{http://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2020.23.3.7}},
  volume       = {{23}},
  year         = {{2020}},
}

Altmetric
View in Altmetric
Web of Science
Times cited: