A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä
Gendered and Embodied Un/learning among Women Disengaging from Faith in the UK and Finland
Tekijät: Brandt Nella van den, Rantala Teija
Kustantaja: Donner-instituutti
Julkaisuvuosi: 2024
Journal: Approaching Religion
Tietokannassa oleva lehden nimi: Approaching Religion
Vuosikerta: 14
Numero: 2
Aloitussivu: 224
Lopetussivu: 239
eISSN: 1799-3121
DOI: https://doi.org/10.30664/ar.137195
Verkko-osoite: https://journal.fi/ar/article/view/137195
Rinnakkaistallenteen osoite: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/393408478
Women often embody the central values and practices of their religious tradition. When they leave their community, women find a part of the “religious tapestry” remaining with them long after their disengagement. In this article, we draw from research in the UK and Finland to explore women’s efforts to unlearn parts of their former religious belonging. We draw on in total thirty-five interviews with women who disengaged from the Mormon Church, Jehovah’s Witnesses and Conservative Laestadianism. We conceptualize un/learning as a multi-layered process consisting of both un-learning and re-learning. We explore women’s narratives about negotiating bodily limits, conduct and belonging, and understand these as suggesting experiences of a threefold un/learning: gendered, spatial-social and epistemic. We argue that examining gendered and embodied un/learning helps to understand women’s disengagement processes from minority Christian traditions in Western and Northern European secularized contexts such as the UK and Finland.
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