Embodied Practices: Negotiation and Resistance

McGuire, Meredith B.

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“…It also helps us to understand how they 'live' their religion (or secularism) (McGuire 2007; and to see that how they live it is not a static and fixed activity but is subject to readjustments, adaptations and realignments. As their emotional attachments to both the social and symbolic/material worlds in which they live shift and change over time, so too can their attachments to or detachments from certain religious symbols and material objects and from certain values and beliefs.…”

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Changing ‘emotional regimes’: their impact on beliefs and values in some older women

Eccles

2012

Journal of Beliefs & Values

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In common with a number of recent studies of religious change that have taken a gendered approach, this article takes older women as its focus and considers the role the emotions play in religious change, adopting Riis and Woodhead's new conceptual framework of religious emotion. Emotions, they argue, are not merely private, personal and subjective inner states. Rather, emotions are constructed in the interplay between social agents and structures, including those found within religion. They are also found in the ever-changing relations with complexes of cultural symbols and material settings. This triangulated relationship seldom remains static because the connections -and disconnectionsbetween self, society and symbols alter as emotional ordering is continuously produced and reproduced with adaptations to changing circumstances. They also argue, and as we shall see, the interaction of emotional regimes with power is an important part of the analysis. IntroductionAmong a number of gendered studies on religious change that have appeared recently Slee (2004) considers women's faith development and how that might differ from men's. Aune, Sharma, and Vincett (2008), Marler (2008) and Woodhead (2008), among others, have considered women and secularisation; Francis and Richter look at church leaving and returning, citing examples of both women and men Richter and Francis 1998), while Brown (2001 concentrates specifically on the cultural revolution of the sixties, and the role women played in shaping religious change. McLeod (2007) also looks at this period but sees other influences contributing to the transformations of that period as well as the changing nature of women's commitments. This article takes a different approach to religious change and women by considering the role of religious emotion. It focuses on four individuals, drawn from a study of 70 women (Eccles 2010) and thus can only be illustrative of particular situations rather than representative.

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Changing ‘emotional regimes’: their impact on beliefs and values in some older women

Eccles

2012

Journal of Beliefs & Values

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“…Embodied spiritual practices occur in several forms. Gardening is an example of one such practice (McGuire ). Gardeners may feel spiritually present while mindfully working with the earth and appreciating the beauty of nature.…”

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Transforming Spirituality in Artistic Leisure: How the Spiritual Meaning of Belly Dance Changes Over Time

Kraus

2014

Scientific Study of Religion

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Studies show that different dimensions of religiosity change throughout the life course. Yet, we have little information about how spirituality that some people experience outside of formal religious organizations may change. The purpose of this study is to examine how spirituality associated with artistic leisure may emerge or decline over time. Drawing from two waves of semistructured qualitative interviews conducted five years apart, I examine how the spirituality dancers associate with belly dance changes over time and factors associated with those transformations. Rather than emerging, findings show that whether dancers instill belly dance with spirituality remains stable or decreases. Furthermore, much of the decrease in the spiritual meaning that dancers link to belly dance can be understood in the context of their changing involvement in the dance, different meanings they attach to belly dance, revisiting their personal beliefs about spirituality, and expanding their spiritual outlets.

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“…Dance is another artistic endeavor to which many practitioners attach spiritual meaning. Dance can be spiritually meaningfiil because it may serve as a form of prayer or worship (Wuthnow 2001(Wuthnow ,2003 and create feelings of community and connectedness (McGuire 2007). Dance can be spiritually meaningfiil because it may serve as a form of prayer or worship (Wuthnow 2001(Wuthnow ,2003 and create feelings of community and connectedness (McGuire 2007).…”

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“I Really Don’t Do It For The Spirituality”

Kraus

2013

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To what extent does spirituality play a role in artistic leisure? Utilizing semistructured interviews with 35 belly dancers in the United States, I demonstrate how, although many participants attach spiritual meaning to belly dance, there is a wide range in both the frequency and in the contexts in which people do so. Findings show that some dancers infuse belly dance with spiritual meaning almost every time they engage in the activity, but for most participants, spirituality does not make up the majority of their belly dance experiences. Many dancers rarely or never attach spiritual significance to belly dance. Furthermore, the context in which dancers attach spiritual meaning to belly dance varies. If dancers infuse belly dance with spirituality, they will most likely do so when they are dancing alone in their homes. Only dancers who associate belly dance with spirituality most of the time that they dance, experience spirituality when dancing outside their home, such as during performances or when teaching their dance students.

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Embodied Practices: Negotiation and Resistance

Cited by 33 publications

References 10 publications

Changing ‘emotional regimes’: their impact on beliefs and values in some older women

Changing ‘emotional regimes’: their impact on beliefs and values in some older women

Transforming Spirituality in Artistic Leisure: How the Spiritual Meaning of Belly Dance Changes Over Time

“I Really Don’t Do It For The Spirituality”

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