208 P -
Flower Children, Pagans and Skinny Dippers: Alternative Spiritualities
Saturday, June 3, 2017: 10:15 AM-11:45 AM
BRESL 29 (Hofstra University)
Chair:
Kathi Kern, University of Kentucky
Session Abstract
This panel focuses on various ways individuals respond to, mold, and utilize spirituality to advocate for their beliefs. One study explores how the The Farm commune shaped a feminine identity for the women of The Farm that sought not only to re-spiritualize motherhood, but that stood in direct opposition of the medical community of the time and “square” feminist thinking. The second study looks at transgender inclusion in American Paganism by exploring historical context as a means to better understand gender ideology and to relate it to the current debate about transgender inclusion. The third study conducts a comparative analysis of two spiritual memoirs written by women who grew up in the conservative evangelical subculture of the 1980s and 1990s in the United States to argue that for women, religion is a site in which the possibilities and the peril of the crossing of boundaries is done in order for women to find in their respective religions both a home and a means of “making home.” The fourth study examines Durham, North Carolina's 1986 gay pride march and reveals how local activists fought to claim their identities as gay and lesbian Christians despite a strong fundamentalist backlash.
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