Revaluing gender and religion in the anthropological debate of the Anthropocene: A critique on the threefold culture-nature-supernature divide
Source
Religions, 15, 2, (2024), article 218ISSN
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor
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Journal title
Religions
Volume
vol. 15
Issue
iss. 2
Languages used
English (eng)
Subject
Anthropology and Development StudiesAbstract
This study argues that current anthropological research on human–nature relatedness lacks an explicit focus on gender and religion. It brings to the forefront that most current studies in Anthropocene anthropology that move away from anthropocentrism and towards studying more-than-human relatedness imply a disregard of gender that concerns both the 'human' and the 'non-human' in their mutual relationships. Presuming that the concept of sociality does not distinguish between human and nonhuman, the authors believe, however, that expressions of gender in more-than-human social relatedness cannot be denied. Simultaneously, they state that Anthropocene scholarship, by conceiving a secular future for humans restoring their relatedness with nature, is inclined to leave the 'supernature' out and to ignore experiences and embodied practices of enchantment in the modern world. By reviewing the feminist anthropological literature on the nature-culture divide and exploring the potential of enchantment as a way out of the secular condition of anthropology, the authors aim to restore a focus on gender and religion in anthropological Anthropocene scholarship while also transcending the threefold nature-culture-supernature divide. This review offers the theoretical prelude and introduction to the contributions of the Special Issue "Gender, Nature and Religious Re-enchantment in the Anthropocene".
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