'The city's other face': Postsecular feminism and the creation of sacred space by women in Kurdish Turkey

Geographers have examined how sacred spaces are made spiritually meaningful through embodied practice. This paper brings together scholarship on post-secular feminism and geographies of religion to develop a theory of non-subversive power in the sacred space literature. This paper demonstrates how K...

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Vydáno v:Social & cultural geography Ročník 24; číslo 7; s. 1224 - 1241
Hlavní autoři: Altay, Saadet, Clark, Jessie
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Abingdon Routledge 09.08.2023
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Témata:
agencia
agency
agentivité
consagración
Embodiment
espacio sagrado
Feminism
feminismo post-secular
Feminist theory
femmes kurdes
féminisme post-séculier
Geographers
incarnation
Islam
Kurdish people
kurdish women
lieu sacré
Literature
Middle Eastern cultural groups
mujeres kurdas
postsecular feminism
Power
Prayer
Religion
Sacred space
Sacredness
Secularism
Women
Turkey
ISSN:1464-9365, 1470-1197
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Shrnutí:Geographers have examined how sacred spaces are made spiritually meaningful through embodied practice. This paper brings together scholarship on post-secular feminism and geographies of religion to develop a theory of non-subversive power in the sacred space literature. This paper demonstrates how Kurdish women create sacred space through embodied Islamic mystical practices in Kurdish Turkey and how these practices carve out a space for creative existence within and alongside state and masculinist systems of power, not against. Using a post-secular feminist framing and building on conversations of power in the sacred space literature, we show how the formation of sacred space forms the feminine subject and constitutes an act of feminine agency. Specifically, we focus on two material and sacred sites: private communal prayer houses and public tomb sites used for communal petitions. In these spaces, women organize and lead collective and embodied meditations and petitions that centre their desires, concerns, and wishes in a common register to create, following Saba Mahmood, a 'politics in unusual places'.
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ISSN:1464-9365
1470-1197
DOI:10.1080/14649365.2022.2052167