Religion/Spirituality as a strategy to tackle every-day life issues? The cases of women using menstrual cups

ŽÁKOVÁ, Michaela. Religion/Spirituality as a strategy to tackle every-day life issues? The cases of women using menstrual cups. In 17th Annual Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions, Tartu, 25-29 June 2019. 2019.

Basic information

• Original name: Religion/Spirituality as a strategy to tackle every-day life issues? The cases of women using menstrual cups
• Authors: ŽÁKOVÁ, Michaela (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: 17th Annual Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions, Tartu, 25-29 June 2019, 2019.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Presentations at conferences
• Field of Study: 60304 Religious studies
• Country of publisher: Estonia
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: URL
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14210/19:00110091
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• Keywords in English: spirituality; personal crisis; women circles; negative interactions; forms of resistence; pragmatic strategies
• Tags: rivok
• Tags: International impact

Abstract

Based on the interviews with six participants who use menstrual cups as an ecological alternative to tampons and sanitary towels, the conference paper discusses the issues of how religious/ spiritual cosmologies and practices could tackle every-day life experiences and difficulties (e.g. caused by stigmatization of menstruation; conflicts with social institutions; identity crisis and frustration etc.) Additionally, conference contribution deals with the potential and limits of analytical categories ‘religious’ and ‘spiritual’ in the contemporary academic discourse too.

Links

• MUNI/A/1053/2018, interní kód MU: Name: Nové výzkumné metody v religionistickém výzkumu (Acronym: NOVYMREV)

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A