Tradire è un po' morire...Oggi. La aspetta nel buio, coi fari spenti e il motore acceso. Non appena la vede correre oltre la curva, Christian accelera, la investe, si ferma. Poi ingrana la retromarcia e passa di nuovo sopra il corpo della moglie. Deve essere sicuro di averla uccisa, altrimenti non sarà mai libero. Christian torna a casa, ma si rende conto che l'incubo non è finito. È appena cominciato…Due mesi prima. Christian dovrebbe esse...

This edited volume explores the intersection of spirituality with childbirth from 1800 to the present day from a comparative perspective. It illustrates how over this time period in much of the world, traditional practices, home births, and midwives have been overshadowed and undermined by male dominated obstetrics, hospitalization, and ultimately the medicalization of the birthing process itself.

*Secular Societies, Spiritual Selves?*is the first volume to address the gendered intersections of religion, spirituality and the secular through an ethnographic approach.The book examines how ‘spirituality’ has emerged as a relatively ‘silent’ category with which people often signal that they are looking for a way to navigate between the categories of the religious and the secular, and considers how this is related to gendered ways of being and relating. Using a lived religion app...

This book explores the entanglements of gender and power in spiritual practices and analyzes strategies used by spiritual practitioners to attain what to social scientists might seem an impossible goal: creating spiritual communities without creating gendered hierarchies.What strategies do people within these networks use to attain gender equality and gendered empowerment? How do they try to protect and develop individual freedom? How do gender and power nevertheless play a role? T...