Abstract The article is concerned with feminist spirituality. By analyzing narrative interviews with two spiritual feminists the article builds on and further develops three categories of feminist spirituality developed by Aune (2015): spirituality as de-churched, relational, practice-oriented. To complete the model a fourth category was established: intellectual engagement with academic knowledge and search for truth. The article provides insights into how the religious-secular binary has been bridged and the other three categories have been tied together in their narratives. Thus, the analysis provides a more complex and nuanced picture of spiritual feminists. The article also shows how spiritual feminists make use of a spiritual epistemology to deconstruct normative gender constructions. The article addresses four different debates: the debate on spiritual experiences, on women’s lived religiosity, gender dualisms and feminist relationality as well as the debate on the secular/religious binary in feminism.
Sabine Grenz (Thu,) studied this question.