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      Popular cultural representations of postfeminist religiosity in the international christian fellowship: an analysis of the “Ladies Lounge 2021” webpage Translated title: Populärkulturelle Repräsentationen von Weiblichkeit im International Christian Fellowship: Eine Analyse der „Ladies Lounge“-Startseite

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          Femininity and female gender roles in conservative religious environments are highly disputed topics both within communities of faith and in sociological discourse. In light of social transformations of gender perceptions in the past decades, conservative Christians have had to reevaluate traditional understandings of womanhood in societies that have become steeped in popular culture and thoroughly mediatized. Taking this development as a point of departure, this article examines how femininity is represented in the International Christian Fellowship, particularly on its “Ladies Lounge” webpage. Advertising an annual event geared exclusively towards women, the website’s landing page contains images and text that we examine by means of visual and textual sequence analysis. Our research results reveal that women are depicted as sensually attractive and self-confidently professional while at the same time being relegated to an exclusively female sphere within (but not beyond) which they wield authority and influence. As such, femininity is represented as self-empowering, but only within a specific, postfeminist framework. This ambivalent depiction of women’s agency challenges conservative Evangelical values at the same time as it affirms them. In this sense, the study contributes the growing body of literature on gender and Evangelicalism.

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          Weiblichkeit und weibliche Genderrollen in konservativen religiösen Kontexten sind häufig debattierte Themen sowohl innerhalb religiöser Gemeinden als auch im soziologischen Diskurs. In Anbetracht sozialer Transformationen von Genderwahrnehmungen in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten sehen sich konservative Christ*innen gezwungen, traditionelle Verständnisse von Weiblichkeit in Gesellschaften zu reevaluieren, die durchweg mediatisiert und von Populärkultur geprägt sind. Der Beitrag nimmt diesen Prozess als Ausgangspunkt, um zu untersuchen, wie Weiblichkeit im International Christian Fellowship repräsentiert wird, speziell auf der Startseite der „Ladies Lounge“ Webseite. Diese bewirbt einen jährlichen Event, der sich ausschließlich an Frauen richtet; die Startseite beinhaltet Bilder und Text, die wir mit Hilfe von sequenzanalytischen Methoden untersuchen. Unsere Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Frauen als sinnlich-attraktiv und selbstbewusst-professionell dargestellt und gleichzeitig einer exklusiv weiblichen Sphäre zugeordnet werden, innerhalb derer sie Autorität und Einfluss besitzen (aber nicht darüber hinaus). Somit wird Weiblichkeit als selbstermächtigend dargestellt, allerdings nur innerhalb eines spezifischen, postfeministischen Rahmens. Diese ambivalente Repräsentation weiblicher agency stellt konservativ-evangelikale Werte einerseits auf den Kopf und bestätigt sie andererseits paradoxerweise. In diesem Sinne stellt der Artikel einen Beitrag zur wachsenden Literatur zu Gender und Evangelikalismus dar.

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                Contributors
                Maren.freudenberg@rub.de
                dunja.sharbatdar@rub.de
                Journal
                Z Religion Ges Polit
                Zeitschrift für Religion, Gesellschaft und Politik
                Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden (Wiesbaden )
                2510-1218
                2510-1226
                27 September 2021
                27 September 2021
                : 1-23
                Affiliations
                GRID grid.5570.7, ISNI 0000 0004 0490 981X, Centrum für Religionswissenschaftliche Studien, , Ruhr-Universität Bochum, ; Universitätsstr. 90a, 44789 Bochum, Germany
                Author information
                http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6866-0342
                http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4642-9913
                Article
                77
                10.1007/s41682-021-00077-x
                8475442
                34552af2-c7f0-40e1-a7a5-ed2c2d3d9aef
                © The Author(s) 2021

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                : 25 November 2020
                : 19 August 2021
                : 24 August 2021
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                Funded by: Ruhr-Universität Bochum (1007)
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                femininity,evangelicalism,gender,religion,representations,mediatization,popular culture,postfeminism,international christian fellowship,weiblichkeit,evangelikalismus,repräsentation,mediatisierung,populärkultur,postfeminismus

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