Witches, pagans, and priestesses: women-centered spiritualities in the Spanish context

This research arises from a central question: how do women-centered spiritualities in the Spanish context relate to current societal debates challenging gender binaries and cultural appropriation? My aim is to approach the complexity of the Spanish religious landscape and specifically the case of wh...

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Author: García Jouve, Alex
Format: doctoral thesis
Publication Date:2026
Country:España
Institution:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repository:Docta Complutense
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/131379
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/131379
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:2-055.2(043.2)
Religión (Humanidades)
Antropología (Sociología)
Religión (Sociología)
Feminismo
5101 Antropología Cultural
6301 Sociología Cultural
6301.10 Sociología de la Religión
5906 Sociología Política
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Summary:This research arises from a central question: how do women-centered spiritualities in the Spanish context relate to current societal debates challenging gender binaries and cultural appropriation? My aim is to approach the complexity of the Spanish religious landscape and specifically the case of what I call here women-centered spiritualities. This is a phenomenon not widely studied in Spain that, nevertheless, can greatly contribute to academic debates around gender in contemporary spiritualities, as well as to the controversy surrounding the concept of cultural appropriation. Moreover, both issues are perhaps too dependent on the (otherwise) abundant specialized Anglo-Saxon literature on the subject. A fact that I aim to help remedy with this work...