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- Title
WOMEN'S RELIGIONS IN THE MISTS OF AVALON: MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY'S POSTSECULAR FANTASY.
- Authors
Budruweit, Kelly
- Abstract
This article re-examines the relative roles of religion and feminism in Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon (1982). Whereas previous critics have descried an incomplete feminist project overcome by the capitulation to Christianity, the supposed 'capitulation' can be re-interpreted as an investment in a heterodox, esoteric form of religious truth. The article further considers how these religious explorations contribute towards theorizations of the postsecular, by means of heterodox challenges to neat divides between the secular and the religious. As a whole, Bradley's postsecular fantasy revises the presumed equivalence between secularity and skepticism; instead, the novel offers a plea for the continued acknowledgement of religious mysteries.
- Subjects
BRADLEY, Marion Zimmer, 1930-1999; MISTS of Avalon, The (Book); POSTSECULARISM in literature; FEMINISM &; religion; RELIGIOUS mysteries in literature
- Publication
Religion & Literature, 2019, Vol 51, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0888-3769
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/rel.2019.0002