ABSTRACT

Initiated in October 2017 by a group of Muslim women in Turkey, the activism of Women in Mosques aims to increase public awareness regarding the gendered organization of the religious space. Turkey’s patriarchal religious and cultural dynamics exhibit a gender-segregated organization of the mosque area, which treats men as the primary religious audience while isolating women in limited spaces. Using online tools such as their website and social media pages, Women in Mosques encourages women to participate in their digital campaign to reveal experiences of marginalization in mosques through testimonials. In addition to exposing the gendered and spatial ideology of the mosque that subordinates women, Women in Mosques also endeavors to employ potential means of resistance by fostering digital solidarity. This paper aims to analyze the bodily and digital strategies of women resisting the spatial organization of the religious space as a field of power. In this regard, the mapping of religious spaces through the representation of ideological spatiality and cartography constitutes the major strategies applied by activists to tackle the patriarchal making of the religious space.

摘要

由土耳其的一群穆斯林妇女于 2017 年 10 月发起的“清真寺妇女行动”旨在提高公众对宗教空间的性别化组织的认识。土耳其的父权宗教和文化动态展示了清真寺地区的性别隔离组织，该组织将男性视为主要的宗教受众，同时将女性隔离在有限的空间内。Women in Mosques 使用在线工具（例如他们的网站和社交媒体页面）鼓励女性参与他们的数字运动，通过推荐来揭示清真寺被边缘化的经历。除了揭露从属于女性的清真寺的性别和空间意识形态外，清真寺中的女性还努力通过促进数字团结来利用潜在的抵抗手段。本文旨在分析女性抵制作为权力场域的宗教空间的空间组织的身体和数字策略。在这方面，通过意识形态空间性和地图学的表现来绘制宗教空间的地图构成了活动家们用来解决宗教空间的父权制的主要策略。