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International Conference
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Religious Pluralism: Uncovering Gender 8-10 September 2010 FREE ADMISSION Following the due course of globalization, transnationalisation
and migration, ideas about religious pluralism have been widely diffused
within academic circles over the past years. Although studying changing
religious realities in terms of pluralism is currently a hot topic in
the social sciences and humanities, looking at religious systems with
a gender focus is still a relatively new perspective - and a neglected
one. Keynote Speakers Thematic structure of the conference Session I: How to Study Gender and Religion. Methodological Challenges and Concepts The first session discusses the intersection between gender and religion from the perspective of various methodological and conceptual questions. The papers explore how analytical tools that have emerged from gender theories can enlighten social studies on religion, religiosity and religious actors - and vice versa. This session will also focus on the (historical) intersection of the concepts of gender and religion, their expanding interpretation and the links between academic and wider public discourses. Hereby, we compare and contrast methodological and conceptual questions that arise from various disciplinary traditions. Session II: Doing Religion? Doing Gender? Religious and Gendered Boundary Making under Conditions of Globalization and Transnationalisation This session discusses the articulation of gender and religion from the theoretical perspective of "boundary making." The focus lies on all forms of religious and gendered boundary making and on religious and gendered self-identification and external categorizations. At the same time, we are interested in papers discussing the question of the "performative nature" of gender and religion: religious and gender categorizations are actively (re)produced, (re)appropriated and modified by a large spectrum of actors (among others: individuals, media, nation-states, etc). Session III: Embodying Religion and Gender. Looking at Interactions between Gender, Religion and Physicality Understanding religion and gender as products of performative activities may shape the view of these actions on the physical level and may stress questions about the social and cultural significance of the body in the interaction between gender concepts and religious systems: What connections between gender concepts and social constructions of the human body can be found in religious systems? What role do they take on? And how can they be clarified through scientific approaches? Session IV: The Social Organization of Difference
through Religion and Gender Organiser Venue Contact and Registration
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