Religion & genderPub Date : 2021-06-23DOI: 10.1163/18785417-01101013
Kathrine van den Bogert
{"title":"Towards an “Un-disciplined” Study of Muslim Women, Gender, Religion, and the Secular","authors":"Kathrine van den Bogert","doi":"10.1163/18785417-01101013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18785417-01101013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":92716,"journal":{"name":"Religion & gender","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41610669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Religion & genderPub Date : 2021-06-23DOI: 10.1163/18785417-01101012
Adriaan van Klinken
{"title":"Religion, Gender and the Pluriversity","authors":"Adriaan van Klinken","doi":"10.1163/18785417-01101012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18785417-01101012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":92716,"journal":{"name":"Religion & gender","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47703529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Religion & genderPub Date : 2021-06-23DOI: 10.1163/18785417-01101006
Karina Felitti
{"title":"Towards New Research Agendas in Latin America in Times of the Green Tide","authors":"Karina Felitti","doi":"10.1163/18785417-01101006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18785417-01101006","url":null,"abstract":"Since 1980,women’s, feminist and lgbtmovements/organizations haveplayed a very important role in Latin America, since they entangled their demands concerning sexual freedomwith a wider human rights agenda and other social movements that claimed for social justice. The beginning of the twenty-first century opened aprocess of transformationwith the vastmajority of the region governed by executives that identified themselves in the left of the political spectrum. In some cases, this “Pink Tide” engaged with sexual movements and supported sexual and reproductive rights advances that were also challenged by conservative actors (Friedman, 2018). The role played by conservative religious activisms in sexual politics, specifically the obstacles they established regarding divorce, comprehensive sexual education, same-sex marriage, contraception and abortion, has encouraged the emergence of several studies exploring thesemovements’ public intervention strategies. Some of these studies demonstrated how the secularization of law has been established through an imbrication process in which law translates and conserves Catholic sexual morality into secular regulations (Vaggione, 2018). More recently, the globalization of anti-gender movements that battle against “gender ideology” led to research on their involvement in national politics and their performances in the public space (Sexual PolicyWatch, 2020). Argentina is a clear example of this process with a number of legislations and public policies regarding comprehensive sex education, gender identity, equal marriage, contraception and abortion, which were finally legalized in December 2020. In 2018, while the National Congress debated this issue, thousands of people across the country organized massive public demonstration and started to wear the green handkerchief that is the symbol of the National Campaign for the Right to a Safe, Legal and Free Abortion, an object that is also connected with the white handkerchief of Madres de Plaza de Mayo. This movement was called the Green Tide (Marea Verde) and has been expanded","PeriodicalId":92716,"journal":{"name":"Religion & gender","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45807268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Religion & genderPub Date : 2021-06-23DOI: 10.1163/18785417-01101002
Eline Huygens
{"title":"Humble Women, Powerful Nuns: A Female Struggle for Autonomy in a Men’s Church, by Kristien Suenens","authors":"Eline Huygens","doi":"10.1163/18785417-01101002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18785417-01101002","url":null,"abstract":"century: a life of endless chaos, multiple exiles, and relocations. Given present-day scholarship of the psychology of migrants in general and, more particularly, of refugees and exiles, Martín’s accounts invite further study. Other topics include the peculiarly Spanish context requiring Martín’s astute navigation between loyalist Carlists, extreme integralists, and liberal nationalists (383). Martín’s visceral, bitter reaction to the end of Spain’s empire following the Spanish-American War might usefully be read alongside John McGreevy’s final chapter (“Manila, Philippines: Empire”) in American Jesuits and the World: How an Embattled Religious Order Made Modern Catholicism Global (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016). Beyond Spain, at exactly the same moment (1899–1901), Martín had to address France’s political earthquake following the Dreyfus Affair. Judging that Jesuits’ “efforts to protest our innocence” against “the cruelest and vilest libels” had failed (723), Martín needed to guide French Jesuits through their exile abroad (once again) and the confiscation of their properties (once again). Finally, Martín spent the last weeks of his life navigating Pope Pius X and the Roman Catholic Modernist Crisis. One of his final acts was the expulsion of George Tyrrell from the Jesuit order. It is understandable that, although Martín seems to have wanted his “showing up” eventually to be published, in the near term he entrusted its safety not to the official archives in Rome (as would be expected for a superior general’s writings), but to archives in his home province. Its survival of censorship and civil war is remarkable, and Schultenover’s modified format in English translation significantly expands its accessibility for scholars across the globe. It is an invaluable resource for historians of nineteenth-century Spain, modernization and laicism, church-state conflict, religion and religious life, mentalities and emotions.","PeriodicalId":92716,"journal":{"name":"Religion & gender","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48229447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Religion & genderPub Date : 2021-06-23DOI: 10.1163/18785417-01101016
Andrea R. Jain
{"title":"The Study of Religion and Gender in the Time of Planetary Ecological Crisis and Pandemic","authors":"Andrea R. Jain","doi":"10.1163/18785417-01101016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18785417-01101016","url":null,"abstract":"As ReligionandGendermarks its twentieth anniversary, theCovid-19 pandemic is causing enormous suffering all over the world. In scholarship moving forward, we should address the forces behind that suffering as well as that related to devastating natural events, from flooding and hurricanes to tornadoes and forest fires, all of which are increasingly becoming the norm. This requires attention to how the slippages between ecological ethics, animal ethics, critical race theory, and feminist ethics make for major challenges in our academic andpublic debates by addressinghow the capitalist pursuit of profit andpower, resulting in rampant disregard for the natural world, non-human animals, people of color, andwomen, have simultaneously facilitated and been exacerbated by environmental devastation and pandemic. Why should scholars of religion and gender be concerned with questions regarding planetary ecology and non-human animals?When their habitats are destroyed, wild non-human animals are often forced into close contact with not only each other but alsowith humans. Increasingly, hunting animals occurs with the goal of profit.Wildlife trafficking is a growing industryworthbillions of dollars every year. Some of these animals are destined for wildlifemarkets with cruel andunhygienic conditions.The conditions of farmanimals, commodified for themeat and dairy industries, are equally cruel and often unhygienic. These conditions make it relatively easy for a virus or other pathogen to get transmitted from one species to another and to create a new disease. In fact, up to 75 percent of the new diseases emerging in humans, including Covid-19, are these zoonotic diseases. The same capitalist disregard for the natural world that has resulted in the proliferation of zoonotic diseases has also led to the greatest threat to life on this planet—climate change and the loss of biodiversity. The meat and dairy industries are highly dependent on fossil fuels, greatly increasing emissions of themain greenhouse gas, co2, and the animals themselves producehugequan-","PeriodicalId":92716,"journal":{"name":"Religion & gender","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46921860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Religion & genderPub Date : 2021-06-23DOI: 10.1163/18785417-bja10004
Abeera Khan
{"title":"The Violence of Essentialism","authors":"Abeera Khan","doi":"10.1163/18785417-bja10004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18785417-bja10004","url":null,"abstract":"During the 2017 London Pride parade, the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain (cemb) marched with placards emblazoned with slogans such as “Islam is homophobic,” “Allah is gay,” “End Islamic Hatred and Violence to Gays”, “Islamophobia is an oxymoron” and “East London Mosque incites murder of lgbts” (Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain 2017a). The organisation is the British branch of the Central Council of Ex-Muslims, a German association representing formerMuslims or “apostates”. cemb are a self-described group of “non-believers, atheists, and ex-Muslims” committed to “taking stand for reason, universal rights, and secularism” (Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain 2017b). Deliberately provocative, the intervention was made in the name of lgbt people subjugatedby anti-homosexuality lawsby countries under “Islamic rule” andbyMuslim homophobia in the UK. More broadly, cemb’s political mobilisations are motivated by their staunch belief of the threat that Islam in particular poses to universal rights, particularly women and lgbt rights. There are obvious queer feminist criticisms to be made of cemb’s articulations of queer secularity (Khan 2020), the questionable locations of homophobia (Rao 2014), and the exceptionalisation of gendered, homophobic and sexualised violence within the amorphous “Muslim community” (El Tayeb 2013; Farris 2017; Haritaworn 2015; Puar 2017). I want to forgo this line of critique and dwell instead on the essentialisms at the heart of this mobilisation of the religion/secular divide: the politics it effects and precludes. What can the violence of essentialism— both the violence it fixates on and the violence it inflicts—reveal about the relationship between religion and gender? I suggest that investigating essentialist mobilisations of religion and gender, not as analogy nor as comparison but as relational politics, may complicate our analyses of gender, religion, and their interconnections. The following year, another spectacle unravelled at the same setting, one under a different political register but bearing kindred essentialist claims. A lesbian group,Get the LOut, carried banners stating slogans such as “transactivism erases lesbians” and protesting alleged “anti-lesbianism” (Gabbatiss 2018). The","PeriodicalId":92716,"journal":{"name":"Religion & gender","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48246802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Religion & genderPub Date : 2021-06-23DOI: 10.1163/18785417-01101019
A. Korte, Nella van den Brandt
{"title":"Looking Back and Moving Forward","authors":"A. Korte, Nella van den Brandt","doi":"10.1163/18785417-01101019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18785417-01101019","url":null,"abstract":"Religion and Gender exists 10 years! Launched in 2011, Religion and Gender has established itself as the leading interdisciplinary journal for the study of gender and religion from interand transdisciplinary perspectives. As the journal editors, who worked hard to establish and run this journal throughout the years, we are happy and proud of having accomplished Religion and Gender’s 10th anniversary. We think this is an occasion to celebrate and pay attention to, firstly by giving many thanks to all authors who published in this journal during the past ten years. We are so grateful for their wonderful contributions!We could not have fulfilled this task, however, without the help of many of our colleagues, who acted as indispensable fellow editors, guest editors, advisers and/or peer reviewers. These colleagues, and the support they provide, have been crucial in guaranteeing the high quality and cutting edge-ness of the journal. Soweare very grateful to all of them, including themembers of the editorial board, for contributing to the quality and impact of the journal by gathering their networks, refereeing articles, and publishing their work.","PeriodicalId":92716,"journal":{"name":"Religion & gender","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42339125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}