Religion & genderPub Date : 2021-06-23DOI: 10.1163/18785417-01101001
Seán Henry
{"title":"Women in British Buddhism: Commitment, Connection, Community, by Caroline Starkey","authors":"Seán Henry","doi":"10.1163/18785417-01101001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18785417-01101001","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":"48538555","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: 10.1163/18785417-01101007
C. Irby
{"title":"Reflections on the Promise and Challenge of Interdisciplinary Research on Gender and Religion","authors":"C. Irby","doi":"10.1163/18785417-01101007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18785417-01101007","url":null,"abstract":"In 2011, Religion & Gender emerged as a new journal poised to create a space for the increasing feminist interest in studies of religious life (Avishai and Irby 2017; Korte 2011). At this time, I was a doctoral student in Sociology on the precipice of my own intellectual journey in this scholarly area. While I had entered graduate school with an interest in gender and religion, a significant turning point in my professional trajectory also occurred in 2011 when I was partnered with Orit Avishai to organize a session at the 2012 American Sociological Association’s annual meeting on “Religion, Gender, and Sexuality.” At that time, the experience of reviewing papers and reading in the broader subfield to prepare discussant commentsmarked the beginning of a joint research project into thehistory of sociological scholarshipongender and religion, some of which I discuss below. Nearly a decade later, however, I was asked again to help organize a session of the same title at the same meeting which provides an illustrative comparison of changes in our field. On the ten-year anniversary of Religion &Gender, I take this opportunity to reflect on the promise and challenge of creating systemic research that speaks across disciplinary boundaries. As I look toward the horizon of the next decade of gender and religion scholarship, it’s important to step back and consider the intellectual history that brought us to the moment of the journal’s debut. For social scientists, including sociologists like myself, the subfield of gender and religion developed in earnest in the 1980s “when researchers turned to study women’s actual experiences with religion” (Avishai 2010:48). Previous studies of religion tended to ignore women’s experiences by assuming an androcentric bias, and the few studies on women and religion conducted at that time mostly focused on how it operated as a constraint and inhibited the potential of gender equality.While much of the research that emerged was explicitly feminist, the researchers felt that “religion was not high on the priority lists of issues to be examined by","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":"41357161","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: 10.1163/18785417-01101008
A. Keating
{"title":"Spiritual Activism, Pedagogies of the Sacred, and Social Change","authors":"A. Keating","doi":"10.1163/18785417-01101008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18785417-01101008","url":null,"abstract":"We, the women here, take a trip back deep into the self, travel to the deep core of our roots to discover and reclaim our colored souls, our rituals, our religion. We reach a spirituality that has been hidden in the hearts of oppressed people under layers of centuries of traditional god-worship. The vision of our spirituality provides us with no trap door solution, no escape hatch tempting us to “transcend” our struggle. We must act in the everydayworld.Words are not enough.Wemust perform visible and public acts that may make us more vulnerable to the very oppressions we are fighting against. But, our vulnerability can be the source of our power—if we use it. anzaldúa, 1981, 195","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":"42476375","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 : 2021-05-21DOI: 10.1163/18785417-BJA10003
J. Bowling, A. Mbugua, Sarah M. Piperato
{"title":"The Influence of Religion, Spirituality, and Purpose in Life for Resilience among Trans and Gender Diverse Individuals","authors":"J. Bowling, A. Mbugua, Sarah M. Piperato","doi":"10.1163/18785417-BJA10003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18785417-BJA10003","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Religion, spirituality, and purpose in life have benefits for mental and physical health, yet religious environments can be stigmatizing for trans and gender diverse (TGD) individuals. This study aimed to examine the influences of religion, spirituality and purpose in life for resilience among TGD individuals. This study included photo-elicited interviews (35 longitudinal interviews, 21 individuals) and surveys (n=108). Religious affiliation was significantly associated with increased levels of social support but was not significantly associated with other variables. Strategies found in themes from the qualitative analysis foster resilience strategies, including spirituality to overcome challenges, purpose in life, and social support. Yet strategies in the themes also utilize resilience strategies, including discrimination, strategies in response to discrimination, social support, and identity negotiation. As participants did make sense of religion and spirituality in how they conceived of their resilience, findings may inform therapeutic interventions and pastoral approaches.","PeriodicalId":92716,"journal":{"name":"Religion & gender","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42661480","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 : 2021-05-11DOI: 10.1163/18785417-BJA10002
E. Higgs
{"title":"Christianity, Coloniality, and Social Change: Everyday Ethics of the Two YWCA s of South Africa","authors":"E. Higgs","doi":"10.1163/18785417-BJA10002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18785417-BJA10002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":92716,"journal":{"name":"Religion & gender","volume":"11 1","pages":"39-61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47110922","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 : 2021-04-16DOI: 10.1163/18785417-BJA10001
Iuliana Cindrea-Nagy
{"title":"“… as the young girl told them so”","authors":"Iuliana Cindrea-Nagy","doi":"10.1163/18785417-BJA10001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18785417-BJA10001","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article explores the role of women and young girls in Old Calendarist communities in Romania and presents new sources relating to neglected history of the practice of incarceration in Orthodox monasteries in the region. The community developed into a spiritual mass movement that soon became the target of the secret police. Women played an important role within these communities in terms of membership but also in relation to the preservation of Old Calendarist ideas. Explored through the prism of the former secret police archival documents, these women were deemed dangerous and were accused of luring people into the Old Calendarist groups. In contrast to the extremely negative representation of these women that we find in contemporary Orthodox Church publications, police reports and popular press articles, the letters and postcards that they wrote from detention offer us an insight into the private life, personality and motivation of these women.","PeriodicalId":92716,"journal":{"name":"Religion & gender","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42211513","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 : 2020-10-19DOI: 10.1163/18785417-01002003
Marcella C. Clinard
{"title":"This Is Our Message: Women’s Leadership in the New Christian Right, by Emily Suzanne Johnson","authors":"Marcella C. Clinard","doi":"10.1163/18785417-01002003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18785417-01002003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":92716,"journal":{"name":"Religion & gender","volume":"10 1","pages":"213-216"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46565492","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}