Religion and Gender Journal

Religion and Gender is the first peer-reviewed, international journal for the systematic study of gender and religion in an interdisciplinary perspective.

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2/2 economic, cultural, and spiritual capital. Sitar notes that one main reason for participation is women’s search for personal empowerment as an alternative to the shame and sexism that characterise experiences with menstruation.

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1/2 How do gatherings in Slovenia's Red Tent movement navigate issues of inclusivity?

Polona Sitar's article "Class Privilege and Spiritual Capital: The Case of Feminist-Spiritualist Menstrual Movement the Red Tent in Slovenia" explores how access to these spaces is shaped by

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2/2 non-Western and non-European experiences, recognising atypical mothering performed by men and non-biological mothers, whilst seeking to critically reflect on a gender focus within mothering research.

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#CallforPapers

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1/2 CALL FOR PAPERS!

On behalf of Rowena Robinson and Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor, we're circulating the call for papers for "The politics of parenting: Reimagining gender and belief", a provisionally accepted Special Issue of Religion and Gender.

This issue will include...

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2/2 across the world, it examines the importance of bodies and embodiment issues in understanding entanglements of gender, sexuality, religion, and politics.

Read the #OpenAccess introduction to our new issue below!

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1/2 We're excited to announce that our latest volume is now out! 🎉

Volume 15, Issue 3 is a Special Issue on "Religion, Gender and Embodied Politics", edited by @ManuCarpenedo, @gi_albe and @JMartinezArino. Featuring case studies about different religious traditions...

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2/2 influence from the early Huguenot period to the French Réveil. Ma's review highlights Sigg's use of archival sources, from correspondence to missionary society records, and how these bring to life the voices of these women.

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https://t.co/E6mpCtHfqM

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1/2 What was the role of women in the 19th century revivalist movement, the French Protestant Réveil?

Tianji Ma's book review of Michèle Miller Sigg's "Birthing Revival: Women and Mission in Nineteenth-century France" explores how Sigg traces the evolution of Protestant women’s

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2/2 creatively and how Hindu, Jain, Buddhist, and Sikh texts offer new acumens. They can broaden gender theoretical frameworks, deepening our understanding of gender through reflections on religiosity, epistemology, and ethics.

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1/2 This week's spotlight is Veena R. Howard's "Broadening Horizons: Hindu and Jain Texts and Debates on Gender Fluidity and Gender Hybridity"!

In this #OpenAccess article from our 10 year anniversary issue in 2021, Howard highlights the importance of reading questions of gender

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2/2 on interviews about women-centred spiritualities. García Jouve proposes the term 'gender eclecticism' to approach the diverse notions about 'gender' that appear in some women-centred practitioners' testimonies.

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1/2 We're spotlighting Alex García Jouve's article "Gender Eclecticism: Beyond Gender Essentialism and Gender Constructivism in Discourses and Practices among Women-Centred Spiritualities Practitioners in Spain"!

The article explores the 'gender essentialism' debate, focusing...

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2/2 book review editors, directly at [email protected].

For some inspiration, check out Daniel N. Gullota's book review of Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's "A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism": https://t.co/ILS82C7VBY

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1/2 Are you interested in contributing to one of our upcoming issues? Then consider submitting a book review to us!

Although we have a range of books available, you can also review a book not on our list. If you're interested, reach out to @LucySpoliar and Jing-Yi Magraw, our..

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3/3 communities. Recognising that Scripture can be a source of both harm and healing, the article returns to the Song of Songs and Psalms to recover and reclaim alternate and unhappy, gendered and sexual scripts.

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1/3 How does the promise of married happiness operate as a disciplinary device within Australian evangelicalism?

@Roie and Erin Martine Hutton explore this question in their article "‘Your Unhappiness Is Sinful’: Using a Happiness-via-Marriage Script to Regulate Gender and...

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2/3 Sexuality in Australian Evangelical Faith Communities".

They argue that the use of Scripture to promote gender 'complementary' models of marriage as necessary for lived Christianity and human flourishing maintains the dominance of this heteronormative script in evangelical

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2/2 Soliman highlights the artists' feeling disappointed by the mainstream public, and an agitational orientation as these artists intend to offer alternative self-representations that target the mainstream public.

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1/2 How can German Muslim women's artistic self-representation and their public engagement be seen as counterpublics?

Asmaa Soliman explores this question in this week's article spotlight: "Muslim Women’s Self-Representation in Art: Offering Alternative Counterpublics"...

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2/2 Catholicism and migration. Moreover, Napolitano's book explores how these themes can highlight the lived experiences and affects of bodies in different spaces.

Read the full review below!

https://t.co/TtqdmVSx74

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1/2 What relation does Rome's Catholicism have with transnational migration?

Kayla E. Green's book review of Valentina Napolitano's "Migrant Hearts & the Atlantic Return: Transnationalism and the Roman Catholic Church" examines Naplitano's insights into this intersection of...